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10-05-31: World famous singer Christina Aguilera recently visited Camp Charlie. Aguilera, new ambassador against hunger for WFP, had a meeting in the base camp with WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran. Christina Aguilera also visited two schools in Haiti and met children receiving food aid through WFP school meals programmes. There the famous pop star helped serve meals of rice and beans to the children. Picture from the IHP base camp shows Christina Aguilera and here husband Jordan Bratman in conversation with WFP´s Josette Sheeran.
10-03-09: Osse Wolfgang and Joey Renert. Osse started in the camp February 11th. He has earlier worked in the school system in Haiti. He lives in Port au Prince. Joey Renert is the WFP camp manager, thus the one of the most important persons in the camp. He is the UN representative and the one who is going to take over the camp when IHP leaves. Joey has worked earlier with IHP nations, in Banda Aceh following the Tsunami disaster in Indonesia. Joey is a very much appreciated personality among the IHP staff but not least among the locally employed.
Photo: Kjell Larsson
10-03-09: The laundry is a vivid place where laughter and jokes are heard loudly and often. The automatic washing machines, sent from Europe, has not arrived so 10 women and two men are employed to wash by hand clothes from the guests in the camp, from their linen in the beds and table cloth . As up to now the WFP/IHP constellation has paid for the washing. Later the laundry will be handed over to the employed staff as entrepreneurs. Pictured is Augustin Rosela from Petionville.
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10-03-09: Baptiste Marie Dinelle also works in the laundry. She lives close to the camp.
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10-03-09: Jean Louise Marianne, Rose-Marie Clarius and Ruthma Senatus, three assistants to the chefs in the kitchen.
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10-03-09: Gregory Germain, works in the kitchen, one of the kitchen staff you meet when having meals.
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10-03-09: Knut Thindberg, chef from Norway. Works as a free lancer in his home country, travels around to different events. Knut also has experiences from missions to Pakistan and Somalia.
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10-03-09: Bo Urskov, electrician from Denmark. His fourth mission. Before Haiti he has been to Pakistan, Cyprus and Benin. In Denmark he is ICT responsible person at DEMA.
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10-03-09: Rainer Asukyla, mechanic from Estonia. Responsible for maintenance and repair of vehicles, generators, air conditioners and many other devices.
“When Swedes fail, I fix it”, he says with a glimpse in his eyes.
Photo: Kjell Larsson
10-03-09: Björn Svärd is a fire fighter, foreman, at the fire and rescue services in Malmoe. In the base camp Björn is responsible for the water supply. “A fire fighter has must have multi-capacity”, Björn says. His main problem is that the water has to much calcium. Björn has previous experience from missions in Pakistan, Central Africa and Congo-Kinshasa.
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10-03-09: A basic condition in order to get the base camp running effective is that the IHP staff and local employees work close together. To judge from the picture the atmosphere among the IHP personnel and the locally recruited staff is very good.
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10-03-09: Jommi Hyttinen serves as electrician in the camp. In Finland he works as foreman in the fire brigade. He lives in Hyvänkä, 40 km north of Helsinki. The IHP mission in Haiti is his first mission. Jommi thinks it is a good experience to meet with people from many different cultures.
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10-03-09: Lisbeth Gronert and Martin Wahl outside the medical clinic. Lisbeth from Norway is an experienced nurse even though this is her first mission. But she is born in Africa as her parents were missionaries and specialists on physiotherapy. In this mission her main responsibility is the welfare of the UN and IHP staff. She is also responsible for hygiene in the camp.
Martin Wahl is the doctor. This is his 6th mission. He has huge experience of medical care in disaster stricken countries. His first mission was following the Tsunami. He is in Sweden regionally responsible for medical planning in west Sweden. He has assisted MSB, earlier SRSA, in building up the MERT, Swedish support team and many other measures.
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10-03-09: Anders Olsson is a 46 year old station officer at the fire brigade of Skövde, south western part of Sweden. In the IHP camp Anders is the administrative coordinator with responsibility for all in-and-out matters. Anders Olsson says he is in Haiti because it gives him a lot of energy for his home activities and also gives him a good reminder of mans vulnerability. “The challenge for the camp is now the coming rainy season. We are not fully prepared for the rains yet, but we will, Anders says.
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10-03-09: Finn Bram is fifty years old , works and lives in southern Jutland. In Denmark he is a work-shop manager for DEMA. He has a fire-fighter background with special training for mechanics.
Finn Bram is IHP camp manager where his first responsibility is together with the WFP camp manager make sure that the camp is running well and that the “guests are comfortable”. This IHP mission is Finn´s 12th mission. The first one was in Baghdad 1991. The challenge for the IHP camp in Haiti is the coming rainy season and the need for exchange of the tents to prefab solution.
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10-03-09: In the hot climate it is important for the personnel to drink a lot over water. Many bottles are needed every day.
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10-02-08 Entrance to the base camp where WFP and IHP’s flags are flown. The reception is in the tent to the right.
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-02-08 This picture symbolizes the concept of the IHP which is based on cooperation between organisations from different countries. Nine people from four different countries are carrying the long canvas tent cover to one of the large accommodation tents.
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-02-08 Per-Niklas Ulin, a chef at the base camp, discusses a delivery of new food supplies on the phone.
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-02-08 Check-in at the base camp’s reception. Lina Eklund, a member of the IHP staff, receives three guests, two from WFP and one from the EU. In the background is the Swedish team leader Rolf Berg
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-02-08 There are dormitory-like accommodations inside the large accommodation tent, and also single rooms (in other words smaller tented rooms inside the large tent). Pictured here is a hallway between some of the single rooms.
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-02-08 The accommodation tents in the base camp have been set up. As of the 8th of February there are 300 beds available inside the camp. However, there are a few people who prefer a little cooler night temperature than that found in the tent, and have moved their beds and mosquito nets outside.
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-02-08 Water must also be supplied at the base camp. Pictured is a water reservoir which can hold 20 cubic meters of water and a water purification system (to the left).
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-01-31 Anna Malm, a chef from Sweden, stirring the pot in the IHP camp’s kitchen.
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-01-31 Danish and Norwegian cooperation in the base camp’s medical clinic. From the left is Linda Brorson from Danmark and Elin Malones from Norway.
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-01-31 Liv Almstedt from Sweden is one of the IHP camp’s personnel. She is a water and sanitation expert.
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-01-31 Many different nationalities have had the opportunity to cooperate during the Haiti response. Pictured is Finn Bram from Denmark and Liv Almstedt from Sweden in a discussion with two members of the German organization Technisches Hilfswerk.
Photo: Per Larsson, Tjugofyra7 Magazine, MSB
10-01-28 Smiles are beginning to return amongst the local population in Haiti after all the awful and tragic things that have happened there.
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-01-28 Danish and Swedish IHP cooperation at the base camp. Danish IHP coordinator Peter Kass-Claesson and Åse Lunde, Swedish Security Coordinator
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-01-28 IHP means cooperation and coordination over national boundaries, like when a large tent is to be set-up at the base camp. From the left: Rolf Berg (Sweden), Raimo Rasijeff (Finland), Arne Haugbjörg (Norway), Elin Malones (Norway), Lina Eklund (Sweden), Germund Larsson (Sweden) och Knut Aas (Norway).
Photo: Lars Johansson, MSB
10-01-28 Fredrik Zethelius (on the left), Swedish team leader since the mission’s beginning phase, together with the deputy Norwegian team leader Robert Goodwin.
Photo: Per Larsson, Tjugofyra7 Magazine, MSB
10-01-28 Linda Broson from Danmark is part of the IHP-team.
Photo: Per Larsson, Tjugofyra7 Magazine, MSB
10-01-28 Lars Johansson, well-known within the International Humanitarian Partnership, has been in Haiti for the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency with the task of mapping future assistance needs.
Photo: Magnus Hagelsteen, MSB.
10-01-25 Welcome inside to see my room, said Norwegian team member Elin Malones when WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran visited the base camp built by the crew from the International Humanitarian Partnership.
Photo: Per Larsson, Tjugofyra/7 Magazine, MSB
10-01-25 Estonian IHP-personell at work in the base camp, which is under construction, IT support staff Indrek Juhansson (sitting) and Enn Eberg, one of the Estonian logistics.
10-01-25 Norwegian team member Gisle Årmot in his tented single room at the base camp.
Photo: Per Larsson, Tjugofyra/7 Magazine, MSB
10-01-25 Another tent is raised at the camp with the help from many hands.
Photo: Per Larsson, Tjugofyra/7 Magazine, MSB
10-01-25 The arrival of vehicles, machines and trucks have sped up the construction of the IHP-base camp.
Photo: Per Larsson, Tjugofyra/7 Magazine, MSB