The Dominican Republic government is pulling out all the stops for its neighbour, and already arrived in Port-au-Prince are 10 mobile kitchens with 50,000 food rations, 39 truckloads of food, 46 doctors including 10 trauma specialists, 8 mobile clinics, 8 ambulances. This might not sound much but it is a lot from a poor country like us. Today and tomorrow have been designated days of national mourning and all flags are at half mast.
The charity ShelterBox will be bringing in 1000 boxes, containing tents, stoves etc for 10,000 people and the first ones have already arrived at Santo Domingo which is our closest airport to the border, as Port-au-Prince airport is very small and full of military traffic.
I am pleased to say that past tensions between our countries have been forgotten in the face of this disaster.
