The team of 15 that has been in Haiti for 2 weeks has been scheduled to go home on Tuesday, Jan 19th. Because of the craziness at the Haitian airport and the suspension of commerical flights, I took the team into Port-au-Prince early Monday morning to see if we could get them on an evacuation flight back to Canada.
We got news in the afternoon that they would be able to get home on a Canadian military flight (a Hercules). Foreign Affairs called their families Monday evening with the news that everyone was in the air and would be arriving in Montreal at 9:30pm local time. The Red Cross will be providing them accomodation at the Windham Hotel in Montreal. Their flights home to Halifax will be arranged after that.
~Karen
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