http://www.resources.amurt.net/ AMURT & AMURTEL Resources en-us Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:07:49 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly AMURT & AMURTEL ONLINE RESOURCES News http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.resources.amurt.net/images/banner3.jpg http://www.resources.amurt.net/ http://www.resources.amurt.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=62 This site will be discontinued on March 1, 2012. Its new version is here: www.amurt-amurtel.org Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:07:49 GMT http://www.resources.amurt.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=61 AMURT started working in Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, in late 2010. We decided to focus on the health sector, as the indicators for maternal and child mortality are among the highest in the world. Initially, we launched a primary healthcare initiative in Ebonyi State, the least developed state in the south of the country, joining forces with Action Aid Nigeria, the local government, and the communities we would be partnering with, to open three rural health centers. The initial vision of the health centers, based on community ownership and management, came from local women’s associations. Mothers with babies crowding the waiting room at Offia Oji Health Center Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:44:45 GMT http://www.resources.amurt.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=60 Over the last 20 years, AMURT and AMURTEL have run two family-style children’s homes in Domnesti and Panatau that provided a loving and healthy alternative to the massive, overcrowded and neglectful communist institutions. Since the end of 2008 we have set up transitional apartments for the children, now grown up, so they can lead independent lives. AMURTEL still has a group of 7 smaller children that arrived in 2001 from the maternity ward where they had been abandoned at birth. The youngest is 11 years old, so AMURTEL will provide care for them for at least another 7 years. AMURT: Transitional Program for Homeless Youth In the meantime, building on the experience of transitioning young people towards social integration, AMURT opened a new project, in partnership with the local government, to address the needs of homeless youth. Very few NGOs have taken on this particularly challenging target group – and even fewer programs have been successful in helping them leave the streets and integrate into society. The young men, aged between 18 and 26 years, start learning basic life skills such as cooking, cleaning, and shopping while living together in AMURT’s residential center in Domnesti. AMURT’s program offer disadvantaged youth career planning, employment, decision-making and study skills. Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:30:03 GMT http://www.resources.amurt.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=59 An 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a 10 meter high tsunami wave hit northeastern Japan at 2.46pm on Friday March 11. Thousands of people have have died and hundreds of thousands are affected. Members of AMURT & AMURTEL are in the coastal towns of Sendai, Tamajo, Shichigahama and Tagajo serving the most vulnerable elderly in clearing their houses and providing psycho-social programs for the internally displaced people in the camps managed by the local authorities. Donate securely online for the Japan Disaster Response ->> Team in Tagajo assist elderly in clearing debris from their houses Read More | Download fund raising poster | Updates on our Facebook Page | More photos Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:38:55 GMT http://www.resources.amurt.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=58 AMURT & AMURTEL volunteers in New Zealand distribute 1,000 bottles of After Shock Bach Flower Rescue Remedy after the massive earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand on February 23, 2011. For more info visit their Facebook Page or download their report here. Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:42:35 GMT http://www.resources.amurt.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=57 AMURT has helped mobilize an army of 10,000 people in northwestern Haiti to reforest their dying watershed. They live in poor communities overwhelmed by the population influx following the 2010 earthquake. “Many people ran away from the Port au Prince disaster to live in the province”, recalls Jacques Vilgar, “A community already in a very bad socio-economic situation became twice as bad.” Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:32:01 GMT http://www.resources.amurt.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=56 “Cholera is not endemic to Haiti, so people are getting very sick, very fast after contracting it,” explains Patrica Munday, AMURTEL’s program coordinator in Haiti.She is part of an AMURTEL medical team that travelled ecently to remote areas hit by the cholera epidemic, which has claimed thousands of lives and could affect another 400,000 according to the US CDC. AMURTEL’s mobile medical team has seen 12,000 patients since the earthquake in January 2010, and continues to serve the most needy. In addition, AMURTEL community organisers work in the tent settlements to promote disease prevention there. Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:11:09 GMT http://www.resources.amurt.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=55 Abha Seva Sadan Multitherapy Charitable Health Centre (ASSMCH) located in Kashijharia village, Jharkhand State, has been offering treatment in Acupuncture, Homeopathy and Allopathy (Western medicine) since May 2005. Recently physiotherapy was added. In 2009, 11,035 patients were treated with an average of 919 patients treated per month and 44 the highest number in one day. Mother’s Day nutrition seminar for women - Parents of disabled children learn stretching techniques Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:19:28 GMT http://www.resources.amurt.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=54 AMURT & AMURTEL sent an emergency response team to Padang, Indonesia immediately after the earthquake in West Sumatra on 30 September 2009. After the initial emergency response period, AMURTEL identified a need for Early Childhood Development (ECD). Those children most vulnerable after a disaster of this magnitude need the structure, safety, and support an Early Childhood Program (ECD) can provide. The Indonesian government was unable to include this important sector in its reconstruction budget and plans, so Amurtel chose this as our long term focus. Children in the Better World program practice exercise routines and Indonesian teachers practice new songs Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:07:36 GMT http://www.resources.amurt.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=53 Rurapuk means “people who help each other” in Quechua, the language of the ancient Incas. The Rurapuk Project is run by AMURTEL in Lima, Peru. It is located in an area of Lima called Paraiso Alto, which is in a zone of extreme poverty. In Paraiso Alto, there is no running water or sewerage system and most of the people live in one-room shacks with dirt floors. The center of the Rurapuk Project houses the Rurapuk Hot Lunch Program which serves a free hot lunch to 30 children and 2 elderly ladies five days a week. It also is the meeting place for Rurapuk Mothers, a women’s handicrafts collective. The local community learn reflexology and Face painting brightens up the day at the Rurapuk Center Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:52:36 GMT