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As last year, I would like to bring to your attention the humanitarian NGO specialising in emergency telecommunications, called Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF), also known as “Telecoms without Borders” or “Communications for Life“. Just as reporters or doctors of the same named humanitarion organizations, TSF is bringing the first aid communication infrastructure to catastrophy area’s in need setting up the basic elements to create communications networks.

There is an urgent need for food, water, shelter, protection and medical help in emergencies, but none of these things are possible without quick and reliable communications. In 2005, TSF team, partners and donors, deployed to 10 countries to the benefit of 50 000 people and 250 relief organisations.

Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF), the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced a partnership in October to provide telecommunications to the humanitarian community in all world crises. This is the first time UNICEF signs a worldwide agreement with an NGO.

Thanks to this agreement, TSF can deploy up to four teams within 24 hours, with the intervention teams of the UN, to help in the case of natural disasters and in humanitarian crises anywhere in the world. The teams, experienced in telecommunications are among the first to arrive on the ground where they open emergency telecommunication centres that help rescue teams from the UN, NGOs and local governments, telephone connections, Internet, video, fax, scanning facilities, and technical assistance in the use of satellite equipment, WiFi and GSM. Rescue teams need reliable systems of communications to ensure logistics, coordination and the evolution of operations.

I decided to donate my Google Adsense earnings of this year to the Télécoms Sans Frontières organization, you can donate here.

BTW: made me think it would be great if Google could develop some automized system to donate to various humanitarian organizations