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Businesses in vanguard of Haiti quake response
Feb 01, 2010 The business world has rallied to pledge relief to Haiti following the earthquake there that has killed more than 100,000 people. Dozens of firms have donated money and resources to charities and relief services working in the region after a tremor measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck just outside the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Some companies already had disaster response mechanisms in place that have now sprung into action. The United Nations, for example, asked Ericsson to deploy its ‘Ericsson Response’ organization to aid relief work in the area. Ericsson has now sent some of its volunteers, who were on stand-by, to re-establish mobile communications in the country.