Télécoms Sans Frontières - Communications for Life

We applaud the work of Télécoms Sans Frontières …

Their Origin: During missions respond­ing to the crisis in the Balkans and in Kurdistan during the 1^st Gulf War, Télécoms Sans Frontières’ (TSF) founders realized that, in addition to medical and food aid, there was a criti­cal need for reliable emergency telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions services. Conflicts and emergen­cies often led to massive civil­ian displace­ment and separated families. And affected popula­tions are often left with no commu­ni­ca­tions infra­struc­ture in place to find assis­tance and loved ones. To address this need, TSF bought its first satel­lite phone eleven years ago and the organi­za­tion was born. For all missions today, TSF offers a 3-minute call to any affected family.

TSF soon found that the inter­na­tional response teams that deploy to emergen­cies also had a criti­cal need for reliable telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions services in the first days after an emergency. TSF, there­fore, expanded its opera­tions, improved its technol­ogy, and began to estab­lish rapidly deploy­able emergency telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions centers to serve UN, govern­ment, and NGO human­i­tar­ian workers, and devel­oped a reputa­tion for being among the first to arrive after disasters.

Mission Haiti 2010: Deployed in Haiti the day follow­ing the terri­ble earth­quake that struck the country, TSF teams remain mobilized, day after day, support­ing the human­i­tar­ian commu­nity and the affected popula­tion. Three calling centers have been estab­lished in Port-au-Prince, Carrefour and Jacmel that are open for the people of Haiti: Union School in Port-au-Prince, Adventistes in Carrefour and Rue Febrile in Jacmel.

Everyone should know more about the work of this organization!

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