Pierre Petry is a World Food Program elderly ICT specialist . He ’s currently positioned in Haiti , and has fleet along his first - hand experience trying to help a state with virtually no telecommunication base left in the aftermath of the recent earthquake .
I was in Cap - Haitien sub office located in the due north of the country give the “ GVLP Driver Training ” when we feel the earthquake for about 15 minute . Everybody rushed outside the old construction .
Some minutes later , we learned that Port - au - Prince was badly strike by an earthquake . We sample to connect with the WFP country office by FoodSat telephone , mobile earpiece and landline without any success . Finally we got in touch with the HF radio on 3.xxx Mhz .
The Port - au - Prince VSAT is out of order , the landlines and GSM phones are dead . Port - au - Prince ( PaP ) Country Office can not be reached any longer even by e - mail or LotusNotes as the FoodSat is probably damaged .
The following day I travelled from Cap - Haitien to PaP , but the WFP certificate officer deny me and my driver admittance to the capital . So we drove back to Gonaives submarine - office .
luckily in Gonaives I found an idle iDirect BitSat . It was used for the Inter Agency cybercafe in 2008 during the “ Ike cyclone ” emergency . It was installed in the MINUSTAH base . With the help of local staff we took down the antenna and the router , loaded the equipment on an honest-to-god M6 truck and draw the security department clearance for PaP. Now we are ready to go tomorrow morning to PaP with an MINUSTAH military escort .
— Provided by theUnited Nations Foundation
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