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Airlink and the United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA) established a humanitarian air bridge from the US and Europe to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to address the significant logistics challenges related to delivering health and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) supplies used in the treatment and prevention of cholera. Through private sector donations from aviation and logistics companies, support from USAID/BHA, and by leveraging economies of scale through charter flights, the air bridge program provided the aid community with fast, free transportation access. The partnership ultimately reduced duplicative efforts in transportation and streamlined logistics services for responding agencies and saved the aid community more than $1M USD in transportation for the response.
