NACEC's disaster mission is to reduce the number of deaths, injuries and stress within the disaster area by increasing the speed at which aid reaches the survivors and to increase the level of safety for all those assisting with relief operations and activities within the disaster area. NACEC does not charge for the support it provides.

We accomplish our mission by providing commercial radio communications resources to the NGOs working within the disaster area. NACEC's disaster response team consists of trained and experienced communications technicians that install, maintain and service the communications systems and equipment our organization provides.

The communications support provided by our organization can drastically increase the operating efficiency of those organizations that are actively involved in supporting the immediate needs of the disaster victims, by allowing these agencies and organizations to much more quickly and efficiently coordinate their relief activities.

NACEC is working to secure state-of-the-art communications equipment that will allow us to serve many organizations within a disaster area simultaneously. The image above represents a situation where 6 NGOs being served by our system. In the image we will focus on just some of the many areas that need communications within a single NGO.

The NGO's management and coordination staff needs to be able to communicate with all of the various areas within their operation. Many of these areas need to communicate directly with other areas to coordinate their mutual activities as well. Such as, it may be very helpful for the warehouse to know when a truck will arrive with goods just offloaded from an airplane or a ship. The may need to line up extra help to unload the shipment and move it into the warehouse. Almost the same is true for the trucks that are distributing the food and supplies to victims through their organizations locations at tent cities, shelters, feeding locations and other areas within the disaster area, can call in when they are on their way back to the warehouse, allowing the ware house to get everything ready to quickly reload the truck when it arrives. Without communications when a truck leaves the warehouse, if it has a mechanical problem or flat time, it has no quick way to contact staff to send assistance. The truck may simply disappear for the entire day or until it is seriously overdue and a search party is sent to find it and the missing staff. So our communications also helps increase security.

Yet two other areas that benefit from communications are the assessment team moving about within the disaster area. Not only can communications increase their security but it can also give them the ability to make reports instantly should they come across a situation where help needs to be rendered. This is about the same for the staff that are on foot within certain areas of the NGO's operations. If management needs to contact a specific staff member radio communications can make this task much simpler.