AMURT & AMURTEL in operation GIVE YOUR HEART TO HAITI continues the work on the ground in Port Au Prince by offering soup kitchens, distributing family size dry rations, emergency medical clinics and community based capacity building.
Community Based Food Distribution
When the earthquake struck Haiti, AMURT & AMURTEL Haiti’s seasoned team were on the ground in Port-Au-Prince ready to deliver an immediate response, by applying its community-based Emergency Management Response Plan. The first steps involved the facilitation of transferring food, medical services, water, and non-food items from the large aid agencies into the hands of smaller community-based groups who are best positioned to effectively coordinate distribution. AMURT is facilitating inclusive and participatory community forums to structure the distribution themselves while enhancing their capacity. This reduces the inevitable gaps in communication and coordination inherent in large-scale disaster response, and prepares the ground for future sustainable community development.
Mobile Clinics in Isolated Slums
The initial intervention targeted those most heavily impacted by the earthquake, assisting residents in the isolated slum areas of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme by providing transport of wounded and supplies to hospitals. In the community of Delmas AMURT Haiti has working with our community-based partners providing logistical support, transport of medicine and patients, and coordination of medical volunteers, while in Boudan, our sister organization AMURTEL has been providing daily mobile clinics.
Long-Term Commitment to Grassroots Empowerment
AMURT will continue to align both its immediate and long-term response with the human rights-based framework of community empowerment, self-determination, and leadership capacity building. AMURT & AMURTEL have more than two decades of experience with relief work in Haiti, and have facilitated many ongoing development projects there. AMURTEL particularly focuses on meeting the special needs of women and children in disasters. The teams are responding to this calamity as rapidly and effectively as possible, and will remain far after the triage and immediate relief has been completed.
For a better understanding of this approach, please view our past and current community-based projects at our website, www.amurthaiti.org.
Our community kitchens and dry ration distributions supply food in several neighborhoods
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AMURTEL is mobilizing a volunteer response to the recent earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti. We have identified our current volunteer needs including doctors, nurses, engineers, child psychologists and emergency response specialists. All volunteers must be flexible, comfortable working independently and adaptable to difficult conditions. If you are interested in learning more about how you can help, Contact us. Please include a short description of yourself, your skills/training and your experience. Thank you for your continued support of AMURTEL in Haiti.
Schools Double as Disaster Shelters in Myanmar Posted by support on Sunday, November 08, 2009 (06:08:11) (153 reads)
At Kan Su (pictured above), the children have just moved into their new school building. They love the airy spaciousness and light provided by the high ceilings (12 feet high) and many windows and promise to take good care of their beautiful new school.
An earthquake and subsequent aftershocks near the city of Padang in Indonesia left 1,000 confirmed dead and several thousands missing. Half a million people were left homeless and the city's infrastructure severely damaged. 83,712 houses, 200 public buildings and 285 schools were destroyed and another 100,000 building severely damaged.
As an immediate response AMURT & AMURTEL provides tents and food to people affected by this disaster. In partnership with local communities and international agencies we are building a comprehensive program for vulnerable for women and children.
For this essential care program we are asking for your donation.
Motivation in Malaysia Posted by support on Sunday, November 08, 2009 (07:03:38) (150 reads)
At the recent Motivation Camp in Semenyih, the Year 6 students were taught the secret of programming their subconscious minds to achieve their desired results. While the immediate objective is for the students to pass the primary school leaving examinations with good results, the long-term goal is to teach these young people that the sky is the limit – to boost their self confidence so that they may reach their highest potential.
Better Houses for Cyclone Nargis Survivors Posted by support on Sunday, November 08, 2009 (04:51:26) (143 reads)
International NGOs estimate that 450,000 houses were destroyed and 340,000 damaged by Cyclone Nargis in May 2008, and more than 2.5m people affected. Today, more than one year later, only about 17,000 new houses have been constructed while the damaged houses have mostly been patched up with weak, temporary materials. Much more is needed to help the cyclone survivors.
Some of the 500 Houses provided to communites affected by Cyclone Nargis by AMURT & AMURTEL and its partners.
Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states were lashed by torrential monsoon rains in late September 2009 which resulted in the worst flooding in decades. More than a million people are still living in temporary camps and food supplies to several millions have been severely disrupted.
AMURT & AMURTEL volunteers from the two states along with reinforcements from around India distribute water, dry foods, clothes and blankets. We also provide urgent medical services as well as psycho-social care. The operation has benefited more than 100,000 people in the last two months.
We need donations to meet the needs of all those people who have lost everything.
Four typhoons hit Luzon, in the Philippines in 33 days, with a death toll of more then 1100; thousands of hectares of land flooded and rendered unusable for agriculture for the next two months at the best. Thousands of houses were washed away and up to half a million people affected with hundreds of thousands of people needing to be relocated to safer places. Currently more than a hundred thousand are still in evacuation centres in the affected areas.
Ever since the first typhoon on September 26 AMURT & AMURTEL Relief Teams has been working round the clock to extend help and comfort the affected people.
Summary of service rendered from September 26-November 2, 2009:
- Served hot meals to approximately 55.000 people.
- Distributed approximately 12.000 litres of drinking water.
- Offered relief items such as slippers, clothes, dry food, towels, toiletry etc. to 1877 families.
- Offered Medical Service to 333 people
- Ongoing “Healing Art” with 87 children.
AMURT & AMURTEL volunteers responded within hours by serving hot meals The operation continues we appeal for donations. You can donate on-line here.
News : Micro finance: Financial Services with a Human Face Posted by support on Sunday, August 09, 2009 (08:46:41) (697 reads)
As Ms. Never Balkido came up to receive her prize as best entrepreneur of the month she tearfully told her story to the assembled group leaders of Baba’s Foundation Incorporated (BFI) Micro-finance scheme. She started borrowing from BFI in 2004 with her initial loan of $US 83. She used the money to buy vegetables from her neighbors and sell them in the nearby market. Five years and 11 more rounds of borrowing and repayment later, Never was able to buy a small van to transport her ever expanding quantity of vegetables which she collects from many more neighbors in her neighborhood as well as from two others.
News : Volunteer Diary 2 - Myanmar Posted by support on Sunday, August 09, 2009 (08:36:04) (310 reads)
When AMURT & AMURTEL in Malaysia organized a Charity Jumble Sale for our school reconstruction program in Myanmar in March 2009, Cathy Liu chipped in by running a stall selling a few hundred cups of jelly which she had made herself. Then in May 2009, she joined Usha on a trip to Myanmar to see the AMURT & AMURTEL operations there for herself. Below are Cathy’s impressions.
News : Preparing for Difficult Times: Amurtel Responds to the Global Crisis Posted by support on Sunday, August 09, 2009 (08:13:38) (329 reads)
From May 30 to June 2, 2009, 38 women working with Amurtel projects in 21 countries on 6 continents gathered at the Sunrise Farm in Ireland. Using a combination of preplanned workshops and Open Space Technology, participants were able to both network with others sharing similar interests as well as study topics that were relevant to their work in the field.
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