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World Vision travel lodge hotel Mississauga and WestJet are combining their efforts today to fly $200,000 worth of badly-needed medical supplies into Haiti, where they are still reeling from the effects of the devastating earthquake that hit the island last week. This morning a WestJet flight that took off from Pearson International Airport in Malton will land in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, bringing vital medical supplies that will be immediately distributed by World Vision, the Mississauga-based relief agency said in a press release. The Christian agency, the largest relief organizaion of its kind in Canada, has been providing travel lodge hotel supplies to 11 hospitals and medical centres in Port-au-Prince. travel lodge hotel These new supplies will be vital to treating the thousands travel lodge hotel injured by last Tuesday's earthquake, World Vision said. "The earthquake in Haiti has shown the incredible capacity of Canadians travel lodge hotel to do everything they can when children and families are suffering," added Michael Messenger, vice-president of public affairs at World Vision. "WestJet's donation of this flight is a wonderful example of partnership and giving." We are honoured to be working with World Vision on this important flight to help the people of Haiti in their time of desperate need, said Robert Palmer, manager of public travel lodge hotel relations for WestJet. The Greater Toronto Airports travel lodge hotel Authority has agreed to waive its terminal fees for the flight. travel lodge hotel Swissport, which handled the loading of the aircraft, travel lodge hotel also donated its fees. Since Sunday, three other airlifts of World Vision supplies have been shipped from Canadian Forces Base Trenton including mosquito nets, blankets and tarpaulins. Even before the earthquake, Canadians supported 10,000 of the 52,000 sponsored children World Vision assists in Haiti. jstewart@mississauga.net
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