Donations were made through “Caritas of Puerto Rico” a Catholic Social Services Organization under the direction of the San Juan Archdiocese.
“The real strength of Caritas is its network of parishes that gives us direct contact with communities and a point from which we can provide help,” said Alistair Dutton, Humanitarian Director for Caritas International, who is leading the international coordination of the Caritas aid agencies response from Port-au-Prince.
Caritas has taken truck loads of aid to the earthquake-hit town of Léogâne, 30km outside of Port-au-Prince. A plane-full of tents, sheeting, medical tents and medicines arrived on Wednesday. This followed twenty truck-full of food and hygiene items and 80 containers of food arriving earlier in the week.
