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NACEC
P.O. Box 174
Aurora MN 55705 USA
Phone: 218.305.4100
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"To reduce human loss of life, suffering, injury and stress within large scale
disaster areas by providing the emergency communications needed to coordinate and safely operate
relief activities."
We accomplish our mission by providing commercial communications technicians, with communications equipment,
into the disaster area. NACEC's professional communications technicians with the help of NACEC
volunteers install, maintain and service the emergency communications systems 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 to the left represents a situation
where 6 NGOs are 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 like
tent cities, shelters, feeding locations and other areas within the disaster area. With communications the
trucks 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 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 lightning fast and much simpler.
Communications Infrastructure Support
Local Radio Broadcast Stations:
This support primarily deals with large-scale disasters that occur in developing countries. In developing
countries getting critical information such as where to secure water, food and shelter out to the survivors
can become a greater challenge do to language and high illiteracy rates.
In these situations getting the local radio broadcast stations back into operation becomes extremely important
as they provide the main path for information to flow to the survivors. For this reason after getting our
emergency two-way communications systems operational our field team technicians and volunteers will begin to
work with local radio stations and assist them in getting back on the air.
High-speed Internet Access:
Today with computer access and digital communications playing such a key role in normal business operations
from communications to materials requisition, it is important the Internet access be made available as quickly
as possible. Our field technicians will attempt to evaluate the feasibility of bringing the local Internet Service
Providers back into operation quickly. If our technicians feel it is possible to do, they will assist if needed.
NACEC field technicians and volunteers will work to provide Internet access to the agencies and organization
serving in the disaster area. In those situations where there is another organization already working in the
disaster area to provide high-speed Internet access, if needed, our technicians and volunteers will assist them.
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NACEC is a non-profit 501(c)(3), public service organization.
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