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RFA Largs Bay delivers aid to isolated Haitian village

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The crew of RFA Largs Bay has delivered critical aid to the Haitian municipality of Anse-à-Veau which, two months after the earthquake that devastated the country, is still inaccessible to land convoys.

Bay Class Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) vessel Largs Bay, with members of 17 Port and Maritime Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, and other members of her embarked military force, are now three weeks into their aid mission.

Having delivered essential supplies at Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, the ship and her crew are now hard at work redistributing World Food Programme (WFP) food and commodities to Haitian communities who have been logistically cut off from the rest of the island in the aftermath of the quake.

Anse-à-Veau, in Nippes province on Haiti's southern peninsula, has been swollen by refugees from Port-au-Prince.

With the roads impassable due to mudslides and flooding, the only way to get aid through to the the area has been by occasional air drops.

RFA Largs Bay and its crew were recently tasked by the WFP to deliver Anse-à-Veau's first major relief package since the earthquake.