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AmericasRelief
Team is a Florida private sector collaboration
of corpor-ations and non-profit organizations created
to help our Latin America and Caribbean friends in
times of crisis and disasters. AmericasRelief
Team reacts to immediate
crisis, provides ongoing logistics assistance, and
conducts plans for future events in the region which
will require effective coordination of humanitarian
relief. |
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AmericasRelief
Team works together in a coordinated basis with
the government of the Caribbean country, the U.S. government,
donating corporations, air & sea cargo carriers,
logistics companies, non-governmental experts and others
to assess damage when disaster strikes, and then effectively
channel emergency relief to the most affected areas. |
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AmericasRelief
Team conducts
multiple programs and initiatives as advocates, coordinators,
and facilitators in the planning and implemen-tation for
the effective distribution of disaster relief to victims
of human-itarian crises in the Americas. |
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As an added service to
relief aid organizations (NGOs), AmericasRelief
Team is
proud to announce that it has partnered with more than
15 air and ocean carriers to help provide the lowest shipping
rate possible to Central America and the Caribbean. |
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Humanitarian
NGOs can now maximize their donations by providing more
charitable items, while saving funds in the transportation
of goods to their programs in Central America and the Caribbean. |
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We are authorized to
offer humanitarian NGOs with weekly sailings to over 80
destinations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
We have guaranteed space with all carriers at most destinations.
Our contracts include the handling of less than container
load (LCL), full container load (FCL), and Air cargo. |
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CARGO
RATE REQUEST |
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Email
or Fax to: |
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305-884-0442 |
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Confirm
there is a Need for All Items Being Collected: |
Do not
make assumptions about the needs of disaster victims. Exactly
what is needed can be confirmed by checking with an established
relief organization that has personnel working on-site.
Do not send what is not needed; unneeded commodities compete
with priority relief items for transportation and storage.
Organizations that receive in-kind relief donations can
help this process by clearly communicating what items are
required (in what size, type, etc.) as well as clearly
stating what items or services are NOT needed. Please remember,
certain foods, particularly in famine situations, can make
victims ill. In most cases, donations of canned goods are
not appropriate. The collection of bottled water is highly
inefficient. It is important to have an accurate analysis
of need before determining response. |
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Deliver
Items Only to Organizations having Local Distribution
Capacity: |
Distributing relief supplies requires personnel
and financial resources within the affected country. To
efficiently distribute relief commodities, staff, warehouses,
trucks and communications equipment are required. It is
not enough to gather supplies and send them to an affected
region; a sound partnership with a reliable local agency
having transport and management capacity is mandatory. |
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Donate
Only to Organizations having the Ability to Transport
Collected Items to the Affected Region: |
Immediately
after a disaster, many local organizations will spontaneously
begin collecting miscellaneous items for use in disaster
relief. However, at the time that these collections are
begun, agency officials will not have thought about to
whom, or how, the items will be sent. It is not unusual
for community and civic groups to have collected several
thousands of pounds of relief supplies only to find that
they do not know whom to send the supplies to and that
they do not have viable transportation options for shipping
the goods. At this juncture, it is often advisable for
those collecting the goods to auction them off locally,
converting commodities into cash to be applied to the relief
effort. |
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Never
Assume the U.S. Government or any Relief Agency Will
Transport Unsolicited Relief Items Free of Charge: |
It is important to make arrangements for
the transportation before collecting any
kind of material donations. Never assume
that the government or any relief agency, including AmericasRelief
Team will transport donations free of charge. In the majority
of cases, the collecting agency will be responsible for
paying commercial rates for the transportation and warehousing
of items gathered. |
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