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Mayday Ready For Disaster
THE CONTRAST could not have been more stark. When John Tepel, President of Mayday Industries, Inc., Westminster, CA, got word of a devastating earthquake in Haiti, and utter de- struction of Port-Au-Prince (the capital), he was on a leisurely vacation in beautiful Hawaii. He didn’t wait to hear later reports on the climbing toll of dead and injured. He immediately got on the telephone to his California offi ce to begin preparations to donate emergency food rations, water, tarps, stretchers, and other critical items. “It was just some- thing that had to be done, and
when there are disasters, I try to help out,” he says. “We were very gratifi ed to receive photos from a person on the ground in Haiti, of people using our relief supplies. So many times when we donate materials for different disaster situations, the products never make it to the people.” “We manufacture emergency
food rations and drinking water, among other products, and after the tsunami a few years back, we donated a lot of supplies. Unfor- tunately, they were eventually thrown out because of logistics bottlenecks. This time, it was heartwarming to see that the
food and drinking water were ac- tually used by those who needed it most.” As tragic as events are in Haiti, Tepel feels that there is a chance now to improve liv- ing conditions for everyone, “It is tragic that hundreds of thou- sands of people had to die to bring the focus of the world on this country. That focus need- ed to be there even before this tragedy. Hopefully, when the in- frastructure is rebuilt, there will be better building standards em- ployed. Many people died in this earthquake because of the poor building standards and shoddy
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