Kinship Circle: Mexico Staging Area – Volunteers, Supplies Needed Now
November 12th, 2007 3:31 pm by Kelly Garbato———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Nov 11, 2007 11:04 PM
Subject: Mexico Staging Area – Volunteers, Supplies Needed Now
KINSHIP CIRCLE ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF
PLEASE CROSSPOST EVERYWHERE, AS WRITTEN
RELIEF GLOBAL
11/11/07: [UPDATE!] Mexico Staging Area – Volunteers, Supplies Needed Now
KINSHIP CIRCLE’S DISASTER VICTIMS SITE:
www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/
PHOTO, Rich Crook, Best Friends Rapid Response Manager: Day Three (part two)
network.bestfriends.org/mexicofloodrescue/news/20457.html
IN THIS ALERT:
1. VOLUNTEERS: Staging Area For Volunteers, Sick/Injured Animals
2. VOLUNTEERS: How To Get To Tabasco, Notes
3. SUPPLIES: Urgently Needed For Animal Flood Victims
4. UPDATES FROM THE GROUND
5. NEWS: Best Friends Plans Rescue of Thousands of Animals
6. PHOTOS REQUESTED: For Kinship Circle Animal Disaster Relief
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1. VOLUNTEERS: Staging Area For Volunteers, Sick/Injured Animals
TABASCO, MEXICO
FOOD, WATER, MEDIAL SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR ANIMALS IN MEXICO!
FROM: Jill Dennis, International Community Response Coordinator, Best Friends Animal Society, 435-644-3965 ext. 4439 * jill [at] bestfriends.org
The Best Friends staging area for volunteers and the sick/injured animals is now OFFICIAL. Richard Crook has established a staging area/rescue center on the campus of Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco Biological Campus.
VOLUNTEERS REPORT TO:
Biology Campus of the University (“UJAT”)
Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco
Division Academica de Ciencias Biologicas
Carretera Villahermosa-Cardenas
KM 0.5 Entronque Bosques de Saloya, CP. 86150
Villahermaosa, Tabasco, Mexico
international ph: +52 (993) 358 15 00, +52 (993) 358 15 00
POTENTIAL VOLUNTEER LIST FOR RICHARD CROOK (BEST FRIENDS)
SEND INFO TO kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
IF YOU’VE ALREADY SENT ME THIS, DO NOT RESEND
* Your FIRST and LAST name
* Your phone number (cell is best)
* Your PHYSICAL ADDRESS
* Brief credentials, disaster aid experience (Do not send entire resume. Send key points in email)
If you’ve already sent basic info, but want to tell me your DATES you’ll be in Mexico, please email kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net. I’ll let Richard know when you’ll arrive at Best Friends staging area.
FROM: Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle * kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
IF, AND ONLY IF, YOU ARE DEFINITELY GOING TO MEXICO AND WANT TO CONTACT RICH DIRECTLY, YOU MAY TRY (communication is not guaranteed) TO REACH HIM. Contact me for his cell phone and email address, kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Please do not contact Rich about travel questions, what personal supplies to bring, or to ask about the animals. This is NOT Katrina with large-staff operations set up (think Lamar Dixon, etc.). It is a handful of Americans coordinating with local, Spanish-speaking animal orgs.
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2. VOLUNTEERS: How To Get To Tabasco, Notes
TABASCO, MEXICO
WHICH AIRPORT TO FLY INTO, ETC…
FROM: Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle * kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
As I research/gather more info about logistics of getting to staging area, lodging, etc. I will post this to private email list of potential volunteers. For now, here is what I know about which airport to use.
The closest airport to flood site is:
Villahermosa International Airport
Carretera Villahermosa – Macuspana Km 13,
Villahermosa, Edo. de Tabasco
Telephone: (52) 99 – 3356-0157 international airport
MORE HERE: www.asur.com.mx/asur/ingles/aeropuertos/villahermosa/villahermosa.asp
NOTE TO POTENTIAL VOLUNTEERS:
This assignment is for the hardy and self-sufficient. Bring personal supplies similar to working in Katrina flood zone. Food, electricity, etc. are accessible from volunteer site. I do NOT yet know about access to showers. Bring baby wipes and washcloths.
****Any creative, resourceful person who can look into getting needed supplies shipped to BF staging site (ADDRESS IN ITEMS #1, #3 of this alert), please start working on this now.
PHOTO, Rich Crook, Best Friends Rapid Response Manager: Day Three (part one) — Tens of thousands of surviving dogs and cats may need help!
network.bestfriends.org/mexicofloodrescue/news/20458.html
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3. SUPPLIES: Urgently Needed For Animal Flood Victims
TABASCO, MEXICO
URGENTLY NEEDED FOR ANIMAL FLOOD VICTIMS:
– Dog/Cat Food
– Water
– Veterinary Medical Supplies
– Crates, Kennels
– Catch Poles
– Tarps, Tents
– Food Bowls
– Animal Care Products
– Boats
– Motors etc.
SEND SUPPLIES TO THE BIOLOGY CAMPUS:
Biology Campus of the University (“UJAT”)
Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco
Division Academica de Ciencias Biologicas
Carretera Villahermosa-Cardenas
KM 0.5 Entronque Bosques de Saloya, CP. 86150
Villahermaosa, Tabasco, Mexico
international ph: +52 (993) 358 15 00, +52 (993) 358 15 00
DONATE TO BEST FRIENDS:
www.bestfriends.org/donate/index.cfm?
www.bestfriends.org/donate/MembershipPrograms.cfm?
FROM: Richard Crook, Rapid Response Manager, Executive Division
Best Friends Animal Society
We only yesterday (Nov. 9-10) were able to secure one of the University Campuses here in Tabasco, now it’s set up time. Right now I would prefer we only bring in skilled volunteers.
Anyone who can BRING supplies needed (above) — by all means, get on the road. The quicker we set up, the quicker we can bring in the sick and injured. We’re approaching two weeks in, so time is becoming an issue.
One last request, I’m also looking to secure items mentioned above locally if at all possible, so those of us that have been through this before know what is needed… Please pass along any leads on local equipment or supplies. This would be most helpful…
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4. UPDATES FROM THE GROUND
TABASCO, MEXICO
HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL: Responders On Ground + Supporting Local Efforts
FROM: Jessica Higgins, Program Manager, Latin America and Caribbean
Humane Society International * www.hsi.org
Jessica Higgins writes: I am flying to Villahermosa tomorrow (11/11/07). Dr. Mark Lloyd, DVM will arrive to assist… HSI has processed a donation to Gente por la Defensa Animal (GEPDA) in Mexico City to get them to Tabasco. They’ll work under the HSI “banner.” The HSI funding is to get them mobilized, but should consider a second donation to cover the response as it progresses. After Dr. Lloyd and I return to U.S., GEPDA will stay in place.
DONATE TO GEPDA:
CONTACT GEPDA:
Mónica Pineda, Founder, GEPDA President USA: monica [at] gepda.org
Mary Carmen García, Founder, GEPDA Vice President Mexico: maryk [at] gepda.org
PHOTO, Richard Crook: Stranded by Floods in the Mexican State of Tabasco.
network.bestfriends.org/mexicofloodrescue/news/20437.html
FROM: Karen O’ Toole, Cougy [at] aol.com
Karen has been in Tabasco since last week, helping with animal aid assessment 90,000 sq miles devastated. Much of it cow land. So the cows are in deep trouble. 1.8 million cows in outlaying areas, not reachable by boats, etc. Not enough boats. Far out of city.
There are 2 main areas of the city still flooded. About 15 ft high, dropping a foot a day in the city, an inch a day in the outlaying areas, cow country.
Been in helicopters and boats surveying area. Have been meeting with govt. officials to get boats, etc. A small group of rescuers here that live in this city, only 5 of them. This is a city that recently electrocuted 50 stray dogs. This small group of rescuers had a protest. Only 100 people showed up. Most of population doesn´t care about animals, as is typical.
Got the university involved to give us students, volunteers, to help distribute food. The local five were doing it all alone.
Pets now 10 days without food-water. Those pets that lived were left on their roofs so they cannot get to the water, which is now dropped and below their level. Water in outlaying farms is fresh water, so at least the animals have that, and TONS of it, but in town the water is getting darker and darker. Motor boats, dead animals, submerged cars etc., polluting it.
Water should be down in about 3 to 4 weeks. But people lost everything and people food has to be brought in, so they’re not feeding pets with anything.
Been in military copters, SO SAD you see cows dead everywhere and those alive are on tiny dry patches in the middle of nowhere, and I mean nowhere. They will never get food. Other cows haven’t found these RARE dry patches and are still standing in deep water, no food around them, no land, nothing but miles of water in every direction. Not a chance in hell for them.
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5. NEWS: Best Friends Plans Rescue of Thousands of Animals
PHOTO, Rich Crook: Two dogs just rescued from the flood.
network.bestfriends.org/mexicofloodrescue/news/20439.html
TABASCO, MEXICO
Best Friends Prepares Staging Area, Plans Rescue of Thousands of Animals
network.bestfriends.org/mexicofloodrescue/news/20437.html
VILLA HERMOSA, Mexico — Best Friends Animal Society, the organization that helped rescue 6,000 dogs and cats following Hurricane Katrina, is prepared to launch a rescue effort to reach thousands of companion animals stranded by floodwaters in the Mexican state of Tabasco.
“We’ve seen dogs swimming for their lives, stranded on concrete blocks, on rooftops, and clinging to anything that will float,” said Rich Crook, rapid response manager for Best Friends, the American animal rescue organization. “We’re making final arrangements to get as many of them out as we can.”
Working with local authorities, Crook has established a staging area/rescue center on the campus of Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco Biological Campus. Four Best Friends rescue teams will be out on the water in the next few days to rescue animals stranded by floodwaters. Those animals suffering from injury or trauma will be brought to the rescue center where they will be treated by volunteer veterinarians.
“Most of the damage is on the northern and southern areas of Villa Hermosa and on the outskirts of the city,” Crook said. “We estimate there are 15,000-20,000 animals that will need help.”
The most immediate need, Crook said, will be to set up feeding and watering stations for the animals, all of which must be done on the water because houses are submerged to the rooftops.
“We are pleased to be partnering with the university, which has made the campus available for our staging area,” Crook said. “This is critical to a rescue of this nature. Having the use of buildings on the campus gives us a place where volunteers can stay and space to care for the animals.”
Heavy tropical storm rains inundated the area surrounding Villa Hermosa last week, causing damage to as many as one million homes. Published reports earlier this week said floodwaters had caused $4.7 billion in damage to homes, farmlands and cattle ranches. According to Crook, locals said it took only three hours for the rain to rise over the rooftops.
Paul Berry, chief executive officer of Utah-based Best Friends, said the organization’s rapid response teams are trained just for such a rescue operation. “We’ve been through this in Katrina and there are many similarities here,” Berry said. “As we have done in the past, we will work with local groups and lend our expertise where needed.”
DONATE TO BEST FRIENDS:
www.bestfriends.org/donate/index.cfm?
www.bestfriends.org/donate/MembershipPrograms.cfm?
MORE STORIES/UPDATES:
11/10/07: Tens of thousands of surviving dogs/cats may need help! [Day 3: Part 1]
network.bestfriends.org/mexicofloodrescue/news/20458.html
11/10/07: “Can you help us?” [Day 3: Part 2]
network.bestfriends.org/mexicofloodrescue/news/20457.html
11/9/07: Focusing on stranded companion animals
network.bestfriends.org/mexicofloodrescue/news/20440.html
11/9/07: Best Friends Team talks with top Mexico leaders about relief needs
network.bestfriends.org/mexicofloodrescue/news/20439.html
PHOTO, Rich Crook: Flooded street in Villaharmosa.
network.bestfriends.org/mexicofloodrescue/news/20440.html
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6. PHOTOS REQUESTED: For Kinship Circle Animal Disaster Relief
TABASCO, MEXICO
If you volunteer in Tabasco, please send us your photos and stories about animals there.
FROM: Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle, kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Send digital photo files (your best shots, not everything) of animals and rescue situations observed on the ground. We will post these, with your name/credit and brief description of photos to Kinship Circle Animal Disaster Relief email list and website, www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/
SEND PHOTOS TO kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
INCLUDE:
1. Your FULL NAME
2. DATES you volunteered
3. WHERE you volunteered (physical location)
4. BRIEF DESCRIPTION of photo[s] you send
5. Your EMAIL ADDRESS for feedback comments
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