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FM AMEMBASSY VIENNA
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UNCLAS VIENNA 000107 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE (ROSSER), WHA/FO (WILLIAMS), 
USAID FOR AID/A (O'NEILL), DCHA/OFDA, UNAID/OFDA, EUR/EX, EUR/NB 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA AU
SUBJECT: Update on Austrian Aid to Haiti 
 
REF: VIENNA 69 
 
¶1.  Austria's total (public and private) assistance to Haiti has 
risen to about EUR 10 million, making Austria one of the more 
generous countries in the EU on a per capita basis(after Norway, 
Sweden and Denmark). 
 
¶2.  Government Aid: This week Foreign Minister Spindelegger 
announced that the GoA would contribute an additional 2 million 
Euros to its earlier contribution of EUR 600,000 in emergency funds 
and EUR 200,000 in supplies - making the government's total 
contribution Euros 2.8 million Euros.  Provincial governments have 
also pledged aid to Haiti: EUR 500,000 from Vienna and EUR 350,000 
from Tyrol. 
 
¶3. Private Aid: Private donations have far exceeded government 
donations.  "Nachbar-in-Not" (Neighbors-in-Need), the umbrella 
organization for Austrian aid groups reported this week that is has 
received EUR 6.7 million in donations for Haiti. There are also 
various business associations collecting smaller amounts. On a 
political note, our Interior Ministry contact reports that there are 
now two small NGO teams of Austrians in Haiti: one is from the 
Austrian Red Cross and is sponsored by the conservative People's 
Party (OeVP), the other is from the Austrian Samaritans and is 
sponsored by the Social Democratic Party (SPOe). 
 
¶4. Aid Shipments To Date:  According to Christian Krol at the 
Interior Ministry, three shipments of aid supplies for Haiti have 
been sent/arranged: 
- 19 January: 2 Interagency Emergency Health Kits (IEHKs) left for 
Port-au-Prince on board an IL76 along with a Red Cross water 
purification equipment and hygiene parcels; 
- 24 January: 400 family tents left for St. Domingo on board a joint 
transport arranged by the GoA along with assets from Slovenia and 
Hungary. 
- End January (pending): 10 additional IEHKs which will be shipped 
by Caritas (a Catholic NGO) probably through St. Domingo. 
 
EACHO