Oisin Walton
Oisin Walton is head of communications and international relations for Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF). TSF deploys rapidly after major disasters to provide emergency communications to support U.N. agencies and other aid organisations. Oisin has participated in missions to Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Mozambique and is now in Haiti, where he is TSF's head of mission.
Emergency calls bring comfort, cash for Haitians
Author: Oisin Walton
Today I heard a man speak to his estranged son for the first time in over a decade. His voice shook as he spoke through a volunteer who translated the father's Haitian Creole into the son's mother tongue, French.
The father and son had last seen each other when the son was a baby, emigrating from Haiti to France in his mother's arms. Now, here in this crowded, muddy town square in Gonaives - a city ravaged by the global food crisis and then severe tropical storms - the father has this first tearful exchange with his son via a free, three-minute phone call.
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Author: Oisin Walton
Today I heard a man speak to his estranged son for the first time in over a decade. His voice shook as he spoke through a volunteer who translated the father's Haitian Creole into the son's mother tongue, French.
The father and son had last seen each other when the son was a baby, emigrating from Haiti to France in his mother's arms. Now, here in this crowded, muddy town square in Gonaives - a city ravaged by the global food crisis and then severe tropical storms - the father has this first tearful exchange with his son via a free, three-minute phone call.
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