Yves Legil of CSDIS, off to Haiti;
Credit: MAEE
On Wednesday 18 August 2021, Luxembourg's Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, together with the Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action, the Ministry of the Interior and the Grand-Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps (CGDIS), confirmed that they are providing support to the government of Haiti following the recent earthquake and subsequent storms.
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday 14 August 2021: Luxembourg is currently mobilising to provide support to the Haitian population. To that end, Taina Bofferding, Minister of the Interior, and Franz Fayot, Minister of Cooperation and Humanitarian Action, have responded favourably to an official request for international assistance launched by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
A volunteer firefighter, a member of the intervention group in charge of humanitarian missions of the Grand-Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps, will therefore be deployed to be part of one of the United Nations teams of experts for the assessment and disaster and emergency coordination (UNDAC). The mission of this team of experts is, among other things, to ensure the rapid collection, analysis and distribution of information as soon as a sudden disaster strikes and to coordinate international relief at the national level as well as in the disaster area.
