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Peek in Haiti

It’s been nearly two months since the devastating earthquake in Haiti and work to rebuild the country is just beginning. Peek is assisting the efforts by providing Peeks for organizations helping in the relief work.

So far, we’ve donated Peeks to several groups including Sun Energy Power International, a Partners in Health affiliate providing solar systems to Haiti’s hospitals. SunEPI member Christopher Freitas was recently in Haiti assisting the search and rescue effort at the Hotel Montana. Frietas was able to use his Peek throughout the trip for email and text messaging within Haiti and back home to the US.

A few additional Peeks were provided to local Haitians and volunteer workers, many who had been working for over a week with little ability to communicate to the outside world. Local cellphones rarely worked as the capacity of the cell network for voice was overloaded. With Peek, they didn’t have to leave the rescue site to send important updates, coordinate resources and keep in touch with their family and organizations.

There is so much more to be done in Haiti and now Chile, too. We encourage all Peeksters to donate what you can. Walt Ratterman, CEO of SunEPI, was a victim of the devastating earthquake, however, their work continues and members of the SunEPI team will be returning to Haiti in April.

• You can donate to SunEPI’s work with renewable energy in developing countries at sunepi.org
• For more donation options visit here (Haiti) and here (Chile)

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1 Comment

1. You’ve performed a very great service,PEEK. The fact that the people who were given PEEK’s we able to communicate when other cell phones couldn’t speaks very well of the PEEK’s performance in a less than optimal situation (to put it mildly).

   Comment by Dale McNamee — March 10, 2010 @ 10:26 pm

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