WFP's UNHAS Transports Emergency Telecommunications Team To The Remote Mountains Of Ile De La Gonave, Haiti
I arrived at the air base at 0730 for an 0830 departure on board a Bell 212 helicopter operated by Evergreen Aviation and chartered by the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS).
FITTEST team loading gear onto helicopter atop Isle de la Gonave.
I was traveling with one of WFP's emergency ICT teams, also known as a Fast IT and Emergency Telecommunications and Support (FITTEST) team, who were on there way to install a repeater at the top of a mountain on the Ile de la Gonave. The island is sparsely populated and lies approximately 75kms West-North-West of Port-au-Prince.
Source: WFP Logistics Blog
Read the full article here
