MINNEAPOLIS – Target is sending 6,500 sanitation kits to Haiti by working with the American Refugee Committee, which has on-the-ground teams providing shelter, sanitation, and medical care. The kits contain anti-bacterial soap, latex gloves, swabs and bandages, pain relievers and cold medicine, toothpaste and toothbrush, shampoo/body wash, lip balm, lotion and more. These items help protect against the spread of infection and illness.
“Protection against germs and disease is one of the biggest concerns for the people of Haiti,” said Daniel Wordsworth, President and CEO of the American Refugee Committee, an international humanitarian aid agency headquartered in Minneapolis (www.arcrelief.org). “We are grateful to organizations like Target for providing supplies that help keep people clean, healthy and hydrated.”
American Refugee Committee doctors have set up a busy clinic in the Terraine D’Acra settlement, which has expanded to more than 5,000 people. The small medical team consists of three doctors from the U.S., assisted by a local Haitian doctor and four Haitian nurses. They see about 130 earthquake survivors each day, a third of them are children.
As infections are a growing problem, the doctors have also set up a small pharmacy to distribute medicine and medical supplies donated by companies in the United States.
