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Knowledge News : Flood Relief in Manila
Posted by support on Friday, October 02, 2009 (03:02:13) (338 reads)



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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.

Contact us for direct bank details.


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Knowledge Team Challenge - Creating a Team out of a Group
Posted by support on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 (21:12:27) (398 reads)

Doing service work we are often tasked with the challenge of making teams out of groups. The objective of all organizations and companies, football clubs, etc. is to create a team out of the individuals that make up the group. A group of individuals are transformed into a team when the following five components
are present:

1. Unity around a common purpose and goal
2. Dependence on each other to achieve this purpose and/ or goal
3. Structure to work together in synergy
4. Empowerment to implement decisions
5. Joint responsibility for the outcome of the task


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