NAMPA -- A global charity based in Nampa is sending more relief to Haiti.
Mission Aviation Fellowship sent personnel last week to assess the damage and report back.
Now that information has come in and Mission Aviation Fellowship is preparing its planes and staff.
For two decades MAF volunteers in Haiti have flown food and supplies to the poor.
Now, the volunteers there will be spending even more time in the air to help those on the ground.
With as much time and staff MAF has in Haiti, it was inevitable the earthquake would affect them too, damaging volunteer homes and killing a native Haitian working for them.
"It's more than just a disaster that we're responding to. It's a disaster that's happened to us," Ron Wismer of Mission Aviation Fellowship said.
MAF disaster manager Ron Wismer is calling the shots from Nampa.
Despite all the destruction from last week's massive earthquake, none of MAF's three planes were damaged.
Immediately they were put to use -- shuttling food, water and supplies.
This week, Wismer is sending more help.
"This plane here will be leaving Thursday. We'll be sending, I'm not sure yet on who's going to go yet on that one but at least two people here will be going on that flight," Wismer said.
The plane will be used to take more supplies to those who need it most and in the future, even evacuate people.
In another relief effort, MAF set up a communication system in its Port-au-Prince hangar.
The system will help MAF and other relief workers in Haiti stay in touch with their organizations in the U.S.
"I've already increased my e-mail from Haiti just in the last 24 hours, so it's been a very good help for a lot of the people," Wismer said. "We've got a lot of capable people to move in as soon as we get the people and the equipment there, but it's pretty tough.”
While the communication system only allows for e-mails right now, several phone lines will be connected soon.
