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Friday, June 27, 2025

Tri­nis leave for Haiti mer­cy mis­sion to­day

Cholera now a major threat

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With the death toll from Hur­ri­cane Matthew ris­ing in Haiti to 1,000 up to yes­ter­day, cholera spread­ing rapid­ly and the dead be­ing buried in mass graves, 22-year old Trinida­di­an Hadas­sah Hec­tor leaves brave­ly to­day for the rav­aged coun­try to as­sist in re­lief ef­forts.

Hec­tor, a full-time vol­un­teer with the NGO Is There Not A Cause (ITNAC) since age 13, leaves T&T with an­oth­er mem­ber, De­bra Dowlat, on be­half of the or­gan­i­sa­tion. They will be fol­lowed lat­er on by five oth­ers.

Hec­tor and Dowlat will spend two weeks in Haiti, fo­cussing on dis­tricts in the hard­est hit south­west re­gion like Les Cayes and Leoganne, where cholera has been spread­ing due to flood­wa­ters left in the wake of Matthew.

They will car­ry small amounts of sup­plies with them and enough funds to buy med­i­cine in Port-au-Prince to ad­min­is­ter to those need­ing it.

Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed jour­nal­ist Khamal Georges will al­so be trav­el­ling with the ITNAC to pro­vide cov­er­age of the af­ter­math of the hur­ri­cane.

He will be stay­ing for five days, where he will pro­vide dai­ly re­ports for both CNC3 and the T&T Guardian and he will pro­duce a 30-minute video di­ary of the re­cov­ery ef­forts on his re­turn home.

Hec­tor, niece of ITNAC head Avonelle Hec­tor, said she vis­it­ed Haiti af­ter Hur­ri­cane Ivan in 2008 and that would be her sixth vis­it to the poor­est coun­try in the Amer­i­c­as.

They will stay at an ITNAC base and be tak­en around by a bus the NGO bought for re­lief work in Haiti.

She said the NGO al­ready had a mo­bile med­ical clin­ic in Haiti and they would go around with Hait­ian doc­tors and nurs­es to ar­eas to help take re­lief to the sick.

They are al­so work­ing close­ly with Hait­ian cooks em­ployed by ITNAC to pro­vide cooked meals for those need­ing food. Hec­tor said there was not enough time to be afraid of any­thing.

ITNAC has been part­ner­ing with NGOs, FBOs and com­pa­nies to col­lect re­lief sup­plies for Haiti, in­clud­ing Guardian Me­dia Ltd, the T&T Crick­et Board, Bankers As­so­ci­a­tion, EIL In­dus­tries and a group of past pupils of Tran­quil­i­ty Gov­ern­ment.

T&T na­tion­als in the UK, US, Cana­da and the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates have al­so been co-or­di­nat­ing re­lief ef­forts with ITNAC.

Hec­tor said they have got­ten quite a lot of help for Haiti, es­pe­cial­ly in the form of food sup­plies, toi­letries and chil­dren's cloth­ing.


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