
Members of the World Food Programme’s emergency response telecommunications team use satellite.
One of these agencies is World Food Programme emergency telecommunications personnel who have set-up an Inter Agency cybercafé to provide email access to the humanitarian community. The UN NGO partner Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is offering similar services and providing free, three-minute phone calls to Haitians in the aftermath of last week’s devastating earthquake.

Télécoms Sans Frontières set up call centers in Port-au-Prince.
The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation support the deployment of these two emergency telecommunications teams to support the UN’s ability to quickly deliver emergency aid, and to provide a valuable service to communities affected by disaster.

Dr. Dan Carucci, UN Foundation’s Vice President for Global Health, joins UN field workers.

