InterAction Member Tsunami Response Accountability Report
A Guide to Humanitarian and Development Efforts of InterAction Members in Tsunami-Affected Areas
December 26, 2004 – March 26, 2005
Photo courtesy of Stop Hunger Now/ Ray Buchanan/2005 Produced by Kimberly Ferlauto With the Humanitarian Policy and Practice Unit of
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Tsunami Accountability Report Preface:
This report is dedicated to the 226,000 men, women, and children believed to have lost their lives in one of history's most devastating natural disasters. It also is an expression of appreciation to the millions of Americans who responded so quickly to the plight of those requiring help to overcome the immediate and longer-term consequences of the catastrophe.
The American public showed its generosity and compassion towards those affected by the December 26, 2004 tsunami in donating $1.48 billion in cash and gifts-in-kind to InterAction member agencies to assist survivors. This initial report describes how those funds were employed in the first 90 days following the tsunami. This was the period in which many members that had not previously been in the area were initiating operations and those member agencies previously working in the region were encountering the usual obstacles to undertaking humanitarian operations in areas that have been devastated by catastrophic natural disasters. These are among the reasons why expenditures during the initial 90 days, though very substantial, were modest in relation to the total funds received. More significantly, most member agencies will be providing not only humanitarian assistance but aiding in recovery and reconstruction over the 3- to 5-year timeframes during which they anticipate using all funds received for those affected by the tsunami. InterAction plans to issue further periodic reports on members’ programs and expenditures. This report supplements information being provided by numerous member agencies on their websites. It does not include the many programs members undertook using funds received from the United States government, United Nations agencies, other foreign governments, and their overseas affiliates.
Of the $1.48 billion that InterAction members received in private funds and gifts-in-kind from individuals, corporations, and foundations in the United States, they spent $254.2 million in the 90 days following December 26, 2004 to assist tsunami-affected populations throughout the region. This number includes the amounts of money disbursed by the reporting agencies on commodities, services, employees salaries, transportation costs, normal overhead costs, and other direct expenditures related to the delivery of goods and services to those being assisted in the tsunami-affected countries. This represents an expenditure rate of 17%. The rate is consistent with most members' plans to remain engaged for 3 to 5 years in recovery and reconstruction programs that will be designed and implemented together with their local partners and beneficiaries.
As the following pages indicate, InterAction members are present throughout the region, are engaged in a wide variety of relief activities, and are beginning to formulate, and in some cases are already implementing, medium-term recovery and reconstruction projects.
"We must remember that reconstruction does not happen overnight. It takes time and requires patience and determination." -UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, former President William J. Clinton
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Action Against Hunger ...... 5 Air Serv International...... 6 American Friends Service Committee ...... 7 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee ...... 8 American Jewish World Service...... 10 American Red Cross ...... 12 American Refugee Committee...... 14 AmeriCares ...... 16 AMURT...... 18 Baptist World Aid ...... 19 Brother’s Brother Foundation...... 20 CARE USA...... 21 Catholic Relief Services...... 22 Christian Children's Fund ...... 24 Christian Reformed World Relief Committee ...... 26 Church World Service...... 27 Concern Worldwide ...... 29 Counterpart International...... 30 Direct Relief International ...... 31 Doctors of the World-USA...... 33 Episcopal Relief and Development...... 34 Food for the Hungry...... 36 Gifts In Kind International...... 38 Habitat for Humanity International...... 39 Heart to Heart International...... 41 Helen Keller International...... 42 INMED Partnerships for Children...... 43 Interchurch Medical Assistance...... 44 International Aid ...... 46 International Orthodox Christian Charities...... 49 International Reading Association...... 50 International Relief and Development ...... 51 International Relief Teams...... 52 International Rescue Committee...... 54 Jesuit Refugee Service/USA...... 55 Lutheran World Relief...... 56 Mercy Corps...... 58 Mercy-USA for Aid and Development ...... 60 National Peace Corps Association...... 61 Northwest Medical Teams ...... 62 Operation USA...... 64 Oxfam America...... 65 Plan USA...... 66 Project HOPE...... 67
3 Refugees International...... 68 Relief International ...... 69 Salvation Army World Service Organization...... 71 Save the Children USA...... 73 Trickle Up Program ...... 74 United Methodist Committee on Relief...... 75 USA for UNHCR...... 76 U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants...... 77 U.S. Fund for UNICEF ...... 78 World Concern...... 79 World Hope International...... 81 World Relief...... 82 World Vision...... 84
4 Action Against Hunger
Action Against Hunger -USA's (AAH-USA) mission is to save lives by combating hunger, physical suffering and situations of distress, which endanger the lives of men, women and children. Action Against Hunger -USA's involvement usually begins with emergency relief in response to a crisis. Relief is always reinforced by longer term programs enabling victims to regain their autonomy and the means to live independently without relying on external aid. In carrying out its activities, Action Against Hunger -USA abides by the following principles: independence, impartiality, nondiscrimination, free and direct access to victims, professionalism and transparency. All members of Action Against Hunger-USA around the world adhere to these principles and undertake to comply with them.
AAH-USA raised $1,288,000 for tsunami response. Funds raised in the United States will be combined with those raised by the other Action Against Hunger affiliates to finance the recovery and reconstruction phase of the tsunami response. These efforts will build on the relief response that was financed by the other AAH affiliates. The aim of the rehabilitation programs will be to restore food security and economic independence to the people affected by the tsunami while avoiding the creation of dependency. Private funds raised by AAH-USA will be used to fund water infrastructure reconstruction and programs to restart normal livelihoods.
Total Private Donations: $1,288,000
Media Contact: John Sauer, (212) 967-7800 ext. 103
For more information, please visit: http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/news/updates_tsunami.html
5 Air Serv International
Air Serv International is a humanitarian organization that uses aircraft to bring relief workers and supplies into some of the most desperate situations in the world. We are one of the few air carriers that is both nonprofit and non-governmental. Our primary objective is to provide safe, dependable and cost-effective air transportation to agencies involved in relief and development. We specialize in small single- and twin-engine aircraft in remote locations. Our ability to immediately respond and operate in difficult environments is the result of a highly committed and trained team of professionals. Air Serv managers, pilots, mechanics, dispatchers, and other field staff are truly international, with Canadians, Africans, Europeans, Australians and Americans making up the team. Launched in 1984 as Africa entered one of its worst human crises, Air Serv has played a crucial role in humanitarian response by giving quick access to those who are critically isolated from emergency aid. Growing out of our early focus area on the African continent, Air Serv has or is also providing humanitarian flight services in Central America, the former Soviet Union, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Caribbean and Indonesia. Following the earthquake and tsunami, Air Serv International responded with several aircraft, including smaller single- and twin-engine airplanes and helicopters. Our aircraft brought relief workers and supplies to hard-to-reach areas of southeast Asia, including Sumatra and Sri Lanka. There, we work with a number of relief organizations including World Vision, Save the Children and others. We remain in the area today, sling-loading supplies to help the rebuilding effort.
Total Private Donations: $190,000
Media Contact: Stephanie Kenyon, 540-428-2323
For more information, please visit: http://www.airserv.org/tsunami2005_video.html
6 American Friends Service Committee
The AFSC is a Quaker organization that promotes peace, social justice, and humanitarian service while assisting victim of war and other social, economic, and political oppressions. From its beginning in 1917, AFSC staff and volunteers have assisted people in need, without regard to their national origin or their political beliefs. In 1947 the AFSC and British Friends Service Council (now known as Quaker Peace and Social Witness) received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Quakers worldwide for their “silent help from the nameless to nameless.” The AFSC currently has programs in 43 locations throughout the United States and in 22 locations worldwide- in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Holding to the Quaker testimonies of peace, equality, and simplicity, the AFSC seeks to affirm the dignity and promise, as well as the cultural and philosophical value, of every individual.
Indonesia AFSC works with Society for Health, Education, Environment and Peace (SHEEP) a small, flexible and highly skilled organization based in Yogyakarta. Initially, AFSC worked with SHEEP to send medical teams to devastated Aceh Province. AFSC and SHEEP have since expanded their focus to providing assistance in schools and rebuilding homes. To date, four SHEEP volunteer teams have been sent to more than 17 villages around the devastated coastal city of Meulaboh. The teams stayed an average of 2 ½ weeks in the field, providing medical assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs). Thanks to the work of the volunteer teams and the SHEEP office in Yogyakarta, a transit post established in the city of Medan shipped more than 40 tons of supplies to Meulaboh within a week of the tsunami. In Meulaboh, a health station was treating up to 800 people a day. By mid-January, SHEEP reported that the humanitarian post in Jujung Pateha was serving 8,500 displaced people. A fifth team, composed of professionals will stay in Meulaboh for one month to begin the rehabilitation phase by planning housing construction and other projects. SHEEP volunteers are already assisting teachers in tent schools and constructing model housing from coconut wood that can be disassembled and moved to new permanent sites if necessary.
Thailand AFSC is working with several local organizations on addressing the issues related to the status and needs of Burmese migrant workers. Some specific activities are: registration of Burmese migrant workers, including assistance for reissuing permits and advocating this issue to Thai government; support for the unemployed by building a network among the workers and identifying a “middle man” for finding jobs; documentation of dead and missing, which includes assisting the families and relatives to find their loved ones and to properly bury their deceased relatives; establishment of trauma healing centers in tsunami-affected areas that will focus on training local spiritual and grassroots leaders on spiritual based counseling and trauma healing skills to increase their importance in providing spiritual empowerment and trauma healing for the tsunami survivors in their areas.
Total Private Donations: $4,998,000
Media Contact: Tahija Vikalo, (215) 241-7148 For more information, please visit the following website: http://www.afsc.org
7 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Since 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has aided Jewish communities in need around the world. Through its non-sectarian program, development and disaster relief projects have been carried out in 45 countries, many of which have experienced severe dislocation due to extreme poverty, war, natural disaster or political instability. Beneficiaries include populations that are among the most vulnerable, such as children, the elderly, people with disabilities, and refugees. Projects offer professional training that enables local partners to sustain project accomplishments long-term. In addition to conducting its own disaster responses, JDC-IDP coordinates the 46-member Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, which carries out unified Jewish responses during times of crisis on a non-sectarian basis.
Indonesia In Aceh, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is working with its long-time partner, the International Rescue Committee. Projects address material and psychosocial needs of children and families; help to rebuild the devastated health care system; and contribute to long-term income generation and job creation efforts. JDC has also responded to the need for items such as water containers, mattresses, and bed sets that are being distributed to individuals and hospitals. Approximately 40,000 benefited from distribution activities.
Sri Lanka The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is working with the local organization, Sarvodaya, in the districts of Ampara, Kalmunai, and Batticaloa on Sri Lanka’s east coast, and in Galle, on Sri Lanka’s southern tip. Some 47,000 individuals from 20 villages are benefiting from psychosocial services, many of whom are children, women and the elderly. Two thousand children from these villages have been provided with school kits that included school uniforms, shoes, socks, school bags, exercise books, pencils, and a hygiene kit with soap, toothpaste, and a toothbrush. Thirty lower-middle class families are being provided with furniture, bedding, kitchen utensils, cutlery, and linens so that they can return to their homes once repairs are completed.
India The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s work with the Disaster Mitigation Institute focused on providing shelter, reestablishing livelihoods, and distributing emergency items. Five hundred shelters were constructed in five villages of the Vellupuram district, Tamil Nadu. Small grants are helping to restore the livelihoods of 1,200 families in 10 villages, and local professionals will mentor up to 300 residents who wish to start new occupations in non-fishing, higher value sectors. In collaboration with the Meenakshi Mission Hospital, health care is being provided and more than $300,000 worth of pharmaceuticals are being distributed through mobile clinics that visit 200 villages along the Pondicherry coast. A partnership with Caritas/Catholic Relief has provided 750 families in Vypen Island, Kerala, with food, and 500 families with kitchen utensils. Food was provided to 1,500 families over a three-month period in Pondicherry, and to 3,000 families in Andhra Pradesh. Additionally, five hundred children were provided with kits, uniforms, exercise books, and bags that enable them to return to school. JDC also partnered with Vardhman Sanskar Dham (VSD Trust) in Aayampettai village in Cuddlaore to provide 67 families with shelter.
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Thailand The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is partnering with the local NGO, Population and Community Development Association (PDA) to establish 10 youth camps for 500 young adult tsunami victims from the south. They will take part in activities such as hiking and swimming, as well as classes on topics such as the dangers of drug use over a one-week period in a supportive environment. When the “campers” return home, follow-up activities will allow them to take on leadership roles and work with other youth to revitalize their communities. One session has been completed, and all ten sessions are expected to take place by the first quarter of 2006. JDC has also joined with PDA in a one-year effort to rehabilitate the village of Ban Pat in Muang District, Phang Nga Province, in cooperation with local leaders. School scholarships, meals, clothes, and supplies will be provided; income-generating activities will be restored; and water, sanitation and waste management services will be reestablished.
Long –Term Commitment: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee will take part in the long-term rebuilding of infrastructure in the most devastated countries. Planning for this stage has begun with local partners, in coordination with lead agencies and local authorities.
Total Private Contributions: $18,000,000
Media Contact: Joshua Berkman, 212-687-6200
For more information, please visit: http://www.jdc.org
9 American Jewish World Service
American Jewish World Service is a not-for-profit international development organization that works to alleviate poverty, hunger and disease throughout the developing world on a non- sectarian basis. AJWS provides humanitarian aid, technical support and skilled volunteers to more than 160 community-based organizations in Africa, Asia and the Americas that are working to eradicate child labor, end female genital cutting, deter the AIDS pandemic, become agriculturally sustainable, respond to disasters, and provide income-generating and micro-credit programs to women who bear the brunt of poverty in the world. Through its Jewish Community Development Fund, 40 Jewish renewal and interfaith human rights projects are supported in Russia and Ukraine. AJWS provides a vehicle through which American Jews can be engaged as global citizens, working for the betterment of humanity.
AJWS began its support of tsunami relief efforts on December 27th, and is committed to working in each of these countries with tsunami-affected communities for at least five years, if not longer. Having made a total of 35 grants to date for tsunami-affected regions, AJWS will continue to support long-time partners in the region and newly acquired ones to provide rehabilitation and reconstruction for many years to come.
India Eleven AJWS project partners are working in the hard-hit coastal regions of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh providing emergency relief and supporting micro-credit, public health, education, and public policy initiatives. They are committed to empowering the poor and marginalized, specifically women and children, and aiding heavily affected fishing communities. AJWS grants support livelihoods projects, including the repair and purchase of fishing boats, nets, and equipment; microfinance for women’s income generation projects; the distribution of direct material assistance, such as food, medicine and shelter items; psychosocial counseling; provision of school supplies for children; housing construction; identification and documentation of the missing and dead; and oversight to ensure equity and fairness in the distribution of disaster assistance. Project durations range from several weeks to one year. More than 200,000 people are estimated to benefit directly and indirectly from these projects.
Indonesia AJWS is supporting twelve non-governmental organizations working in Aceh and North Sumatra who are providing emergency relief and addressing issues of public health, sanitation, education, and livelihoods needs. They are distributing food, water, medicine, and shelter items; improving water sources; providing medical treatment and psychosocial counseling; supporting women’s empowerment; providing scholarships for children; aiding in the repair and purchase of boats for fishermen; monitoring aid distribution; providing aid to those excluded from military’s efforts and advocating for their right to receive assistance. Projects range in duration from several months to a year. These projects are benefiting more than 300,000 people.
Somalia AJWS is supporting two Somali groups working in the regions of Sanaag and North Somalia (Puntland) whose efforts are in the sectors of public health, sanitation, and micro-credit. In Puntland, they are working to improve the water supply and sanitation services in 10 villages
10 where shelter and water sources were destroyed by the tsunami. In Sanaag, women head-of- households are receiving livelihoods training and will be eligible to receive loans from a revolving fund. These projects will last 3 and 6 months respectively, are expected to benefit 23,500 people directly and indirectly.
Sri Lanka AJWS is partnering with six organizations providing aid to the North Eastern, Eastern, and Southern coasts of Sri Lanka who are working in the areas of public health, sanitation, reconstruction, women’s empowerment, and micro-credit. In addition to providing relief supplies, these partner organizations are improving water supplies, financing micro-credit projects for women, purchasing boats, nets, and other fishing equipment, and advocating for poor women and refugees. Projects range in duration from several weeks to more than one year and are benefiting some 225,000 people.
Thailand AJWS’s four project partners are aiding communities in six tsunami-affected provinces of Southern Thailand, mainly in the area of income generation. They are providing livelihoods support in the form of skills transfers, income-generating workshops, assistance to repair or construct new fishing boats, grants to small business owners and financial assistance to destitute families whose government support has been delayed. In addition, they have created a community newsletter and are dispensing legal advice. These projects range in duration from several months to one year and benefit approximately 8,000 people.
Total Private Donations: $10,610,264
Media Contact: Ronni Strongin, 212-273-1657
For more information, please visit: http://www.ajws.org/index.cfm?section_id=15&sub_section_id=0&page_id=42
11 American Red Cross
For more than one hundred years, the American Red Cross has been giving people who can help others a means to reach those in need. Founded in 1881 and chartered by Congress in 1905 as the only voluntary agency “to carry out a system of national and international relief in time of peace,” this humanitarian, volunteer-led organization is part of the worldwide Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement. All Red Cross/Red Crescent activities are guided by seven fundamental principles: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. Its mission is to provide relief to victims of disaster and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. The American Red Cross is part of a unique network of 181 national societies and, in overseas operations, it supports its host country national society and Movement partners in implementing disaster and humanitarian programs.
Indonesia The American Red Cross (ARC) provided funding, through the World Food Programme (WFP) and WFP partnership agencies, for the local and regional purchase, management, and distribution of culturally-appropriate food commodities that have met the food needs of 590,570 disaster- affected beneficiaries in Banda Aceh, Meulaboh, Lhokseumawe, Simeuleu, Calang, Lamno, Aceh Besar, and Medan. ARC provided non-food relief items that included 2,000 family tents, 380 rolls of tarpaulin, 60,000 mosquito nets, 40,000 family hygiene kits, 10,000 cooking sets, 20,000 tarps, and 10,000 ropes. ARC sent eight relief personnel to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation) to conduct damage and needs assessments, to coordinate relief efforts, and to support the distribution of relief items. To address emergency health needs, ARC has supported the United Nations Foundation, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in immunizing 755,000 children in Aceh and North Sumatra provinces against the measles, a highly contagious disease, as well as in providing the children with Vitamin A. Public health interventions also include distributing insecticide-treated bed nets for malaria control and providing de-worming medicines to maintain public health in and around Aceh. Assessments conducted by ARC water and sanitation and disaster mental health experts, in areas including Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, and Calang, have formed the basis of longer term programming.
Maldives ARC provided funding, through WFP and WFP partnership agencies, for the local and regional purchase, management, and distribution of culturally-appropriate food commodities that have met the food needs of 50,000 people. An ARC water and sanitation expert participated in assessments that identified items necessary to repairing or reconstructing water and sanitation systems. ARC provided 200 2,500-liter and 77 10,000-liter water tanks to help meet water and sanitation needs. ARC contributed 4,000 family hygiene kits. To address the emotional needs of those affected, ARC conducted a Psychological First Aid Program that trained 57 counselors and community volunteers on 27 islands to provide support to 22,238 people. A second program trained 321 teachers on 10 atolls to help support the psychological needs of 89,338 students.
Somalia ARC is providing funding through United Nations agencies to support emergency measles vaccinations and other emergency-health interventions scheduled to begin in July 2005 and
12 through which it is anticipated that about three million children will be vaccinated. Planning sessions have been held, and vaccinations and syringes have been purchased.
Sri Lanka An ARC family linking/tracing specialist was a member of joint International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)/Sri Lankan Red Cross Society mobile teams that restored links between separated family members unable to communicate with one another due to the tsunami. The teams visited more than 300 welfare centers in southern and eastern Sri Lanka. Displaced persons were offered the use of a satellite phone to call family members or the opportunity to fill out a specialized message saying they are alive and seeking family members. More than 1,700 calls were made, and 417 “I am alive” messages were collected and posted on the ICRC web site and in national media. ARC provided funding, through WFP and WFP partnership agencies, for the local and regional purchase, management, and distribution of food items that have met the food needs of 915,000 beneficiaries. ARC distributed 3,576 family tents; 5,900 blankets; 3,520 tarpaulins; 4,900 family kitchen sets; 4,800 jerry cans; 35,000 family hygiene kits; 40,000 kerosene lanterns; 255,000 sleeping mats; cholera kits; and emergency health kits. ARC logistics and relief experts worked with Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement partners to receive and clear relief shipments from Customs, and to help with the warehousing and transport of goods into the field for distribution. ARC’s Relief Emergency Response Unit helped the Sri Lankan Red Cross Society identify and register beneficiaries and distribute non-food assistance to 260,000 people in Galle, Matata, Hambantota, and Ampara. ARC water and sanitation experts conducted assessments and helped the Sri Lankan Red Cross Society distribute water to affected communities. ARC disaster mental health teams conducted assessments and teacher training in Matara, assisting 320 children. Supplies were provided to 82 teachers, materials were provided to 1,000 students, and 500 books, replacing those destroyed by the tsunami, were sent to the school’s library.
Long-term Response: ARC is developing long-term response plans for water and sanitation, psychological and social services, disaster planning and preparedness, health promotion, and restoring family links programs in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand. Programming is being considered for Bangladesh, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Myanmar, Seychelles, Somalia, and Tanzania. The balance of Tsunami Relief and Recovery Plan funds will support programs to be implemented over the coming months and years.
Note: Preliminary financial data is based on information available at the time of reporting and may be revised in subsequent reports based on updated data. For information on future expenditures, please refer to “long-term response” section. ARC is not charging overhead expense to tsunami donations.
Total Private Donations: US $481,273,000
Media Contact: Patrick McCrummen, 202-303-4288
For more information, please visit: http://www.redcross.org/tsunamirelief
13 American Refugee Committee
American Refugee Committee is a U.S. based, private, non-profit, nonsectarian humanitarian aid organization working for the survival, health and well being of refugees, displaced persons and those at risk by providing medical care, water/sanitation, education and capacity building services. American Refuge Committee strives not merely to provide emergency aid to those in need, but also to enable them to achieve self-sufficiency by providing health training, micro credit/income generation, legal assistance, counseling, repatriation and reintegration, and shelter reconstruction. American Refugee Committee has been in existence for 25 years and is currently operating in 13 locations in Europe, Africa, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.
American Refugee Committee Tsunami Response Through private fundraising efforts American Refugee Committee secured funding sufficient to provide immediate assistance to three countries, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand in the form of deployment of disaster relief specialists and distribution of non-food items and medical supplies. All activities thus far have been funded solely through private funds.
Sri Lanka In early January, American Refugee Committee sent an assessment team to Sri Lanka to evaluate damage related to the tsunami. Focusing in Trincomalee District, they met with Government of Sri Lanka representatives, international organizations, donor agencies, United Nations institutions and local populations. Based on assessment findings and working through local organizations and UNHCR, American Refugee Committee is currently implementing two Quick Impact Projects (QIP) within affected local villages and IDP camps in Trincomalee district. The goal of both projects is to meet immediate humanitarian gaps and needs through the provision of quick impact small grants for emergency services assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) affected by both the tsunami disaster and civil conflict. For the first project, American Refugee Committee has partnered with Population Services Lanka (PSL) to fund projects related to non-food item distribution, including hygiene kits, essential health supplies and cooking sets. The second project is in partnership UNHCR and implementing partner Trincomalee District Development Association (TDDA). Activities focus on distributing small grants to local NGOs in the areas of non-food item distribution, temporary shelters, community works, and livelihood activities to assist resident populations directly and indirectly affected by the tsunami disaster, including conflict IDPs. Due to the tragic effects of the tsunami, American Refugee Committee foresees an ongoing need for assistance to internally displaced persons in Sri Lanka, especially for those vulnerable groups who were already displaced prior to the disaster. Current plans include continuing to provide support for quick impact projects and establishing projects that can address longer-term gaps and needs.
Thailand In southern Thailand American Refugee Committee has intensively and continuously assessed the situation in the most impacted villages. American Refugee Committee immediately delivered life-saving emergency medical supplies and dispatched a team of psychosocial trauma counselors to provide assistance in the immediate post emergency phase and performed rapid assessments, including a psychosocial assessment. Upon learning of the need and desire of those affected by the tsunami to rebuild their livelihoods, American Refugee Committee began to
14 development a boat replacement project in 14 villages along the southern coast. In participation with local residents impacted by the tsunami disaster, and in recognition of their expressed longing to get back to their fishing livelihoods as soon as they are able, American Refugee Committee is responding together with affected communities to support their needs and address their challenges in innovative but practical ways that villagers support. The impact of the project will be restored livelihoods for affected fishermen’s families and renewed hope and determination of villagers through the process of rebuilding productive lives of dignity and purpose. The values and views of fishermen, impacted women and their families have been and will continue to be included in the further planning of the project and its implementation throughout the project duration. Implementation is now in the initial stages throughout the project target area. Given American Refugee Committee’s extensive experience in Thailand over the last 25 years, American Refugee Committee maintains a long relationship with the local health authorities and communities in the area based on American Refugee Committee’s work with infectious disease control and prevention and nearly 30-year presence in Thailand. American Refugee Committee remains in continual contact with the local MOPH, Department of Fisheries, and MOI authorities in Ranong and Phang Nga. All efforts thus far have been supported with private funds. In addition to the boat project American Refugee Committee will also rehabilitate water systems and rebuild playgrounds in a number of villages.
Indonesia In Indonesia, American Refugee Committee dispatched a team of two medical doctors and two logistics personnel to perform rapid assessments in Banda Aceh and to provide immediate medical assistance. The American Refugee Committee team worked with local and international NGOs both in assessments and in direct clinical service implementation, including leading a measles vaccination campaign for 80,000 children. Due to funding considerations, American Refugee Committee will not be pursuing a sustained presence in Indonesia at this time.
Total Private Donations: $1,611,000
Media Contact: Therese Gales, (612) 872-7060
For more information, please visit: http://www.archq.org
15 AmeriCares
AmeriCares is a nonprofit disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization providing immediate response to emergency medical needs, as well as supporting long-term humanitarian assistance programs, for all people around the world, irrespective of race, creed or political persuasion. AmeriCares solicits donations of medicines, medical supplies and other relief materials from U.S. and international manufacturers, and delivers them quickly and efficiently to partner organizations around the world. Since its founding, AmeriCares has provided more than $4.0 billion of aid in more than 137 countries.
Indonesia Since the Tsunami struck, AmeriCares has delivered more than $2.9 million of aid to the affected areas in Indonesia. AmeriCares operated three airlifts of medicines, medical supplies and water purification treatments into Banda Aceh. We have been a major supplier for malaria prevention efforts, providing spraying cans, 500,000 rapid diagnostic kits, and combined therapy treatments for 30,000 people. We have distributed food storage kits that include bowls, cups and large containers to over 20,000 internally displaced families. Our reconstruction efforts are focusing on the re-equipping of healthcare facilities in partnership with the Indonesian Ministry of Health and other NGO's. We are providing Banda Aceh's Public Health Laboratory with the equipment it needs to replace equipment lost in the tsunami and resume service as the region's epidemiological surveillance lab, as well as providing technical training to the staff. AmeriCares will be providing the equipment for 51 satellite health centers and a number of primary health facilities. Our efforts will continue to focus on rehabilitation of destroyed infrastructure, with particular attention to the healthcare sector.
Sri Lanka On December 29th, AmeriCares’ first airlift of relief supplies landed in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Since then, we have delivered nearly $3 million in medicines, medical supplies, water purification treatments and other relief supplies. 2,500 family tents are being distributed to affected coastal communities and 5,000 families are receiving food storage kits that include bowls, cups and large containers. AmeriCares' Water Engineering Team has surveyed three districts and conducted assessments on water quality. We have a large scale water-sector project that will be implemented in the near term. This project will provide safe drinking water to 46,000 displaced people, as well as to three hospitals. AmeriCares is also currently engaged in a partnership with the Ministry of Health to re-equip three major hospitals, and we expect our activities to expand in the health and water sectors.
India AmeriCares has partnered with the Government of the State of Tamil Nadu to deliver over $8 million of essential medicines and medical supplies to healthcare institutions in the tsunami- affected areas. These relief supplies were distributed to more than 30 hospitals and clinics throughout 11 of the worst affected districts, including Nagapattinam and Cuddalore. We continue to assess needs and expect to be involved in rehabilitation efforts for the health sector.
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Total Private Donations: $115,000,000
Media Contact: Cecilia Fabrizio, 1-800-486-4357
For more information, please visit: http://www.americares.org
17 AMURT
AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) is one of the few private voluntary organizations of Third World origin, being founded in India in 1965. Its original objective was to help meet the needs of victims of disasters that regularly hit the Indian sub-continent. Over the years AMURT has established teams in eighty countries, to create a network that can meet development and disaster needs almost anywhere in the world. In 1985 we broadened our goals to include long-term development. We feel we can play a useful role in helping the poor break the cycle of poverty and gain greater control over their lives. For us, development is human exchange: people sharing wisdom, knowledge and experience to build a better world.
Indonesia AMURT started working for the disaster affected people of Aceh on December 28, sending in food from Medan. Since then we have distributed over 20,000 parcels of food and water. We also provided 1340 family resettlement kits and recreational kits for 2000 children in the resettlement camps. We also assisted the military in disposing of dead bodies. We ran eye camps throughour Aceh Besar District, benefiting 607 people. We are still providing non-formal education to 100 children in two resettlement camps. AMURT has adopted the village of Neuheun and is helping the villagers rebuild their lives. We are in the process of rehabilitating 42 brick kilns in the village, rebuilding 35 houses and repairing 16 houses. Our commitment is through the end of 2005.
India In phase one of the relief work our team located and buried or cremated all the dead bodies in and around Keerakolaichal in Nagapattinam district. We were able to locate the bodies with the help of military helicopters, and the villagers and townspeople themselves. Grief-stricken tsunami survivors would approach us asking us to carry their dead relatives away. We disposed of 322 bodies from December 28 to January 2. In phase two our volunteers split up into smaller groups and helped the local people clean and repair their damaged houses. Some volunteers provide counseling, games and sports for the traumatized children. We ceased our operation in India on 1/31/05
Total Private Donations: $95,000
Media Contact: Peter Sage, 301-984-0217
For more information, please visit: http://www.amurt.net
18 Baptist World Aid
Baptist World Aid is the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, and has been caring for those in need, irrespective of their race, creed or color for over 85 years. The hungry have been fed, and the sick healed. The naked have been clothed and the imprisoned visited. Medicines and medical equipment have been provided, and educational, medical and agricultural projects supported.
Sri Lanka Baptist World Aid has been working with a number of groups in Sri Lanka. Through our local Baptist body, the Sri Lanka Baptist Sangamaya, funds have been given for food distribution and meeting immediate needs of survivors. Currently temporary housing is being constructed to enable survivors to move from the hot tents into more home-like structures. Plans are underway for construction of permanent homes and schools. Hungarian Baptist Aid was on the scene by December 28th with a medical and emergency rescue team. They are continuing work in Sri Lanka with housing and work with children. Other Baptist groups such as the North Carolina Baptist Men and Texas Baptist Men have sent teams in to feed, clean wells and construct temporary housing. BWAid has also given grants to two ecumenical groups, LEADS and NCRASL to help with their tsunami relief efforts.
Indonesia Baptist World Aid has helped the Union of Indonesian Baptist Churches with funding. They have sent medical doctors, nurses and volunteers to the area of Aceh every two weeks. We continue to work with the Union of Indonesian Baptist Churches and the Asian Baptist Federation with rebuilding efforts. Baptist World Aid also helped fund a medical team of Hungarian Baptist Aid who worked in the Aceh area.
India BWAid has worked with indigenous groups in India. Local Baptist groups such as the Telugu Baptist Fellowship, Serve Trust, NPBSS-Nellore and General Baptists received funding from Baptist World Aid for their relief efforts. Ecumenical groups EFICORE, CASA and ALMA also received BWAid funds. Our regional fellowship, the Asian Baptist Federation also received funds for their work in India.
Thailand The Thailand Baptist Missionary Fellowship has been our channel for relief efforts in Thailand.
Total Private Donations: $1,865,600
Media Contact: Paul Montacute, (703) 790-8980
For more information, please visit: http://www.bwanet.org/bwaid
19 Brother’s Brother Foundation
The Brother's Brother Foundation (BBF) is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to relief and humanitarian assistance efforts through the world. Our mission is to promote international health and education through efficient and effective distribution of donated pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, textbooks, educational supplies, food, clothing, seed and other resources. The BBF motto, “connecting people’s resources with people’s needs” is accomplished through gift-in-kind contributions that are distributed upon request and identification of need within less developed and developing countries in partnership with US- based and in-country NGOs. BBF assists people without regard to race, creed, religion, or politics.
Sri Lanka BBF is funding school development/reconstruction and rain water harvesting for a children’s home, along with shipments of medical supplies.
India BBF is funding hospital/school renovations, purchases of fishing boats, nets, community shelters, ambulances as well as replenishment of educational materials, humanitarian assistance and medical supplies.
Indonesia BBF is helping to fund health needs assessments, vitamin A provisions and medical supplies.
Total Private Donations: $1,821,007
Media Contact: Karen Dempsey, (412) 237-2324
For more information, please visit: http://www.brothersbrother.org
20 CARE USA
CARE USA is part of CARE International, a confederation of 12 national members dedicated to fighting poverty in the world's poorest communities. Last year, poverty-fighting programs largely funded by CARE USA improved the lives of more than 45 million people in 70 countries. CARE tackles underlying causes of poverty so that people can become self-sufficient. Recognizing that women and children suffer disproportionately from poverty, CARE places special emphasis on working with women to create social change. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives afterward.
CARE USA and other members of CARE International pooled all private funds they received for tsunami response. These funds were allocated to specific humanitarian, recovery and reconstruction activities in a process that does not permit distinguishing the use of contributions received from American donors from the uses made of contributions received from private donors in the other countries where the members of CARE International raised funds. For information on the tsunami-related activities of members of CARE International, consult the following Web site: http://www.careusa.org/newsroom/featurestories/2004/dec/20041227_aqdresponse.asp
Total Private Donations: $44,000,000
Media Contact: Lurma Rackley 404-979-9450
21 Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief Services carries out relief and development programs in more than 90 countries around the world. Founded in 1943, CRS is the official overseas relief and development agency of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB). CRS provides assistance on the basis of need, regardless of nationality, race or religion. CRS works towards its mission by responding to victims of natural and human-made disasters; by providing assistance to the poor to alleviate their immediate needs; by supporting self-help programs which involve people and communities in their own development; by helping those it serves to restore and preserve their dignity and to realize their potential; and by helping to educate the people of the United States in ways to alleviate human suffering, remove its causes and promote social justice.
CRS is responding to the tsunami in India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. For each of these countries, CRS developed a five-year tsunami response strategy that involves emergency relief and distribution, reconstruction and rehabilitation of infrastructure and livelihoods, and long- term disaster preparedness and capacity building of communities.
India CRS and Caritas India have joined together to implement a five-year response to the tsunami emergency. CRS and Caritas India are working with 18 diocesan partners in Tamil Nadu/Pondicherry, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. CRS is also one of the few organizations granted permission by the Indian Government to respond to the tsunami’s effects on the Andaman and Nicobar islands. The CRS tsunami response in India has three objectives: (1) restoring livelihoods, emotional balance, and shelter to tsunami affected families; (2) equipping communities in tsunami-affected states to deal with natural disaster; and, (3) building safety mechanisms to protect those made most vulnerable by the tsunami, including women, children, and people living with HIV/AIDs. Programmatic sectors include food and non-food distribution, construction of temporary and permanent shelter, rebuilding livelihoods and incomes, health/medicine, water/sanitation, education, trauma counselling, capacity building, peacebuilding, gender-sensitivity, child protection, anti-trafficking initiatives, community-based disaster preparedness, and HIV/AIDS. To date, the joint CRS-Caritas response provided humanitarian relief to 430,000 tsunami-affected persons through 23 local partners. Over the 5- year program, CRS and Caritas India hope to support permanent shelter and/or livelihood restoration for 22,000 families (110,000 total direct beneficiaries). In addition, the program aims to help make thousands of communities safer five years.
Indonesia CRS is serving as the lead agency for a multi-agency response on behalf of Caritas Internationalis. CRS is implementing a five-year response in Aceh. The CRS tsunami response in Indonesia has three objectives: (1) restoring households and community assets to tsunami- affected families; (2) supporting local groups in building livelihoods; and (3) increased use of health services and improved health practices. Programmatic sectors include food distribution, construction of temporary and permanent shelter, rebuilding livelihoods, health/medicine, water/sanitation, education, trauma counselling, capacity building, peacebuilding, and gender sensitivity. CRS established three new offices in Aceh (Banda Aceh, Medan, and Meulaboh) and is concentrating on the areas in Aceh most severely affected by the tsunami. CRS has also
22 established a new office in Nias after the March earthquake. Thus far, CRS’ assistance reached 60,000. During the first 4 months of it’s 5 year response, CRS has provided 60,000 displaced people with nutritionally complete daily rations of food, family kits, temporary shelter, water and sanitation and health care support. Together with partners, CRS is rehabilitating wells, distributing kits that include kitchen and hygiene supplies, and distributing water purification tablets. Over the next five years CRS will work with Acenese communities to help restore their livelihoods through small enterprise activities, rebuild homes and community structures like schools and clinics, rehabilitate health and marketing infrastructure and most importantly strengthen community capacities. CRS plans to commit over $100 million in private funds over 5 years.
Sri Lanka CRS is partnering with Caritas Sri Lanka-SEDEC (Social and Economic Development Centre), Caritas Batticaloa-EHED, Caritas-SED Galle and Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS), and closely collaborating with Caritas Internationalis. CRS did not have an office in Sri Lanka prior to the tsunami, though the agency has supported partners there for decades. Given the scale of the tsunami response, CRS will establish a temporary presence in Sri Lanka. The same partners who had worked with CRS on conflict resolution and peace building issues are today involved in tsunami response. CRS is leading the coordination of Caritas Internationalis efforts in the diocese of Galle and in the Ampara district of Trincomalee-Batticaloa dioceses. The CRS response in Sri Lanka has three objectives: (1) helping families reestablish their households; (2) helping children live in an environment conducive to their development and learning; and (3) restoring livelihoods. Sectors include shelter, psychosocial support, livelihood recovery, capacity building, peacebuilding, and gender sensitivity. With our partners, CRS is distributing bed sheets, soap, clothing, and other basic household items to families. We are working with Catholic, Muslim, and Buddhist partners in the hospitals, in schools, and at the community level on trauma counseling initiatives. In addition, we are distributing coloring books and crayons to over 40,000 children as part of trauma counseling initiatives. Within the first 4 months of the response, CRS provided more than two thousand families with temporary shelter. Over the next 5 years CRS plans to support partners and communities to help build permanent shelters, rebuild damaged homes, and repair schools and marketplaces. The total expected beneficiaries is 200,000. CRS envisions committing a total of $20 million in private funds over five years.
CRS is responding with smaller interventions in Thailand.
Total Private Donations: $145,000,000
Media Contact: Cecile Sorra, (410) 951-7215
For more information, please visit: http://www.catholicrelief.org
23 Christian Children's Fund
Christian Children's Fund (CCF) is an international child development organization which works in 32 countries, assisting 7.6 million children and family members regardless of race, creed or gender. CCF works for the well-being of children by supporting locally led initiatives that strengthen families and communities, helping them overcome poverty and protect the rights of their children. CCF's comprehensive programs incorporate health, education, nutrition and livelihood interventions that sustainably protect, nurture and develop children. CCF works in any environment where poverty, conflict and disaster threaten the well-being of children.
Christian Children's Fund is working in three tsunami-affected countries: Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia. In all three countries, CCF provided immediate emergency assistance including food, bedding, and other emergency supplies. CCF has transitioned from immediate emergency assistance to reconstruction and rebuilding. Our activities are focusing on Child Centered Spaces/Child Protection Activities; Water/Sanitation Restoration; Livelihood Interventions; and health campaigns.(The cornerstone of CCF's emergency response is Child Centered Spaces, places where children participate in normalizing activities including structured games, informal education activities, dance, song, art and other psychosocial interventions that help children heal from the traumatic events they've experienced.
Sri Lanka CCF is providing tsunami assistance in the districts of Galle, Hambantota, Matara, Ampara and Trincomalee, establishing 47 Child Centered Spaces in all five districts, assisting 5,442 children (2,155 preschool children attend during the day; 3,287 are in after school activities); 765 mothers participate in child health and well-being programs at the Child Centered Spaces; 1,557 youth are in 25 youth clubs at the Child Centered Spaces. CCF is involved in rebuilding and replacing water/sanitation facilities in Hambantota, Matara and Ampara districts, providing 1,500 families with safe water storage containers using community taps; repairing water storage/distribution systems for three schools, and constructing pipes from water board meters to 150 houses. In addition, CCF is rehabilitating 150 household toilets and three school toilet facilities (these numbers reflect the private share portion of grant funded water-sanitation grants). In addition, CCF is assisting with clean up efforts in Ampara, Hambantota and Matara districts; and is conducting community-based health and hygiene promotion campaigns.
India For the tsunami response, CCF is working in Chennai, Kanyakumari, Nagapattanam, Karaikal, and Cuddlore with primary support through Child Centered Spaces, livelihood interventions, and infrastructure restoration. CCF has established 81 Child Centered Spaces in these districts, assisting 13,000 children. CCF is reconstructing approximately 20 preschools and child care centers; is involved in renovation of approximately 15 canals, wells and ponds in four villages; is cleaning debris and repairing wells in approximately 15 villages as part (these numbers reflect the private share portion of grant funded programs). CCF's livelihood restoration efforts include on-the-job training for youth in catamaran and engine repairs; ongoing fiber boat repair and catamaran repair; distribution of fishing nets; provision of long tail diesel engines and repair of long tail diesel engines; agricultural rehabilitation; and provision of iceboxes for fishing. CCF is
24 also involved in repairing fish drying platforms, and has identified families for small business support.
Indonesia For the tsunami response, CCF is working as ChildFund at 110 sites in Aceh Barat, Aceh Besar, Aceh Jaya, Banda Aceh, and Bireun. 102 Child Centered Spaces have been established, serving 6,159 children. CCF is working with local NGOs in Cash for Work programs with the goal of rehabilitating and reclaiming specific areas along the coast. CCF has distributed health kits to internally displaced people in Meulaboh and nutritional supplements to children. CCF is conducting child protection programs through its Child Centered Spaces, focusing among other things on dangers to children as they are relocated to temporary housing.
Total Private Donations: $8,846,000
Media Contact: Toni Radler, (804) 756-2722
For more information, please visit: http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/tsunami-relief- asia.aspx
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Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
CRWRC’s mission is to address the needs of persons in distress due to poverty or disaster. CRWRC is present in 30 countries, partnering with more than 200 in-country faith organizations, to help local communities improve their standard of living through emergency aid and food for work; primary health, agriculture, and literacy training; micro-enterprise and credit/loan programs; and socio-economic aid. CRWRC addresses environmental needs, human and land rights, civil society issues, refugee resettlement, child labor, gender equity, and peace-making.
India CRWRC worked with its local partner, EFICOR, to respond to the needs of tsunami survivors in the Cuddalore, Ngapattinum, and Kanyakumari districts of Tamil Nadu State. CRWRC provided emergency aid such as temporary shelter, non-food items (e.g. blankets, tarps), and livelihood inputs (e.g. fishing nets, boats) to 11,000 families for three months. CRWRC is also involved in a long-term (30 month), $1.5 million, rehabilitation project in this region.
Indonesia CRWRC concentrated its tsunami response efforts on the needs of survivors in Banda Aceh, Meubolah, Lhokseumawe, Nias Island, and Lhoong districts. In these regions, CRWRC provided emergency aid such as food, water, clothing, shelters, body bags, fishing boats, nets, medical care, and engine reconditioning. This 3-month response reached 10,000 families. CRWRC is also preparing a long-term (30 month), $3 million, rehabilitation program for this region.
Sri Lanka In Sri Lanka, the government decreed that no rebuilding could take place within 300-metres of the beach. This meant that many landless home owners had to find new land and building plots. CRWRC’s response concentrated on the needs in Boosa, Balapitiya, Moratuwa, and Angulana. Here, CRWRC provided temporary shelter as well as emergency food, water, non-food items (e.g. bed mats, sheets, clothing, soap), and school supplies to 1,000 families for 3 months. CRWRC is also planning a long-term (30 month), $3 million, rehabilitation and housing program for this region.
Total Private Donations: $4,500,000
Media Contact: Beth DeGraff, 616-241-1691
For more information, please visit: http://www.crwrc.org
26 Church World Service
Church World Service (CWS), founded in 1946, is the relief, development, and refugee assistance ministry of 36 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations within the United States. Working in partnership with local organizations in more than 80 countries, CWS supports sustainable self-help development, meets emergency needs, aids refugees and addresses the root causes of poverty and powerlessness. CWS provides assistance without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, political affiliation or gender. The mission statement of Church World Service is: Christians working together with partners to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice around the world. Through support including technical assistance, material aid and cash awards, CWS supports field offices and indigenous partners with a track record of accountability, integrity and long-term presence in the countries in which they work. CWS works to ensure positive and sustainable changes through emergency response, reconstruction and development programs.
Indonesia In response to the tsunami, CWS staff and partners have provided emergency relief in the form of food and non-food distributions, water, sanitation, shelter, trauma counseling, and healthcare. In addition, CWS supports local organizations to build capacities and prepare for and mitigate future disasters. CWS has been working in displacement camps and communities in Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, and Meulaboh. To date, CWS has distributed food, tents, blankets, health supplies, school supplies, to over 23,300 people and continues distributions. Food distributions focus on children under five years of age and their families as they are most at risk of malnutrition while the CWS mobile health clinics provide health care in remote areas where there are no other facilities. Thus far, care has been provided to over 3,070 patients through the mobile clinic. In Meulaboh, CWS focuses on water provision for 17,200 people in camps and communities where water access has been cut off. Trauma counseling services have been used by over 7,000 people with a particular focus being placed on services to children including play therapy and education.
Sri Lanka CWS, working through local partners, has responded in locations on the north, east and southern coasts. Specific locations include Vanni, Mullaitivu, Batticaloa, Thirukovil, Ampara, Trinco, Muttur, Galle, Matara, Tangalle, Hambantota, Colombo, Lakutara, Wattala, Negambo. To date, CWS has provided disaster relief supplies including food and water, tents, mats, sheets, mosquito nets, health supplies, kitchen utensils, clothing, and medicine to 14,000 families. Activities, planned to continue through 2006 include continuing distributions, providing temporary shelter and shelter repair, pastoral counseling services, educational support for children, providing assistance for livelihoods and income generation including boats, nets, engines and other needed supplies. CWS is also working on capacity building, women’s empowerment and disaster preparedness and mitigation with partners and local community structures.
India CWS, through historical partnerships with local organizations and was able to respond within days of the tsunami. CWS is providing assistance in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands through local Indian partners. To date, 50,000 people have
27 been provided with disaster assistance including cooked food and drinking water, dry food rations, clothing, bedding and kitchen utensils, tarpaulins, and basic medical aid. Assistance to communities transitioned quickly to include housing rehabilitation, school supplies and uniforms, fishing boats repairs and motors, food for work, cash for work, trauma counseling and pastoral care, livelihood support kits, school repairs, irrigation pumps, agricultural supplies, as well as community organization, capacity building, and disaster preparedness. In India, activities will continue in these areas through 2006.
Thailand In Thailand, the CWS response has been two-fold. First, through our local partner working primarily in Phang Nga and Krabi provinces, CWS has supplied food, water, cooking supplies, baby food, hygiene items and other necessary assistance. Longer-term support in these areas, through 2006, will include pastoral counseling, livelihoods support such as fishing boats, nets, and vocational training as well as educational support to children. CWS is also assisting thousands of beneficiaries and seeking out those in need who lack identity documents and are unable to access government assistance; these groups include ethnic minorities and migrants from neighboring Myanmar (Burma). The second prong of response was through collaboration with the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington DC. CWS donated 100 I.M.A. medicine boxes to the relief efforts of the Thai Government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Coordinating Center. The IMA medicine boxes, each able to assist a 1,000 people for 2-3 months, have been donated to the Thai Red Cross where they will be used in tsunami stricken areas both in the short-term and as hospital donations for the longer-term needs of the areas.
Somalia CWS is assisting 11,200 people in Beinda Bela and Eyl districts with water, sanitation and livelihoods programs. Our partner is assisting communities in constructing water systems, rehabilitating water intake, providing PVC piping and tools for the water committee, training the committee on bookkeeping, and supporting the construction and rehabilitation of 20 shallow wells for livestock usage. With the health committees, we are providing tools for digging and materials for the latrines and providing technical support. For fishermen, boats, nets, hooks and education are being provided. Our partner has been working in Somalia since 1993 and works on a variety of emergency and development programs including education, HIV/AIDS, rural water development, peacebuilding, food security and others. The tsunami response program is an integrated part of the long-term work of our partner.
Total Private Donations: $14,704,000
Media Contact: Donna Derr, 202-544-2350
For more information, please visit: http://www.churchworldservice.org/news/tsunami/TsunamiReport05-05.html
28 Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide is a non-denominational voluntary organization dedicated to the relief, assistance and advancement of those in absolute poverty in the least developed countries of the world. Concern Worldwide has 35 years of experience in responding to emergencies, from the famine in Biafra, Nigeria in 1968 to the recent emergency in Darfur, Sudan. We believe in a world where no one lives in poverty, fear or oppression; where all have access to a decent standard of living and the opportunities and choices essential to a long healthy and creative life; and where everyone is treated with equal dignity and respect. Our mission is to enable absolutely poor people to achieve major improvements in their lives, improvements that are sustainable without ongoing support from Concern. To this end we work with the poor themselves and with local and international partners who share our vision of creating just and peaceful societies where the poor can exercise their fundamental rights.
Concern Worldwide received donations from multiple sources around the world, which were used to meet the immediate needs of the most vulnerable as part of phase 1 of Concern’s response in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Concern Worldwide US received $222,372 from the US public, which will be used to rebuild homes in Sri Lanka and Indonesia as part of Concern’s phase 2 longer term rehabilitation program.
Total Private Donations: $222,372
Media Contact: Laura Wiessen, 212-557-8000
For more information, please visit the following website: http://www.concernusa.org/
29 Counterpart International
Counterpart International (CPI) is a 40-year old NGO that works with local communities to build their capacity to identify, accept, prioritize and act on their local problems in their own self- determined ways. Our approach is grassroots-based, demand-driven and multi-disciplinary integrating humanitarian and relief assistance, healthcare, democracy and governance, food security, enterprise and business, and natural resource management programs. Counterpart's programs are completely transparent, designed with the full participation of local stakeholders, an approach that, in turn, fosters local participation in all levels of project decisions. We are supported by corporations, individuals, foundations and governments.
Sri Lanka CPI coordinated an Emergency Kit drive for tsunami survivors living in refugee camps and other temporary housing situations. Donations in cash and kits came from The Maryland Hosanna Methodist Church, Branches of the Church of Christ, Counterpart employees, friends and family, and three elementary schools. As well as Emergency Kits, CPI sent valuable shipments of medications to partners in Sri Lanka. Counterpart is also rebuilding and rehabilitating an elementary school in Pottuvil in the Ampara District, and equipping it with computers in order to facilitate a cross-cultural exchange between the elementary school and schools in the United States that donated to the school reconstruction initiative. Counterpart is interested in creating long-term school-to-school relationships, which can yield significant two-way cultural, geographic, and environmental understanding and awareness learning opportunities through distance learning mechanisms.
India CPI acquired and shipped pharmaceuticals (antibiotics, penicillin, oral rehydration salts, etc) to India for relief efforts.
Maldives CPI acquired and shipped pharmaceuticals (antibiotics, penicillin, oral rehydration salts, etc) to Maldives for relief efforts.
Somalia CPI coordinated the creation of 540 emergency kits that were sent to Somalia and distributed in refugee camps. Counterpart also acquired and shipped 30 large, portable shelters to be used in refugee camps.
Total Private Donations: $5,000,000
Media Contact: Bevan Springer, 202-296-9676
For more information, please visit: http://www.counterpart.org
30 Direct Relief International
Direct Relief International was established in 1948 and is a non-profit, non-political, and non- sectarian organization dedicated to improving the health of people living in medically underserved communities and those who are victims of natural disasters, war, and civil unrest. We work to strengthen the indigenous health efforts of our international partners by providing essential material resources – medicines, supplies and equipment. All our programs are provided in a non-discriminatory manner, without regard to political affiliation, religious belief, or ethnic identity. Our assistance programs have always been tailored to be responsive to our partner organizations' particular circumstances and needs and to those of people they serve. Our partners typically provide health services to people in rural areas that are poor, lack health infrastructure, and in which severe health challenges exist.
To date, Direct Relief International’s tsunami relief activities have concentrated on assistance to Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Somalia. Direct Relief has provided over $20 million in direct aid to affected regions in the form of shipments of medical product and disbursement of cash grants for relief and reconstruction projects. All medical goods sent are specifically requested by the recipient and are used in the treatment of tsunami-affected populations.
India As of March 28, 2005, Direct Relief has sent six shipments of pharmaceuticals, nutritional products, medical supplies, and equipment, weighing over 49,000 lbs, to recipients in the tsunami-affected states of Tamilnadu and Kerala. The recipients of Direct Relief donations range from large teaching hospitals to village clinics and medical outreach projects. An estimated 652,298 people will be served with full courses of treatment by the six shipments sent. In addition to material medical aid, Direct Relief has disbursed over $98,000 in cash grants to in- country organizations for specific relief projects, which have included the construction of community health clinics and the purchase of ambulances and mobile medical vans for medical outreach.
Indonesia As of March 28, 2005, Direct Relief has sent nine shipments of medical aid to organizations and healthcare facilities in northern Sumatra and Nias Island. The combined weight of these pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and medical equipment totals over 85,000 lbs and will serve an estimated 1,308,276 affected individuals. Recipients include indigenous relief organizations as well as international and US-based NGOs working to improve the healthcare of affected populations. Direct Relief has provided over $1.6 million in cash resources to fund specific medical relief projects including the purchase of mobile medical units, the implementation of psychosocial services for tsunami survivors, and the improvement of water and sanitation facilities in affected areas. Direct Relief has worked with local organizations as well as assisted the activities of US-based NGOs working in Indonesia, namely International Medical Corps and International Relief and Development.
Sri Lanka As of March 28, 2005, eleven shipments, with a total weight of over 31,000 lbs, have been sent to partners in Sri Lanka. An estimated 759,442 people will be served with full courses of
31 treatment by the goods included in these shipments. Direct Relief has provided medical goods to local organizations, to the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health, and in support of International Medical Corps’ activities in Sri Lanka. In addition to medical assistance, Direct Relief provided over $1.3 million in grant funding to relief and reconstruction projects, which have included the purchase of medical mobile units, the reconstruction of affected hospitals and clinics, the provision of psychosocial services, and the improvement of water and sanitation facilities. Direct Relief has funded projects conducted by local organizations as well as US-based NGOs, including International Medical Corps and International Relief and Development.
Somalia Direct Relief has provided one shipment, weighing over 8,000 lbs, to a teaching hospital in Hargeisa, Somalia whose outreach activities have focused on meeting the medical needs of tsunami-affected populations along Somalia’s eastern coast. An estimated 37,293 people will be treated with the contents of this Direct Relief shipment.
Total Private Donations: $59,779,000
Media Contact: Juliana Minsky, (805) 962-3700
For more information, please visit: http://www.directrelief.org
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Doctors of the World-USA
Doctors of the World-USA is a New York-based international health and human rights organization, currently active in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States, and the Americas, including two major human rights programs in the United States. To date, we have worked in over 30 countries and communities where health is diminished or endangered by violations of human rights and civil liberties, and have mobilized the health sector - in the United States and internationally - to promote and protect these rights. Projects provide essential care and services, but, more importantly, focus resources on training and building the capacity of local counterparts to carry on the mission of health at the conclusion of our efforts. Services, training, and systems development are combined with appropriate advocacy to ensure that our efforts' impact is both broad-based and sustainable. Doctors of the World-USA was founded in 1990 by a group of volunteer physicians, including the late Dr. Jonathan Mann, a pioneer in the field of health and human rights, and works within a network of eleven Doctors of the World/Médecins du Monde delegations. Combined, this network is active in over 90 countries.
Sri Lanka Recognizing that the absorptive capacity of DOW/MDM delegations for immediate relief efforts was met, and that mid-term and longer-term efforts were comparatively under-funded, DOW- USA decided to invest our tsunami-related donations in developing a longer-term response. DOW-USA has conducted an in-depth assessment in Sri Lanka of unmet needs for rebuilding, training, and capacity building to address remaining health needs in tsunami-affected areas, including areas directly damaged by the tsunami and those where displaced people have been housed. After an initial survey of several areas of Sri Lanka, DOW has focused project development in the Hambantota District, with a focus on the Tangalle area, including rehabilitation of clinical sites, provider training, and community-based health interventions conducted in partnership with local NGOs, hospitals, and communities. DOW is analyzing different projects to select those that will reach the greatest number of beneficiaries in tsunami- affected areas. DOW-USA expects to finalize this decision at the end of April, and then initiate rebuilding and longer-term health system strengthening in tsunami-affected areas with unmet needs in Hambantota District. DOW-USA will share these project plans, expected to achieve target deliverables over one year, with InterAction as well as donors.
Total Private Donations: $331,000
Media Contact: Tom Dougherty, 212-226-9890 x225
For more information, please visit: http://www.doctorsoftheworld.org
33 Episcopal Relief and Development
Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) saves lives and builds hope in communities around the world. ERD works with Anglican and Episcopal partners to provide emergency assistance, such as food, water, shelter, in times of disaster. ERD rebuilds devastated communities after the immediate crisis is over. Through ERD's food security and primary health programs, ERD offers long-term solutions to help people sustain safer, healthier, and more productive lives.
Sri Lanka ERD is working with the Diocese of Colombo, The Church of Ceylon, to help people in Sri Lanka rebuild their lives after the tsunami. Working in partnership with the diocese, ERD is supporting long-term rehabilitation in the country. ERD’s partnership with the diocese is helping with community’s needs such as providing school fees and supplies to orphaned children, helping to rebuild boats and supply nets to fisherfolk, restoring livelihoods, offering long-term psychosocial care and trauma counseling, repairing homes, and protecting legal rights. Immediately after the disaster, ERD supplied temporary shelter and single-tent homes to displaced families. ERD has also provided basic supplies such as food and health kits.
India ERD is working with the Church of South India (CSI) to assist fisherfolk by helping to repair and rebuild fishing boats and refurbish fishing nets. ERD is supporting a comprehensive vocational training and business development program in four dioceses so people can earn an income and support their families. Working with ERD, CSI is providing initial loans for communities to start a micro enterprise. ERD is supporting CSI in rebuilding homes in four dioceses. A multi-year trauma care program is training counselors in nine dioceses. The partnership will provide long-term care and education to 200 children left orphaned by the tsunami. On the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, ERD is working with the Church of North India to rebuild schools and homes, provide psychosocial care for children, fund group cooperatives and micro-enterprise, support the construction of disaster mitigation shelters, and supply families with clean water. In the first critical days and weeks after the disaster, ERD provided aid such as food, water, medicine boxes, and vaccinations to affected communities served by CNI & CSI.
Indonesia ERD has partnered with an ecumenical organization and local groups in Indonesia to provide assistance such as medical care and potable water. ERD's support will help both relief and long- term rehabilitation efforts in areas such as the western coastline of the Aceh province.
Thailand Through a partnership between Episcopal Churches in the United States and Christ Church in Bangkok, relief supplies such as food, clean water, medical care, and shelter kits were given to families in Thailand. Funds from US parishes were sent to Christ Church, an Anglican Church in Bangkok, who provided clothing, counseling, and other immediate needs to devastated communities in the remote coastal southwest region.
Total Private Donations: $9,158,000
34 Media Contact: Ayana Davis, (212) 716-6113
For more information, please visit: http://www.er-d.org/tsunami/
35 Food for the Hungry
Food for the Hungry is a Christian organization founded in 1971 by Dr. Larry Ward and currently impacts individuals in 46 countries providing emergency relief and implementing development programs throughout the world. This includes its field programs, exploratory programs and presence of local-country offices (National Organizations). The group helps the world's most disadvantaged people through child-development programs, agriculture and clean- water projects, health and nutrition programs, micro-enterprise loans and education; teaching communities to become self-sustaining.
India Food for the Hungry is working in the Tamil Nadu Region with local partners EFICOR and ESAF to provide food rations, hygiene supplies, clothes and on-site trauma counseling. Food for the Hungry’s Tamil Nadu Emergency Relief Program has ongoing food distributions to more than 4,000 households. Moreover, Food for the Hungry and partners have built 40 temporary shelters, 60 latrines and 18 bathrooms throughout the region. Also, Food for the Hungry received a $300,000 USAID/OFDA grant to implement long-term livelihood re-establishment programs in the area.
Indonesia Initially, Food for the Hungry provided life-saving relief in Banda Aceh, partnering with the Church of the Holy Christ Indonesia, to provide food packages and medical teams in refugee camps throughout the province, the area hardest hit and closest to the epicenter of the earthquake. At peak, combined teams served 400 patients a day and vaccinated 100 children in cooperation with UNICEF and the Indonesian Department of Health. Furthermore, Food for the Hungry and partner agency Operation Blessing, have been engaged in relief activities in Meulaboh and several west coast villages. In March, Food for the Hungry shifted efforts in Meulaboh (focusing on the Manggis quadrant of the Ujong Baroh village and the coastal areas north of the city) to long-term development. The Meulaboh Rehabilitation Program consists of (1) Cash for Work Programs (2) Small Trade/Business Recovery Programs (3) Agriculture Rehabilitation Programs and (4) Water and Sanitation Programs.
Thailand Food for the Hungry’s assessment team was on the ground in Thailand within 24 hours after the Tsunami hit distributing water, food and clothing to more than 3,000 people throughout Phuket, Phan-nga, KohNok, and Nam Khem. Since then, Food for the Hungry has developed an international partnership with churches, non-profit organizations, and corporate and civil society groups to provide additional relief and rebuild livelihoods. Called “We Love Thailand,” the partnership has an initial budget of more than $1.2 million and focuses on four villages with plans to rebuild 150 homes, 160 fishing boats, two schools and two fishing piers. Distributions of durable supplies throughout the region include kitchen sets, pots, stoves, fans, oil, rice and home furnishings.
Sri Lanka Two days after the tsunami, Food for the Hungry provided financial support to partners in Sri Lanka to provide medical assistance, food and water distributions, well pumps and blankets to
36 meet the needs of 10,000 families. Furthermore, Food for the Hungry sent a shipment of life- saving supplies valued at $368,000 to partner Pentecostal Assemblies of Sri Lanka.
Total Private Donations: $7,179,000
Media Contact: Yolande Sumner (480) 609-7734
For more information, please visit: http://www.fh.org/focus_tsunami
37 Gifts In Kind International
Gifts In Kind International partners with businesses and nonprofit organizations to provide quality products and services that improve lives in communities around the world. Gifts In Kind International is the world leader in product philanthropy and the 3rd largest product and service philanthropic provider in the United States. Its network of 450-plus Gifts In Kind® programs provides nonprofits access to million of dollars annually in product and service donations from companies worldwide—over $800 million in 2004. Today's top manufacturers and retailers, including 44 percent of the Fortune 500 and thousands of other companies, rely on Gifts In Kind International to design and manage the donation process.
Total Private Donations: $11,546,000
Media Contact: Suzanne Dawson, (212) 329-1420
For more information, please visit: http://www.giftsinkind.org
38 Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity International, based in Americus, Ga., is an ecumenical Christian ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing. By the end of 2005, Habitat will have built its 200,000th house and more than one million people will be living in Habitat homes they helped build.
Habitat for Humanity International's Response and Rebuild efforts in South Asia primarily focus on four of the hardest-hit countries: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and India. The organization is rebuilding habitat houses destroyed in the disaster and building new "core houses" for displaced victims residing in deplorable camps. With the help of donors, volunteers, and partner families, Habitat for Humanity plans to build transitional housing for 25,000 families over the next two years. As of March 9, private and corporate donations totaling over $25 million had been received in support of Habitat for Humanity's efforts. The transitional house, or "core house", plan is a single-room structure with a roof and a veranda or covered living and work space. It includes minimum sanitary facilities. A second room could be added later to enlarge the home as funds become available.
Sri Lanka Within three weeks of the tsunami, Habitat affiliates began building on existing foundations in Galle and Batticaola. To date, with the help of international teams, 15 houses in Batticaloa are complete or near completion and 84 houses in Galle. These first homes are 250 sq.ft. (23 sq.m.). HFH plans to build 10,000 transitional houses for displaced families in Sri Lanka, and support at least 2,000 additional families through Building and Training Centers.
India Commencement of new construction was delayed until government policies were handed down (March 30), but 250 houses so far have been repaired in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu. HFH India established a Disaster Response Center in Chennai and plans to build and renovate houses in selected communities of Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and Andhra Pradesh states. Government of India policy mandates that new houses built for tsunami recovery must be 300-325 sq.ft. (28-30 sq.m.) and be complete in every way, not extendable as is the model for HFH “core” houses. Plans are to provide First Shelter housing for up to 6,000 families in the first building phase. HFH India also plans to build up to six Building and Training Centers as a key part of its tsunami reconstruction activities. Four will be located in Tamil Nadu, Nagappattinam, Kanyakumari, Pondicherry and Tuticorin.
Thailand Habitat for Humanity has begun building a 20-house development and has a commitment from the government to supply land and infrastructure for 224 more houses. HFH is working with a consortium of Christian international NGOs and Thai Churches to build 1,000 transitional houses and repair an additional 1,000 houses over the next two years, mainly in the Pang Nga and Krabi areas. Building and Training Centers (BTCs) are expected to support the building and repair of up to 50 houses per month. In BTC Pang Nga, Habitat staff and volunteers are making and stockpiling concrete roof tiles, training local workers on tile production and providing
39 construction expertise to other organizations building schools and other community facilities. The Krabi BTC expects to undertake similar operations starting later in April.
Indonesia Habitat for Humanity has opened the first Building and Training Center in Medan and plans to open a satellite center in Nias. HFH’s goal is to build 1,000 homes including 300 in Banda Aceh and 300 in Nias, constructing temporary light-gauge steel houses consisting of basic structures and a roof to provide immediate shelter for those left homeless after the tsunami. One model steel-framed house has been constructed in the Tiang area of Banda Aceh and foundations are underway for an additional 80 houses throughout Aceh. BTCs will be established in Sigli and Meulaboh.
Total Private Donations: $18,000,000
Media Contact: Jennifer Lindsey, 202-628-9171 ext. 4912
For more information, please visit: http://www.habitat.org
40 Heart to Heart International
Heart to Heart International is a global humanitarian organization that inspires, empowers and mobilizes individuals to serve the needs of the poor in their communities and around the world. We accomplish our mission by forming key partnerships that promote health; alleviate hunger; offer resources, education and hope; and provide opportunities for meaningful service. Since inception, Heart to Heart has maintained an overhead of no more than 2 percent, sending the remaining 98 directly to our programs and projects. Founded in 1992, Heart to Heart has quickly become one of the leading humanitarian organizations in the world and regularly delivers aid to more than 50 countries each year. Disaster relief efforts are not new to Heart to Heart. We have been the Midwest leader in responding to victims of hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, and man-made disasters around the world.
Sri Lanka Heart to Heart with our long-time partner FedEx, delivered 90 tons of donated medicines, medical supplies, dried food and personal hygiene kits for Sri Lanka tsunami survivors on January 7. Water-treatment systems were also delivered and arrangements made for set-up and long-term operation. On January 21, we sent additional aid with two medical teams working along the east coast of Sri Lanka. To augment our existing partnerships with in-country agencies, we’ve hired a staff member in Colombo. Heart to Heart is committed to a two- to three-year response to Sri Lanka.
Indonesia Heart to Heart provided an initial shipment of $32,000 (U.S. wholesale value) in foods and personal hygiene items that were distributed to 40,000 persons affected by the tsunami in the Banda Aceh region. And on March 30, Heart to Heart began efforts to assist quake victims on the Indonesian island of Nias. We are committed to continuing shipments through 2007.
Thailand Heart to Heart is coordinating the procurement and delivery of a sophisticated water treatment plant to Phuket to be implemented during 2005. The plant is capable of treating 800 cubic meters of water per day, meeting the needs of 15,000 to 20,000 people.
Total Private Donations: $1,071,000
Media Contact: Pete Brumbaugh, 913-764-5200
For more information, please visit: http://www.hearttoheart.org
41 Helen Keller International
The mission of Helen Keller International is to save the sight and lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. We combat the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition by establishing programs based on evidence and research in vision, health and nutrition. Our vision is to strive to be the most scientifically competent organization in improving vision and nutrition throughout the world.
Indonesia Working with other nongovernmental organizations under the aegis of the United Nations, Helen Keller International (HKI) is focusing its efforts on assisting an estimated 1,740,000 people in Indonesia through two basic emergency assistance activities. First, HKI is distributing vitamin A, dispersible zinc tablets and Vitalita “sprinkles” sachets to children under five years of age through an initiative called Supplementation with Micronutrients (SUM). As of March 1st, HKI had enabled the distribution of 317,356 vitamin A capsules, 310,905 zinc tablets and 11,386 sachets. In addition to providing micronutrients to children, HKI is distributing a monthly supply of multivitamins suitable for cooking or non-cooking conditions to enhance health. In Aceh and other affected areas in Indonesia, HKI is conducting a Rapid Emergency Assessment and Prioritization (REAP) in order to coordinate relief efforts. Through REAP, HKI will be able to determine the conditions and coverage of basic assistance and recovery for the next six months. In the first few weeks of the assessment, HKI evaluated the basic living conditions of the affected areas and helped direct services such as clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and medical care to those in need. Data about diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria and nutrition are being collected to complement the distribution of micronutrients through SUM.
Total Private Donations: $571,000
Media Contact: Katie Haxall, 212-532-0544 x 818
For more information, please visit: http://www.hkworld.org
42 INMED Partnerships for Children
INMED Partnerships for Children is a non-profit 501(c)(3) global development organization dedicated to inspiring communities in the United States and fostering their ability to develop healthy, educated children with increased opportunities for the future.
INMED has provided needed products to support organizations that have projects on the ground in the tsunami-affected regions. As a result of partnerships with Counterpart, Int’l, the National Cancer Coalition and our suppliers, we have been able to secure valuable pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, shelters and various other items that were listed as needed commodities for the tsunami victims in targeted areas in the affected region:
Sri Lanka INMED, working with Counterpart Int’l, has supplied multiple pallets of blankets, linens, towels, scrubs and medical gowns. These items were shipped directly into Sri Lanka and distributed by the Medical Mission Group, Methodist Church, headed by Rev. H.J. Kang.
India (AIMS Hospital) INMED, in partnership with the National Cancer Coalition and Counterpart Int’l, delivered $2.0 million dollars of antibiotics and various requested pharmaceuticals.
Somalia INMED, in partnerships with TVI Corporation and Counterpart Int’l, have provided 30 instant shelters, hospital linens, blankets, scrubs and medical gowns, filling a 40-ft container. These shelters, valued at $10,000 each, can be used as makeshift shelters/homes, distribution centers, and medical clinics.
Total Private Donations: $2,297,000
Media Contact: Idie Badie, (703) 444-4477 x214
For more information, please visit: http://www.inmed.org
43 Interchurch Medical Assistance
Interchurch Medical Assistance, Inc. provides comprehensive technical and material assistance for overseas health programs of partner churches, faith-based development and relief organizations, and public and private agencies with similar goals. Major activities focus on disease elimination and treatment; strengthening health care systems; procurement of medicines, medical supplies and equipment; and serving as liaison between international funding entities and overseas health-related community organizations, with emphasis placed on partnership, technical exchange, training and capacity building. As a Member association of 12 Protestant relief and development agencies, I.M.A. works through a worldwide network of faith communities affiliated with its Member agencies. I.M.A.’s and its Members’ programs serve people in need, without regard to ethnicity, creed, color, gender, national origin, or political affiliation.
Indonesia I.M.A. has provided 150 I.M.A. Medicine Boxes for Indonesia at the request of its Member relief and development agencies Church World Service (CWS) and Lutheran World Relief (LWR). Valued at $450,000, the medicines and medical supplies will treat approximately 150,000 adults and children and have been distributed at the disaster sites by CWS Indonesia staff and LWR/IMC (International Medical Corps) country partners. I.M.A. anticipates providing additional emergency medicines and supplies through the end of 2005.
Sri Lanka I.M.A. has provided 225 I.M.A. Medicine Boxes for Sri Lanka at the request of its Member relief and development agencies Church World Service (CWS) and Lutheran World Relief (LWR). Valued at $725,000, the medicines and medical supplies will treat approximately 225,000 adults and children and have been distributed at the disaster sites by CWS Sri Lanka staff and LWR/IMC (International Medical Corps) country partners. I.M.A. anticipates providing additional emergency medicines and supplies through the end of 2005.
Thailand I.M.A. has provided 100 I.M.A. Medicine Boxes for Thailand at the request of its Member relief and development agency Church World Service (CWS). Valued at $300,000, the medicines and medical supplies will treat approximately 100,000 adults and children and have been distributed through the health ministry of the government of Thailand. I.M.A. anticipates providing additional emergency medicines and supplies through the end of 2005.
India I.M.A. has provided 75 I.M.A. Medicine Boxes for India at the request of its Member relief and development agency Episcopal Relief and Development (ER&D). Valued at $220,000, the medicines and medical supplies will treat approximately 75,000 adults and children and have been distributed at the disaster site by ER&D country partners. I.M.A. anticipates providing additional emergency medicines and supplies through the end of 2005.
Total Private Donations: $407,000
44 Media Contact: Vickie Johnson, (410) 635-8720
For more information, please visit: http://www.interchurch.org
45 International Aid
International Aid is a nonprofit Christian relief and development agency that responds to Biblical mandates by providing and supporting solutions in healthcare. Acting on behalf of compassionate Christians who desire to “love thy neighbor as thyself,” International Aid leverages donated supplies, financial gifts, and the time and talents of volunteers, to link resources with needs across the world.
Indonesia International Aid has provided shipments to Indonesia's Aceh region that include 15 medical clinics (serving 10,000 people each), 17 water purification systems, over-the-counter and prescription medicines and other relief supplies. IA has facilitated trauma counseling sessions in Jakarta and Banda Aceh, training psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors to be trainers and/or trauma counselors. International Aid has signed a Memorandum of Understanding from the Ministry of Health in Aceh Province for IA to provide a Medical Equipment Repair and Services Center. IA will provide biomedical staff and the diagnostic and testing equipment. This repair center will have the capacity to support 30 hospitals in the region.
India International Aid has provided a total of 11,500 disaster kits, worth $50,000, to tsunami victims in South India. In Cuddalore, 35 trauma counselors will be trained to provide counseling to as many as 5,000 people. In the next 18 months, IA plans to ship major quantities of follow-up relief supplies that will assist as many as 25,000 people. Long-term plans include addressing community healthcare needs of the populations in Nagapattinam and Cuddalore, especially in the areas of HIV and medical equipment repair and training.
Sri Lanka To date International Aid has coordinated a shipment of $4.6 million worth of prescription and over-the-counter medications for Sri Lanka, which will assist as many as 100,000 tsunami victims. IA will soon ship a medical clinic there, and will be involved long term with 4 major hospitals by supplying medical equipment/training and health-care supplies. These hospitals will serve approximately 100,000 people. IA is working in the eastern part of Sri Lanka in the Kalmunai area.
Total Private Donations: $11,301,000
Media Contact: Mary Jean Vesper, 616-846-7490 Ext. 284
For more information, please visit: http://www.internationalaid.org
46 International Medical Corps
International Medical Corps (IMC) is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide where few organizations dare to serve. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond to emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps restore them to self-reliance.
Indonesia International Medical Corps (IMC) deployed Rapid Response Teams to Aceh within 24 hours of the tsunami. Teams focused on delivering primary health services via mobile and fixed clinics in Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, and Aceh Jaya. At Banda Aceh’s central Zainoel Abidin Hospital, IMC teams supported and restaffed the emergency department. IMC health teams also conducted needs assessments; distributed hygiene kits and other non-food items; provided culturally appropriate psychosocial support; collected and reported disease surveillance data; provided nutritional support; and helped to implement and deliver a mass measles vaccination campaign. IMC's long-term commitment to tsunami recovery in Indonesia includes: support for Banda Aceh's medical education system; health facility renovation in three districts; health service provision through 11 mobile clinics; clean water and appropriate sanitation services and community-based health education activities; livelihood support through cash-for-work and micro-credit programs; and culturally appropriate mental health activities. IMC's target geographic areas include: Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, Aceh Jaya, Medan, Nias and Simeulue.
Sri Lanka International Medical Corps (IMC) initiated relief efforts in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province within one week of the tsunami disaster. Its emergency response included immediate provision of health care in Trincomalee District through the operation of four mobile clinics for displaced and vulnerable populations and the re-establishment of Kinniya hospital's emergency response capacity. An IMC mental health expert assessed the psychosocial needs in Ampara District and worked with local counterparts to provide culturally appropriate assistance. IMC's long-term recovery program in Sri Lanka aims to rebuild Sri Lankan lives and livelihoods and help rehabilitate the country's health care system and restore it to self-reliance. To these ends, IMC will continue to operate mobile clinics and expand services to include pre-natal care, growth monitoring, immunizations and health education. IMC is working with WHO and the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health to develop a national strategy for the integration of mental health services into the primary health care system. Additionally, IMC staff is working to provide these services at the grass roots level in Ampara and Batticoloa districts. Over the next year, IMC will provide training, technical assistance, psychosocial programs, micro-credit and cash-for-work programs, and clinic/hospital rehabilitation in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province.
Total Private Donations: $35,327,000
Media Contact: Rachel Taylor, (310) 826-7800
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For more information, please visit: http://www.imcworldwide.org
48 International Orthodox Christian Charities
International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), a non-sectarian humanitarian relief and development agency based in Baltimore, MD, is working both independently and with our partners (the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia and local church officials in Indonesia, Church World Service, and Save the Children) to provide emergency assistance to vulnerable families and individuals affected by the earthquakes and tsunamis in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia Since the tsunami on December 26, 2004, IOCC has been active in Indonesia distributing fresh food parcels to IDPs living in temporary camps and private homes in North Sumatera Utara and East Aceh in cooperation with local Orthodox and Protestant church officials and Save the Children; providing school kits to affected children/schools in Sumatera Utara; airlifting urgently-needed humanitarian supplies, including 43,000 soy rice meals and 20 tons of canned meat, to the province of Aceh in cooperation with Church World Service (CWS); airlifting 8,000 health, school and baby kits to Aceh; shipping containers of mixed commodities, including blankets, baby kits, school supplies, water pumps, relief kits, to the island of Sumatra; and airlifting nearly 300 medicine and medical supply boxes, each with WHO-approved medical supplies for 1,000 adults and children for up to three months, to Aceh. IOCC also has provided substantial monetary support to CWS to provide medical assistance, food and non-food material aid, livelihood recovery and capacity-building, emergency shelter, ongoing psychosocial assistance, and other aid to IDPs in Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, Aceh Barat and Nagan Raya, and Nias Island, with special emphasis on female-headed households, widows, children, the elderly, and families with limited means of support. IOCC’s ongoing relief distribution efforts in North Sumatra and East Aceh are expected to continue for at least several more months. Though we have not concluded a formal long-term assessment, we anticipate continuing to support relief and reconstruction efforts through at least the end of 2005.
Thailand Some of the medicine boxes in the airlift were transported to Thailand.
Sri Lanka IOCC shipped four 40-foot containers of liquid multi-vitamins for children and adults for distribution in Sri Lanka.
Total Private Donations: $300,000
Media Contact: Stephen Huba, 410-243-9820
For more information, please visit: http://www.iocc.org
49 International Reading Association
The International Reading Association seeks to promote high levels of literacy for all by improving the reading process and teaching techniques; serving as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research through conferences, journals, and other publications; and actively encouraging the lifetime reading habit.
IRA continues to receive donations to its tsunami relief fund from IRA members and schools. IRA is working with its affiliate and members in Indonesia to determine how best to use the fund. All funds received will be used directly for relief efforts and will focus on the needs of children and schools.
Total Private Donations: $50,000
Media Contact: Beth Cady, 302-731-1600
For more information, please visit: http://www.reading.org
50 International Relief and Development
IRD is a private voluntary organization (PVO) dedicated to improving the quality of life of people in the most economically deprived parts of the world by facilitating and supporting assistance tailored specifically to their needs. IRD works with a wide range of organizations in the implementation of targeted, cost-effective relief and development programs.
Indonesia IRD is implementing emergency water and sanitation activities for IDP Settlements in North and East Aceh by providing adequate quality and quantity of water and appropriate sanitation facilities through the provision of water containers/bladders, installation of water systems, construction of private and public latrines, solid waste collection and other relevant water and sanitation interventions. In addition, IRD is issuing grants to local NGOs to implement small- scale projects addressing emergency and basic health needs, distributes donated emergency commodities and provides psycho-social counseling through a local NGO, the Psikodista Foundation, to 3,600 crisis-affected children and adults.
Sri Lanka IRD is implementing water and sanitation activities for 10,000 displaced persons in Hambantota district. In addition, IRD is implementing health-focused activities, including grants to local NGOs to implement small-scale projects addressing emergency and basic health needs, distributed donated emergency commodities, mosquito nets to 20,000 people to aid in the prevention of the spread of malaria, 12,000 donated school kits and has rehabilitated 3 wells in March.
Total Private Donations: $1,839,000
Media Contact: Elsie Tama, (703) 248-0161
For more information, please visit: http://www.ird-dc.org
51 International Relief Teams
Founded in 1988, International Relief Teams (IRT) is a nonprofit humanitarian organization dedicated to providing critical assistance to victims of disaster, poverty and neglect worldwide. IRT specializes in medical education and training, disaster relief, public health and surgical intervention. IRT's medical and technical experts include a corps of highly skilled, licensed and experienced physicians, nurses and other medical and public health professionals. IRT medical education and training programs are both service delivery and educational in nature and have contributed to documented dramatic decreases in morbidity and mortality at national levels, especially among women and children. IRT clinicians and construction specialists respond to both man-made and natural disasters. IRT is also actively involved in a variety of public health programs, primarily addressing the maternal-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and is in the process of expanding this program to other areas. Finally, IRT sends surgical teams throughout the world to address the surgical needs of poor, rural and remote people who would otherwise not have access to such services.
IRT sent five air shipments of emergency medicines and relief supplies worth more than $2 million dollars to India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka.
Indonesia IRT deployed a medical team to Banda Aceh, Indonesia to address the acute surgical and clinical needs of the survivors in this beleaguered city. IRT deployed nurses to the Aceh province of Indonesia to treat survivors, develop and organize a pharmaceutical distribution center, and deliver medicines to remote regions of the province. The nurses also assisted the World Health Organization (WHO) in setting up a communications center for relief agencies, and in preparing for a mass measles and Vitamin A immunization program for children. Once the situation in Indonesia becomes a little clearer, IRT intends to send an assessment team to Indonesia to determine the feasibility of implementing medical programs (either or both service delivery and/or training).
Sri Lanka IRT sent an assessment team to Sri Lanka to assess mental health needs among survivors (especially children), and longer-term medical, water and sanitation, and health requirements in underserved regions of the country. IRT also provided significant quantities of essential materials and supplies needed to sustain health, such as family tents, tarps, water containers, stoves, cooking and eating utensils, and traditional clothing for thousands of displaced families living in camps and other temporary shelters. IRT has also initiated a psycho-social training program to train teachers and professional caregivers in effective methods of helping victims, especially children, suffering from post-traumatic stress. IRT will also conduct a clinical-based training program for professional counselors to help them deal with severe cases of post- traumatic stress. Also, IRT is working with local nonprofit organizations to help survivors regain their livelihoods by purchasing construction tools and sewing machines to help masons and seamstresses begin working again, provide income for their families, and produce goods and services most needed by their communities. IRT will also providing assistance to local organizations involved in the rebuilding of homes, clinics, and other facilities that sustain community recovery and development. IRT has also been asked by our in-country partners to
52 plan on sending a medical team to work in resettlement camps once the long-term situation becomes clearer and many of the current (temporary) NGOs depart.
Our commitment to the survivors of this unprecedented tragedy remains ongoing. As the disaster evolves from the acute to the recovery stage, IRT will concentrate on helping Tsunami survivors recover psychologically and economically from the emotional and physical scars left by the disaster. IRT is currently in negotiations with other international private and non-profit organizations to address the reconstruction needs of India and Thailand.
Total Private Donations: $2,934,000
Media Contact: Henri Migala, (619) 284-7979
For more information, please visit: http://www.irteams.org
53 International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee is a world leader in relief, rehabilitation, protection, post- conflict development, resettlement services, and advocacy for people uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression. IRC delivers lifesaving aid in emergencies, rebuilds shattered communities, cares for war-traumatized children, rehabilitates health care systems, restores lost livelihoods, and strengthens the capacity of national organizations and communities.
Indonesia IRC deployed a robust emergency response to the tsunami crisis in Aceh, Indonesia. IRC emergency teams delivered emergency primary health care, urgent water & sanitation interventions to prevent the spread of water-borne diseases, and delivered over 60 tons of emergency supplies and materials. As Aceh's people begin the long road to recovery, IRC is strengthening communities coping capacity through psychosocial interventions and child- centered activities, helping people recovery their livelihoods, and delivering innovative economic revitalization interventions. IRC has been present in Aceh since 2001 and plans to continue its commitment to the Acehnese people for several years to come. IRC is providing assistance to over 50,000 households in 63 communities around Banda Aceh, Meulaboh, Calang, and Lhokseumawe in some of the most devastated areas of Aceh Province in Indonesia.
Total Private Donations: $11,389,000
Media Contact: Melissa Winkler, (212) 551-0972
For more information, please visit: http://www.theIRC.org/tsunamirelief
54 Jesuit Refugee Service/USA
JRS has a threefold mission of accompaniment, service and advocacy on behalf of refugees and forcibly displaced persons. With a priority to working wherever the needs of forcibly displaced people are urgent and unattended by others, JRS offers a human and pastoral service to the refugees and displaced people and to the communities which host them through a wide variety of rehabilitation and relief activities. JRS advocates the cause of the forcibly displaced and facilitates the response of local churches, Jesuit institutions and other communities and organizations to the needs of refugees.
Sri Lanka During the initial emergency response stage, JRS/USA supported JRS teams in Sri Lanka who provided relief services to the displaced in the areas of Jaffna, Mullaitheevu, Trincomalee and Batticaloa. (JRS teams had been serving the displaced in Sri Lanka for several years prior to the devastating tsunami.) These emergency services included trauma counseling, cleaning of wells, provision of school supplies, and basics food and clothing provisions. JRS/USA is in the process of supporting a multi-year program of JRS-Sri Lanka that will provide nets and boats to fishermen who lost all means of livelihood in the tsunami.
Indonesia Prior to the tsunami, JRS had teams in Aceh that served the large number of Acehnese families displaced by the civil conflict in that area. During the initial tsunami emergency response phase, JRS/USA supported the JRS team in Aceh as it helped coordinate delivery of survival kits including kitchen utensils, hygiene items, blankets, sleeping mats, water storage cans and plastic sheeting. As the recovery stage unfolds, JRS/USA is poised to support the JRS teams in Aceh as they seek to respond to the needs of IDPs who seek to return to isolated areas, such as Pulo Aceh, to rebuild their lives. Furthermore, JRS/USA will provide financial support for income- generating projects that JRS teams in Aceh initiate during the coming years.
Total Private Donations: $1,432,000
Media Contact: Rev. Kenneth J. Gavin, S.J.: 202-462-0400;
For more information, please visit: http://www.jesref.org
55 Lutheran World Relief
Founded in 1945 to provide relief to devastated Europe after World War II, today LWR is an international, nonprofit agency that works with rural communities and local organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to promote disaster recovery, sustainable livelihoods, food security, natural resource management and peace. LWR is also a leader among U.S. faith-based organizations in mobilizing its constituents in action and advocacy for global justice. Through its strong partnerships, its commitment to innovation and long-term, sustainable solutions, as well as its ability to mobilize constituents, LWR is unmatched in designing, monitoring and growing effective and efficient partnerships for change.
India Through the Action by Churches Together (ACT) International alliance and partners Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA), Lutheran World Service-India (LWSI), and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of India (UELCI), LWR is responding in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, and Pondicherry. The response includes activities in the shelter, livelihood, education, water/sanitation, and disaster preparedness sectors and will last until 12/31/2006. Activities up to March 26th include providing food, clothing, bedding, kitchen utensils, tarpaulins, drinking water, sanitation and basic medical aid to 53,000 families; providing kerosene stoves to 3,500 families; initiating construction of 550 temporary houses; distributing 77 fiberglass boats, 65 engines, and 82 sets of nylon fishing nets; repairing an additional 44 boats and motors; initiating a food and cash program; identifying locations for 35 children’s parks; and training 500 volunteers to act as community counselors for children.
Indonesia Through the Action by Churches Together (ACT) International alliance and partners Church World Service-Indonesia (CWS), Yakkum Emergency Unit (YEU), and Yayasan Tanggul Bencana (YTB), LWR is responding in Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, Aceh Barat, Nagan Raya, Aceh Utara, Nias, and Aceh Jaya. The response includes activities in the health, psychosocial, shelter, livelihood, water/sanitation and capacity building sectors and will last until 12/31/2006. Activities up to March 26th include providing non-food items such as mattresses, mosquito nets, blankets, tents, stoves, and health kits to 15,000 people; providing emergency food supplies such as rice, dried milk, instant noodles, high-energy biscuits, flavor packages and clean water to over 13,500 displaced people; operating a mobile health clinic that serviced over 1,100 individuals; and providing storage facilities, taps and pit latrines to 1,152 households.
Sri Lanka Through the Action by Churches Together (ACT) International alliance and partners the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) and the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India (JDCSI), LWR is responding in Vanni, Mullaitivu, Thirukovil, Ampara, Trinco, Muttur, Batticaloa, Galle, Matara, Tangalle, Hambantota, Colombo, Kalutara, Wattala and Negambo. The response includes activities in the livelihood, shelter, psychosocial, education, disaster preparedness, and capacity building sectors and will last until 12/31/2006. Activities up to March 26th include delivering dry rations, kitchen utensils, tents, clothing, books, and sanitary items to 14,000 families.
56 Somalia Through the Action by Churches Together (ACT) International alliance and partner Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), LWR is responding in Beinda Bela and Eyl. The response includes activities in the water/sanitation and livelihood sectors and will last until l2/31/2006. Most activities in Somalia will occur after March 26th, during the second phase of the response.
Long-term Response LWR has received over $15 million of private funds to respond to the Asia earthquake/tsunami. LWR is planning a long-term, 10-year response with the following goal: Through strengthening local capacities, LWR will alleviate suffering and build resilient, peaceful communities among the most vulnerable tsunami survivors in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India. LWR’s priority sectors for long-term response are relief/rehabilitation, livelihoods/income generation, risk management, and peace-building/conflict mitigation.
Total Private Donations: $15,000,000
Media Contact: Lisa Bonds, (410) 230-2700
For more information, please visit: http://www.waveofgiving.org/
57 Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps alleviates suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided more than $830 million in assistance to people in 80 nations. The organization's 2,000 staff worldwide currently reach 6 million people in more than 35 countries.
Indonesia In and around Banda Aceh and Meulaboh, Mercy Corps used private funds to launch our immediate emergency response in the wake of the tsunami. Private funds supported distributions of critical items needed immediately, such as water jugs and household kits. We then used private funds to quickly support innovative programs that put people back to work, first in Cash- For-Work programs and then in cash grants to small businesses that helped to jumpstart the damaged economy and and enable people to have a greater voice in their own recovery. Many of these privately funded programs served to leverage significant additional support from other donors once the pilots proved successful. We will continue to use private funds to facilitate survivors' return home; revitalize economies and livelihoods through small grants and loans; and help communities to rehabilitate schools, mosques and markets. Mercy Corps is assisting over 165,000 people in Indonesia, and is planning a multiyear response supported by private funds for the next 3-5 years.
Sri Lanka Through our offices in Colombo, Pottuvil, Arugambay, Trincomalee and Ampara, Mercy Corps is focusing on helping communities rebuild communities and livelihoods while also working to advance conflict reduction and mitigation. We work through a series of partnerships with local organizations and communities. Private funds allowed Mercy Corps to quickly launch emergency distribution and Cash-for-Work programs that soon attracted additional donor funding. Private funds have also been allocated to support our long-term (3-5 year) development efforts in Sri Lanka. Mercy Corps is currently assisting over 171,000 people through direct implementation and small grants programs that are providing support to local Sri Lankan organizations at a rate of over $250,000 per month.
India Working with several local Indian organizations, Mercy Corps is assisting over 50,000 people in Tamil Nadu, India. Mercy Corps has partnered with the DHAN Foundation to launch relief and recovery efforts in 20 of 73 villages in Tamil Nadu's Nagappattinam district (population 196,000). We are supporting the distribution of temporary shelter and relief supplies, the construction of community activity centers, and Cash-for-Work programs to help improve and reclaim agricultural land and livelihoods and improve local water sources. Working with local aid group DMI (Disaster Mitigation Institute), Mercy Corps has completed construction of roughly 350 temporary shelters and is participating in community cleanup. We are in the process of determining if it has a longer-term role in India's tsunami recovery.
Total Private Donations: $32,240,000
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Media Contact: Eric Block, 503-450-1965
For more information, please visit: http://www.mercycorps.org
59 Mercy-USA for Aid and Development
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (M-USA) is dedicated to alleviating human suffering and supporting individuals and their communities in their efforts to become more self-sufficient. M- USA's general objectives are: 1) to alleviate human suffering caused by natural and manmade disasters, 2) to improve individual and community health, 3) to promote economic growth, and 4) to support educational development around the world.
Indonesia Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (M-USA) is focusing its tsunami response efforts in the province of Aceh. In January and February, M-USA distributed food packages (containing rice, noodles, canned sardines, biscuits, bottled water, etc.) to 1,200 homeless families near Banda Aceh and Meulaboh. In March, M-USA distributed six-month household kits (containing kitchen items, towels, toiletries, clothing, plastic mats, candles, matches, etc.) to 400 homeless families near Banda Aceh and Meulaboh.
In February and March, M-USA also dug water wells and built latrines in ten IDP camps/temporary shelters in the district of Aceh Besar. This water and sanitation project is benefiting approximately 4,000 persons. While field assessments and reviews are not yet complete, M-USA is tentatively planning to focus on shelter, water and sanitation, and livelihood support (including aquaculture, fishing and agriculture) during the reconstruction and rehabilitation phase of its tsunami response efforts.
India In January and February, M-USA, through our local partner, United Economic Forum, distributed food packages (containing rice, lentils, oil, sugar, tea, etc.), Kitchen kits (containing pots, pans, plates, bowls, cups, utensils, etc.), clothes, plastic tarpaulins, sheets and blankets to approximately 2,000 families left homeless by the tsunami in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. No further response is planned at this time.
Somalia In April, M-USA will assist 50 tsunami-affected families in the devastated district of Haffun to restart their small fishing businesses. Mercy-USA will provide these families with nets, hooks, anchors, buoys and other necessary equipment to allow them to support themselves once again. No further response is planned at this time.
Total Private Donations: $582,000
Media Contact: Umar al-Qadi, (734) 454-0011
For more information, please visit: http://www.mercyusa.org/TsunamiDisasterRelief.cfm
60 National Peace Corps Association
The National Peace Corps is a membership-based alumni organization serving returned Peace Corps volunteers, staff, as well as Peace Corps family, friends and supporters. Our mission is to foster peace through service, education and advocacy. We pursue this mission through our 157 affiliate groups and our network of 30,000 members.
Thailand The Friends of Thailand, one of NPCA's 157 affiliated groups, launched Project Restore on January 9th to provide assistance to rural schools in southern Thailand. It focuses in particular on two schools, Ban Gank Sak and Ban Bang Muang in Phuket province. The project is providing scholarship assistance to students orphaned by the Tsunami. Since members of the Friends of Thailand have an ongoing relationship with the country, it is anticipated that this project will continue until this assistance is no longer needed. Approximately 150 students are benefiting from these scholarships. Through March 31st, approximately $65k has been raised to support this project.
India NPCA is administering a project on behalf of five Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) from the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. Three of these RPCVs are working with the Association for India's Development in Akkararaipettai Village in Tamil Nadu, India. The project involves construction of post-disaster temporary housing of 150 families, approximately 750 individuals. This project will conclude in June 2005. Through March 31st, this project has raised $28,000.
Total Private Donations: $93,000
Media Contact: Kevin F. Quigley, 202-293-7728
For more information, please visit: http://www.rpcv.org
61 Northwest Medical Teams
The mission of Northwest Medical Teams is to demonstrate the love of Christ to people affected by disaster, conflict and poverty. Since 1979, Northwest Medical Teams has sent more than 1,300 medical and rehabilitation teams and more than $650 million in medical supplies and equipment--improving the lives of people all over the world. Medical and dental volunteers respond to disasters around the globe and also in the Pacific Northwest. Domestically, the organization's Mobile Dental Clinic program partners with schools and social service agencies to provide free dental care to 13,000 dental patients each year in the states of Oregon and Washington. Internationally, Northwest Medical Teams collaborates with in-country organizations to support long-term development programs, including construction projects, health promotion, and education.
Indonesia In Banda Aceh and Lamno, Northwest Medical Teams is providing primary health care services at three local hospitals, clinics, and IDP camps. Recognizing the immediate need for dental care in both locations, Northwest Medical Teams is assisting the local dental community by providing dental equipment, supplies, and personnel to improve the quality and access to dental care services. In addition to static clinics, Northwest Medical Teams medical personnel are traveling by boat down the western coast of Aceh Province to serve surviving IDPs who moved to adjacent "host" communities. After the March 29, 2005 earthquake, Northwest Medical Teams began providing emergency health care services on Nias Island and surrounding islands. Trauma counseling teams conducted Trauma Response and Intervention workshops targeting national (Acehenese) medical and education personnel. These 3-day workshops are followed by infield supervision and mentoring of the students as they practice the crisis intervention model taught them.
Sri Lanka Northwest Medical Teams deployed emergency medical relief teams to provide health care services to the IDP populations in the areas near Trincomalee, Batticaloa, Galle, and Kalmunai. Northwest Medical Teams continues to provide medical personnel to support the Kalmunai Pediatric Hospital. Northwest Medical Teams purchased and shipped medicines valued at $25.9 million. The medicines were approved by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health, and distributed by the Ministry of Health and Northwest Medical Teams to clinics and hospitals affected by the tsunami. In partnership with local mental health and counseling professionals, a trauma counseling team conducted Trauma Response and Intervention workshops targeting national medical and education personnel. Northwest Medical Teams provided funding for its national partner, the Lankan Evangelical Association for Development Services (LEADS) to build up to 2000 transitional housing structures in the communities of Kalmunai, Trincomalee, Hambantota, Matara, and Jaffna. In partnership with IRD, Northwest Medical Teams contributed financial resources to purchase school kits to provide the necessary school supplies for the beginning of school. All the materials for the school kits were purchased locally.
Other Locations Northwest Medical Teams provided funding for other organizations to provide recovery assistance in other countries affected by the tsunami. This includes $15,000 to India Partners to
62 mobilize a local emergency relief medical team along the coastal villages of Andhra Pradesh, and $39,000 to the Emmanuel Hospital Association (a national NGO) to deploy medical teams to the South Andaman district. In addition to health care, clothing, food, and hygiene kits were distributed. In Thailand, Northwest Medical Teams contributed $31,000 to assist in the rebuilding of livelihoods by re-supplying boats and fish stocks to local fishermen affected by the tsunami. In Somalia, Northwest Medical Teams funded $91,000 for the purchase of medicines and medical supplies in the affected areas of the country by the tsunami.
Total Private Donations: $39,750,000
Media Contact: Barbara Agnew, (503) 624-1022
For more information, please visit: http://www.nwmedicalteams.org
63 Operation USA.
Operation USA is a 25 year old disaster relief and development NGO based in Los Angeles. Our mission is to assist developing communities here and abroad in addressing problems relating to natural and manmade disasters and chronic poverty through the creation of sustainable health, nutrition and disaster response programs. We provide essential materials, training, advocacy and financial support for such programs. We neither seek nor accept US Government funding.
Sri Lanka Emergency Relief included cash grants to the Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) for shelter and water purification, and to Sarvodaya for the same; air shipment to the TRO of emergency medicines; 7 sea container shipments of baby food, rice, tools, roofing materials and water purification materials; a 16-member trauma counseling and children's Play Therapy training team to Jaffna, Colombo, Trincomalee and Galle; two physicians for medical needs assessment in the north and east; 2000 water purification units airshipped and two microbiology trainers for the TRO in Kaluminai and Batticaloa Districts. Long-term Rehabilitation Projects include rebuilding an entire village in Kalledi in the Trincomalee District with the TRO (235 homes, 125 equipped fishing boats, 100 wells and latrines, a school, a clinic, a community center, a medical evacuation vehicle, a refrigerated vehicle for getting fish to market and 34 agricultual kits for farm families to produce food for the village and for sale); a 10-village project in economic reintegration with Sarvodaya in the Matara District; and, rebuilding a school house in Galle.
India Emergency relief in form of cash grants to Pondichery Institute of Medical Science (purchase of medicines and supplies), Auroville Community Relief Project (environmental clean up) and Vivekanand Medical Research Society (mobile clinic and medicines). Long-term rehabilitation projects: houses and fishing boats in Tamil Nadu south of Chennai to Vivekanand Medical Research Society.
Thailand Emergency relief to Forever Love Foundation in Satun Province (housing tsunami orphans, fisherfolk for boats). Long-term rehabilitation project: Life Home Foundation building for art therapy and vocational training for tsunami and HIV/AIDS orphans on Phuket.
Indonesia Emergency relief included sending a Boeing 747 cargo jet with $7.5M in in-kind medicines, hygiene and water purification supplies to Islamic Relief, an NGO partner, for distribution throughout Aceh; and, a cash grant for purchase of a vehicle to Indonesian NGO, Nurani Dunia. Long Term rehabilitation projects are in education, health, water, village rebuilding, micro- credit. Partners include Nurani Dunia with several others still in negotiation.
Total Private Donations: $15,000,000
Media Contact: Richard Walden, (323) 658-8876 For more information, please visit: http://www.opusa.org/
64 Oxfam America
Oxfam America is an international development and relief agency committed to creating lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. Working with Oxfam affiliates and local partners, Oxfam America carries out emergency relief services, development programs, and campaigns to overcome the political, economic, and social policies that exclude much of the world's population from opportunity and political participation.
Oxfam America raised $30 million for its tsunami response. Oxfam America and its affiliates around the world have unified their tsunami programs and pooled their donations into a single fund that is expected to reach $250 million. Oxfam is providing clean water, sanitation, shelter, food, cash-for-work projects, and programs to revive and improve livelihoods.
As the purpose of this report is to describe programs that are funded exclusively by US donors, InterAction is not including a detailed description of the Oxfam America/Oxfam International combined tsunami response. For more information about Oxfam's programs, please visit the Oxfam America tsunami Web pages at http://www.oxfamamerica.org/whatwedo/emergencies/asian_floods_2004.
Total Private Donations: $30,000,000
Media Contact: Elizabeth Stevens, (617) 728-2478
65 Plan USA
Plan USA strives to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of deprived children in developing countries through a process that unites people across cultures and adds meaning and value to their lives by: enabling deprived children, their families and their communities to meet their basic needs and to increase their ability to participate in and benefit from their societies; building relationships to increase understanding and unity among peoples of different cultures and countries; and advocating for the rights and interests of the world’s children. Plan works with communities, as well as local and international partner organizations to implement programs in the areas of Health, Education, Habitat and Shelter, and inter-cultural communications. Working through a process known as Child-Centered Community Development, Plan is part of a network of 60 countries, working with children and families throughout Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Caribbean, and in Albania.
Plan USA raised $1,986,000 from private sources through March 31. Plan USA is part of Plan International, a confederation of international members that pooled the private funds they received for tsunami response. These funds were allocated to specific humanitarian, recovery and reconstruction activities. Plan USA joined private American contributions with those of other global donors and does not distinguish the use of private contributions by donor nationality. For information on the tsunami-related activities of members of Plan International, consult the following web sites: http://www.planusa.org and http://www.plan-international.org/.
Total Private Donations: $1,986,000
Media Contact: Carol Donnelly, 401-738-5600 x. 1340
66 Project HOPE
Project HOPE, founded in 1958, conducts health education and medical humanitarian assistance to communities around the world, with a special emphasis on women and children. Health programs are focused on several areas of expertise: infectious diseases (including HIV/AIDS and TB); maternal and child health; health systems and facilities; health professional education; and humanitarian assistance. While the methodology changes based on local needs and resources, the ultimate goal of HOPE's work is long-term, sustainable improvements in health and health systems.
Indonesia Project HOPE shipped about $7 million worth of urgently needed medicines and supplies, destined for hospitals in Aceh Province, Indonesia, through a collaboration with FedEx, Uplift International, and the Indonesian Doctors Association. As our intermediate response, nearly 300 health care providers from across the U.S. joined Project HOPE on a humanitarian aid mission aboard the USNS Mercy to bring health and hope to thousands of tsunami survivors in Indonesia. Project HOPE is assessing feasibility of long-term rehabilitation strategies that would focus on the health of women and children.
Thailand HOPE staff in Thailand visited the most damaged areas of the country and immediately purchased emergency supplies requested by local officials. Upcoming plans include assisting the Thai Ministry of Health with the creation and implementation of training programs for up- grading nurses’ skills in critical care.
Sri Lanka Project HOPE has worked with partner organizations to deliver more than $2.2 million worth of medical assistance.
Total Private Donations: $12,400,000
Media Contact: Lori Allesee, 540-837-2100
For more information, please visit: http://www.projecthope.org
67 Refugees International
Refugees International, a Washington-based advocacy organization is an independent voice for humanitarian action on behalf of the least-known and most vulnerable victims of war, famine and disaster. Founded in response to the forced repatriation of tens of thousands of Indochinese refugees in 1979, Refugees International (RI) is a non-governmental organization serving refugees, internally displaced persons, and other dispossessed people around the world. Refugees International accepts no government or UN funds and, thus, we rely on the support of concerned individuals, foundations, and corporations. On-site field assessment missions are the heart of Refugees International’s work. Refugees International field representatives assess the situation and recommend concrete actions to protect people and save lives. We distribute our brief, timely reports to policy and opinion makers worldwide to mobilize help for the victims and follow up with public, private, and media advocacy.
Indonesia Refugees International conducted an assessment mission to Aceh in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, spending two weeks in Indonesia in early January 2005. The focus of the mission was on the performance of the relief agencies; inter-agency coordination; the role of the Indonesian and other military forces; and the plans for community recovery and rebuilding. Refugees International’s most pressing concern based on this mission was the need to support community recovery in Aceh by providing funds directly to community organizations and individuals who were prepared to make their own decisions as to how they wished to rebuild. Refugees International also spoke out against the creation of long-term resettlement camps for displaced persons. Refugees International plans a follow-up assessment mission to assess the status of the relief and recovery effort in May 2005.
Sri Lanka Refugees International conducted an assessment mission to Sri Lanka in early January 2005, a mission conducted in close cooperation with one of the country’s leading local NGOs, Sewa Lanka. With Sewa Lanka’s assistance, RI traveled widely on the island to assess the damage and recovery efforts, including extensive time in areas under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Refugees International’s advocacy has focused on the need to rebuild the fishing industry and on the importance of providing assistance in a balanced manner to all parts of the country. In February, a Refugees International volunteer spent one week in Sri Lanka documenting the impact of the tsunami on schools and education. Refugees International plans to send a return assessment mission to Sri Lanka in July. While Refugees International does not normally implement or fund operational programs, we have accepted a special gift of $21,800 for children in Sri Lanka. RI plans to divide the funds evenly between two local NGOs: Sewa Lanka and the Office of Eelam Refugee Rehabilitation. We expect to disburse these funds by the middle of April.
Total Private Donations: $51,000
Media Contact: Megan Fowler 202-828-0110 ext. 214
For more information, please visit: http://www.refugeesinternational.org
68 Relief International
Relief International (RI)’s mission is to save lives and rebuild sustainable livelihoods. RI dedicates itself to providing emergency, rehabilitation, and developmental services that address the long-term developmental needs of its beneficiaries even while in the emergency phase. Our programs are holistic and multi-sectoral, including health, shelter, education, community development, agriculture, food security, livelihood, income generation, conflict resolution, and Internet connectivity. Over the past 15 years, RI has implemented programs in more than 40 countries. We employ innovative approaches to program design, adhere to a high quality of implementation, and in several large-scale crises, have been the first US-based agency to provide assistance to communities in need. RI recognizes that disasters have the most negative impact on the lives of the poor and poverty eradication is integral to disaster mitigation. By eradicating the root causes of poverty and social injustice, disaster relief efforts can also engender positive social change. RI's grassroots participatory approach and our focus on developmental needs together foster self-help and sustainability in communities served.
Sri Lanka Relief International’s tsunami relief programming has reached more than 10,000 beneficiaries in the first 90 days of operation in Sri Lanka. We began work in the districts of Hambantota and are now concentrated in Ampara, particularly in Ullai, Potuvil, Aragum Bay, Panama, and Nintavur. Relief International has implemented an integrated program of relief supplies, school supplies, food rations, drinking water, and health services distribution. We have also implemented water and sanitation, classroom reconstruction and rehabilitation, emergency shelter, and emergency livelihood restoration projects. During early deployment, we provided transport for the distribution of emergency shelter material by local groups. Relief International has established a temporary shelter construction program in Ullai and provided single-family houses that can be later moved or reused for livelihoods activities. Our emergency shelter program targets approximately 50 families. In addition to shelter, Relief International has lead school reconstruction projects in Ullai and Potuvil. In the initial weeks following the tsunami, our teams conducted a survey of the damage sustained and provided cash-for-work opportunities for debris clean-up and began repairing boats and mending nets. By forming cooperative relationships with local microfinance organizations, Relief International also has empowered women by financing small businesses and delivering the first of a $25,000 package in small loans. The emergency livelihood restoration program has benefited approximately 200 families.
Relief International plans to continue working closely with community members to identify durable solutions to the problems that they consider to be a priority. After conducting a strategic review of our programming, Relief International is committed to at least two years of longer- term programming in both tsunami and non-tsunami affected areas through livelihood restoration using microfinance strategies and education through technology. In order to continue to assist families in restoring their livelihoods in areas such as commerce, fishing, vocational trades, and cottage industries, a Revolving Micro credit Loan Fund with an initial start-up capital of $250,000 was launched. In the education sector, Relief International will work with communities to integrate computers and internet into schools as a means to promote technical skills development, cross-cultural understanding and peace.
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Total Private Donations: $709,000
Media Contact: Meryn Perryman, (310) 478 –1200
For more information, please visit: http://www.ri.org
70 Salvation Army World Service Organization
SAWSO is a multi-disciplinary team of international development professionals whose mission is to support and strengthen The Salvation Army's (TSA's) efforts to work hand in hand with communities to improve the health, economic and spiritual conditions of the poor throughout the world. Its mandate relative to the tsunami crisis in South Asia is to receive, account and report on the utilization of public funds, leverage other financial support as needed, assist in project development, provide technical support as needed, and coordinate all aspects of the USA TSA response with TSA's international and regional offices.
$11.3m of the approximate $15m now documented as received from the USA public are committed to 10 long term Salvation Army projects valued at approximately $26m. Further commitments to these or yet to be developed projects are anticipated.
India Working directly with communities from the onset, The Salvation Army addressed one of the most immediate, identified needs by providing food to 4,525 families (some 24,000 people) in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and the islands of Andaman and Nicobar. As other needs were identified items such as clothing, household and hygiene items, bedding, cook stoves, farm and masonry/carpentry tools, as well as fishing nets/implements were distributed. Counseling and medical teams also provided interventions for many. School books, recreation and other activities for children were supplied. Six long term projects valued at $13m are in various stages of development/implementation. These projects target shelter, microfinance (redevelopment of livelihoods, credit), and community capacity building (post trauma counseling and disaster preparedness).
Indonesia Salvation Army ‘Compassion in Action’ teams were helping internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Banda Aceh within hours of the tsunami. Their health assistance continues and is given without discrimination to all in need: IDPs, volunteers, military soldiers, and others. Currently a team is providing medical assistance in Lapang 2 camps to 503 families (2,770 persons) waiting to be relocated in barracks while houses are being built. Current rehabilitation and reconstruction projects planned for Aceh/Meuloboh and Nias Island are valued at $11m. These projects target shelter and community reconstruction (500 - 2,000 houses, 3 primary schools and 2 health centers), mobile clinic services (1,500 beneficiaries) and community capacity building (post trauma counseling and training in disaster preparedness).
Sri Lanka Immediately after the tsunami The Salvation Army began to deliver emergency relief to victims. The following items were included in these early distributions: 300 cases food items; 250 cases condensed milk; 1,000 packets milk powder; 1,500 blankets; mats, bedding and some baby formula. Within days the early efforts and resources of these few, first responders were augmented and distributions (including clothes, biscuits, flashlights, shoes, mosquito nets, kerosene lamps, school uniforms, student backpacks, school supplies, funds for restoration and repair of fifty small business rope-making machines and replacement of craftsmen tools and equipment, travel bags, bicycles, kitchen and personal items) targeted more people and more
71 needs. Thirty tents were raised to provide temporary housing and early reconstruction projects included the building of a workshop/storage facility and seven temporary houses. One of two longer term projects currently being developed targeted Gullagoda (Galle District), but may now target Ampara. Targeted in the other project are Kalutara and Matara. These projects, valued at approximately $7m, will provide for the reconstruction of over 1,000 houses, help restore livelihoods, and build the capacity of communities (post trauma counseling and training in disaster preparedness).
Total Private Donations: $20,500,000
Media Contact: Patricia A Kiddoo, (703) 684-5525
For more information, please visit: http://www.sawso.org
72 Save the Children USA
Save the Children USA one of the nation's leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world. Based in Westport, CT, Save the Children USA is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance, comprising 27 national Save the Children organizations working in more than 100 countries to ensure the well being of children. During the first three months of Save the Children USA's response effort following the tsunami, the bulk of U.S. private donations went to support Save the Children USA's relief effort in Indonesia, with remaining donations assisting efforts in India and Sri Lanka.
Indonesia Save the Children USA worked in Aceh province and northern Sumatra for nearly 30 years prior to the tsunami and played a leading role in responding to survivors of the tsunami in northern Sumatra, the region of south Asia with the highest death toll from the tsunami. Private donations financed Save the Children USA's provision of food, water, shelter and medicines to 150,000 of the tsunami survivors the agency assisted. Save the Children USA also helped provide critical non-food items, including household kits, medical kits, and school supplies, and helped support protection programs for children separated from their parents, resulting in scores of reunifications of children with parents or loved ones. In addition, Save the Children has provided safe play areas for hundreds of displaced and affected children, and provided psychosocial training for teachers, and programs for children. Initial health interventions included distribution of medical kits, deployment of emergency medical teams, and distribution of baby and supplemental food. Cash for work programs cleared mud and debris from schools, mosques and other public buildings. Prototype semi-permanent shelters are being developed, which will provide low cost environmentally friendly shelter for homeless families. Save the Children USA has a five-year plan for reconstruction and rehabilitation currently under development, and is working closely with line ministries, counterpart organizations, and beneficiary communities in the design and implementation of our longer-term projects.
Total Private Donations: $58,486,000
Media Contact: Mike Kiernan, (202) 261-4686
For more information, please visit: http://www.savethechildren.org/emergencies/tsunami_update_040705.asp
73 Trickle Up Program
The Trickle Up Program has been working to assist the poorest of the poor for over 25 years through microenterprise development and has started over 130,000 businesses in a total of 120 countries. Today, Trickle Up focuses it's microenterprise development efforts in Cambodia, Bolivia, Burkina Faso ,Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Mali, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, and Uganda as well as the United States. Additionally, Trickle Up has resumed operations in Sri Lanka and Indonesia through the Tsunami Assistance Fund to support our work in assisting individuals affected by the tsunami through microenterprise development.
Sri Lanka The Trickle Up Program sent a senior consultant to the region during February, 2005, in order to assess the need for microenterprise development services. The assessment mission was conducted extensively through Indonesia and Sri Lanka and included local and international agencies related to and involved in microenterprise development. Trickle Up chose to partner with the SANASA Development Bank, Ltd. in order to provide microgrant and business support services through its extensive network of cooperatives in tsunami-affected areas of Sri Lanka. Trickle Up Executive Director, Richenda Van Leeuwen, and Dr. P.A. Kiriwandeniya, Leader of the SANASA movement and the Chairman of the SANASA Development Bank, Ltd. signed a Memorandum of Understanding in New York City on February 21, 2005 agreeing to begin operations in Sri Lanka as soon as possible. The Trickle Up Program will rebuild livelihoods and replace economic assets for the poorest individuals in Sri Lanka affected by the tsunami. Through this partnership, Trickle Up will provide equity or 'seed capital' to individuals so that they can start or rebuild microenterprises and restore their lives.
Total Private Donations: $79,000
Media Contact: Allyson Wainer, (212) 255-9980
For more information, please visit: http://www.trickleup.org
74 United Methodist Committee on Relief
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) responds to natural or human made disasters-- interruptions of such magnitude that it overwhelms a community's ability to recover on its own. UMCOR's mission is to alleviate human suffering with open minds to all religions and open hearts to all people. UMCOR is the humanitarian, non-proselytizing agency of the United Methodist Church.
Indonesia (Banda Aceh, Nias). In the health sector, UMCOR provided antibiotics for 100,000 people. In emergency response, UMCOR joined an ecumenical coalition to support distribution of emergency drinking water, tents, plastic sheeting, cooking supplies, and other nonfood items, and additional assistance including 34,000 health kits. To support its plans for ongoing work in Indonesia, an UMCOR worker is conducting assessments, preparing grant requests, and has opened an office in Banda Aceh. Future long-term commitments include shelter reconstruction and income generation projects.
India In southern India, our emergency response provided grants in an ecumenical coalition to respond to displaced persons with water, temporary shelter, clothing, food and medicines in Tamil Nadu (30,000 families), Kerala (10,000 families) and Andhra Pradesh (10,000 families). In the health sector, UMCOR funded mobile medical teams that deployed into remote areas for emergency treatment of about 12,000 people.
Sri Lanka In an ecumenical coalition, UMCOR provided emergency supplies. In Colombo and Verugal, an UMCOR worker is providing coordination, assessment, and grant writing services. UMCOR plans long-term operations there for income generation and shelter reconstruction. UMCOR grants are assisting with establishing fishing societies to restore economic vitality in 16 fishing villages. In Kalkudah, UMCOR supported cash for work employment to clear beaches of debris. These are integrated programs assisting 1,200 people.
Somalia UMCOR funds supported restoration of fishing craft and industry supplies for 1,500 families in several villages in the coastal area affected.
Thailand UMCOR funds supported school construction and social outreach programs for 60 Burmese migrant families living in coastal Thailand.
Total Private Donations: $32,400,000
Media Contact: Linda Beher, (212) 870-3815
For more information, please visit: http://www.umcor.org
75 USA for UNHCR
Established by concerned American citizens, the United States Association for UNHCR (USA for UNHCR) builds support in the United States for the humanitarian work of UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). USA for UNHCR supports UNHCR’s life-saving work around the world through the help of individuals, corporations and foundations. In addition, USA for UNHCR reaches out to educate Americans, through public education programs and events, about the plight of refugees and the work of UNHCR. UNHCR is responsible for protecting over 17 million people worldwide who have been forced to flee their homes due to persecution or war. During emergencies, UNHCR and its partners provide refugees with water, shelter, healthcare and other types of assistance. In addition, the organization helps to ensure that all refugees can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another country, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate into their country of asylum or to resettle in a third country. UNHCR operates in more than 116 countries.
USA for UNHCR raised $1,092,000 for tsunami response. USA for UNHCR and its affiliates around the world have pooled their donations into a single fund that UNHCR is using to address the tsunami crisis. UNHCR’s humanitarian assistance focuses on providing shelter, non-food relief supplies and logistical support. Private funds raised by USA for UNHCR were used for UNHCR program activities in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Somalia.
As the purpose of this report is to describe programs that are funded exclusively by US donors, InterAction is not including a detailed description of the USA for UNHCR/UNHCR tsunami response. For more information about program activities carried out by UNHCR in the tsunami- affected region, please visit the following website: http://www.unrefugees.org
Total Private Donations: $1,092,000
Media Contact: Elaine Bole, 202-296-5191 x.23
76 U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
The mission of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) is to address the needs and rights of persons in forced or voluntary migration worldwide by advancing fair and humane public policy, facilitating and providing direct professional services, and promoting the full participation of migrants in community life.
Thailand After the devastating tsunami, the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants began a six- month emergency relief program for Burmese migrants in Ranong, Phangnga, Krabi, Phuket, Trang, and Satun provinces in southern Thailand. USCRI is initiating short-term relief projects and assessing needs to establish long term health and education projects for approximately 4,000 Burmese migrants living in 20 settlements in these provinces. With the support of private donations, USCRI will continue longer-term assistance to meet the education and security needs of this population.
Total Private Donations: $47,000
Media Contact: Jennifer Divis, (202) 797-2105 Ext. 3019
For more information, please visit: http://www.refugees.org
77 U.S. Fund for UNICEF
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF works for the survival, protection and development of children worldwide through education, advocacy and fundraising. Created in 1947, it is the oldest of 37 national committees around the world that support UNICEF's mission. UNICEF has been working in each of the tsunami-affected countries for decades, providing health care, clean water, improved nutrition, education, and protection.
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF raised $103,800,000 for tsunami response. The US. Fund for UNICEF and its affiliates around the world have pooled their donations into a single fund that UNICEF is using to address the crisis. UNICEF’s programs focus on health and nutrition, child protection, education, and water and sanitation.
As the purpose of this report is to describe programs that are funded exclusively by US donors, InterAction is not including a detailed description of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF/UNICEF tsunami response. For more information about program activities carried out by UNICEF in the tsunami-affected region, please visit the following website: http://www.unicefusa.org/tsunaminews
Total Private Donations: $103,800,000
Media Contact: Kini Schoop, (212) 686-5522
78 World Concern
World Concern works in the areas of relief, rehabilitation and development to help the recipients in developing countries achieve self-sufficiency, economic independence, physical health and spiritual peace through integrated community development.
Thailand World Concern partnered with a local church in the village of Nai Rai in Phang Nga Province in southern Thailand to provide medicines, drinking water and other supplies to two hospitals in the area within the first 24 hours after the tsunami. World Concern also provided food, hygiene and sanitation items, cook kits, children’s clothing and medical supplies to 50 families of Nai Rai village. Duration of emergency phase was December 26, 2004 – January 15, 2005. Rehabilitation efforts include providing housing for 500 families, restoring fishery activities through provision or repair of boats and related equipment for 2-3,000 families, helping 300 families diversify their livelihood activities to include animal husbandry, small business and agriculture, and equipping project staff to appropriately address psycho-social needs of the people who have been traumatized by the tsunami, with efforts concentrated in the smaller communities where relief has been slow to reach. Duration of Rehab phase – March 1, 2005 – August 31, 2007.
Sri Lanka World Concern worked with local partner Stromme Foundation to initially provide survival kits (food, water, hygiene and personal items) to 22,235 families on the east, west and southern coasts of Sri Lanka targeting Ampara, Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Hambantota, Kalutara and Galle Districts, and cooksets to 5,500 families in Kalututa and Galle Districts. Supplies were assembled to meet need, i.e. not all beneficiaries received the same items. We helped support the cleaning of wells to restore access to safe drinking water for more than 2,000 families and helped provide immediate work to 610 families left without an income in the Ampara District on the eastern coast. Duration of Emergency Phase: December 26, 2004 – mid-January 2005. Rehabilitation efforts include well rehabilitation and cash-for-work (2,650 families), access to free construction materials (1,000 families), reconstruction of houses (1,000 families), access to clean water and sanitation (1,000 families), restored livelihoods (fishing, small-scale farming, livestock replenishing, small businesses), and livelihood development (boat building training, net repair training and income improvement), to 3,000-4,000 families, and psycho-social care initiatives for 2,500 adults and children. As some beneficiaries overlap in different sectors, total estimate of beneficiaries is rounded down to 7,000 families (35,000 people). Duration of Rehab Phase: January 2005 – September 2007.
Somalia World Concern’s efforts in Somalia are focusing on providing food and shelter materials, cooking supplies, water containers, medicines and funding the repair or replacement of fishing boats, fishing nets, anchors and diving kits to residents of Somalia’s offshore islands (Kismayu, Madoa and Burgavo Islands). These efforts are reaching an estimated 13,500 direct beneficiaries. Duration of the project is January 20 – April 21, 2005.
79 Total Private Donations: $3,742,000
Media Contact: Nancy Lewis, 206-546-7310
For more information, please visit: http://worldconcern.org/html/Projects-Relief- AsiaFloodRelief.htm
80 World Hope International
World Hope International is a faith-based relief and development organization alleviating suffering and injustice through education, enterprise and community health. World Hope International partners with individuals and organizations from around the world to promote justice, encourage self-sufficiency, and inspire spiritual hope through programs such as economic development, leadership development, skill training, a child sponsorship program and community health initiatives.
Indonesia World Hope International currently is working with Lembaga Harapan Sejahtera (Hope Institute) and Medan Peduli (Medan Care) to provide food and medicine to 336 displaced persons affected by the tsunami and who are currently living in refugee camps in Indonesia. Over the last few months, WHI has sent a team of doctors and nurses to these camps to tend to those in need. WHI has also provided uniforms, textbooks to schools in Meulaboh and helped 500 refugee children living in Medan by paying their school tuition. They have also provided travel money to those refugees taken to Medan after the tsunami so that they could go back to Aceh to look for their missing relatives and look for their personal belongings. WHI opened a temporary housing unit for families wanting to leave the refugee camps. They also rented homes for one year to help 36 refugee families get back on their feet as well as helped 3 families with funds to help them restart their businesses.
Sri Lanka World Hope International partnered with their Sri Lankan partner, Community Hope Trust Fund, bought land and started rebuilding eleven of the projected 100 homes affected by the tsunami. In addition to their rebuilding efforts, they have provided much needed emergency supplies, such as: food, medicine and cooking utensils to approximately 500 people.
Total Private Donations: $933,007
Media Contact: Michelle Grasso, (703) 923-9414 ext 112
For more information, please visit: http://www.worldhope.org/worldhope/aboutnew.htm
81 World Relief
World Relief works in more than 20 countries in relief and development through micro- finance, disaster response, refugee resettlement, food security, child development, maternal and child health and HIV/AIDS prevention and care. The Mission of World Relief, as originated within the National Association of Evangelicals, is to work with, for and from the Church to relieve human suffering, poverty and hunger worldwide in the name of Jesus Christ.
Sri Lanka World Relief is partnering with a local organization in Sri Lanka that has contacts in the 4 heaviest impacted provinces in the country. Even in the Tamil Tiger controlled areas our partner is free to travel because of their long history of development work in these areas. Over 80 trucks with emergency relief supplies were delivered to teams of volunteers including medical staff who served round the clock in some of the worst affected areas. The latter in particular responded to urgent requests for medicines from hospitals and medical clinics in Kallar, Thalaiadi, Valachchenai and Mullativu. Water Purification Systems installed in Kallar (Batticaloa) and Mullaitivu provide people drinkable water to Over 750 wells have been desalinated in Thiriyai (Trincomalee District) and a water pump donated to the hospital is producing over 1000 liters / day. The total cost of emergency relief distributed up to date under stage one is Rs 89 million (approx. $890,000). Current projects include building temporary shelters of galvanized sheeting and steel tubing. Future plans are to continue working in the same districts reaching other needy people with shelter, medical, livelihood assistance and water and sanitation. Total number of potential beneficiaries is 15,000. World Relief is working to build up the capacity of its partner to meet the needs of local inhabitants in many areas of Sri Lanka. The goal of World Relief is to provide monetary and physical support and train local care givers to provide the long term interventions necessary to restore the health and well being of the communities where we work. It is currently expected that World Relief would provide $500,000 once the proposal of our local partner is approved.
India World Relief is working with two local partners in India to reach out to the victims in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala States. Due to the severe losses along the coast, World Relief is working to completely rebuild shelters for 200 families. World Relief is also rebuilding the livelihoods of these same families by providing fishing nets, boats and motors for those who experienced the loss of the tools of their trade.The long term intervention plans are to provide the boats and other assets to local Community based organizations which will rent them out at greatly reduced rates. The money raised would fund the purchase of more boats that could then be rented as well. Another partner has been operating 5 relief camps in the Andaman Islands. In addition to running the camps the partner has also been providing emergency tutoring to enable the affected children to prepare for the national test that was delayed long enough for the victims of the Tsunami to be ready. Hygiene kits were distributed to over 2187 families in the early days and now longer term items such as stoves, chairs, kitchen kits and fishing nets are given in response to other needs. World Relief is considering proposals for a $500,000 intervention in the coming months.
82 Indonesia World Relief is embarking on Indonesia rehabilitation efforts in the areas in and surrounding Banda Aceh and Meulaboh. World Relief is in the process of finalizing rehabilitation to take place in the short term (March 05 - June 05), mid-term (July 05 - December 05) and long term (January 05 - December 06). Sector specific program activities include: 1) supporting rehabilitation of shelter including the support of spontaneous reconstruction activities (beneficiaries = 500 families) and constructing 1000 new homes (beneficiaries = 1000 families); 2) Provision of essential services including the distribution of starter kits (beneficiaries = 1500) and the repair of wells for home being reconstructed (beneficiaries = 700 families); 3) Rehabilitation and construction of schools; 4) Livelihood rehabilitation efforts which will include restoration of small businesses (beneficiaries = 2000 business owners) assisting farmers to reclaim rice fields (beneficiaries = 500 farmers) and promoting the restoration of fishing boats and the fishing industry (beneficiaries = 800 individuals).
Total Private Donations: $5,768,226
Media Contact: Chris Pettit, (443)451-1966
For more information, please visit: http://www.worldrelief.org
83 World Vision World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty. World Vision helps transform the lives of the world's poorest children and families in nearly 100 countries by extending assistance to all people, regardless of their religious beliefs, gender, race, or ethnic background.
India World Vision has provided relief assistance to 210,000 people in 11 districts, 3 states (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala), and 2 union territories (Pondicherry and Port Blair). Relief activities in the first 90 days included distribution of food, water, mats, and non-food items, as well as the provision of temporary shelter, counseling, economic recovery programs, child friendly spaces, and restoration of the education system in relief camps and villages. World Vision will focus long-term rehabilitation and development programming in the districts of Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Kanyakumari, Chennai/Kalpuakkam, Pondicherry, Kollam/Alleppy, Godavari, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. While relief assistance continues, World Vision will focus on psycho-social activities, child and family protection, water/sanitation, health, education, shelter, HIV/AIDS, disaster preparedness, environmental recovery, community capacity building, economic recovery, livelihood security, and reconstruction/rehabilitation of shelter, public buildings, and roads.
Indonesia World Vision has provided relief assistance to over 39,500 people in Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar (Lhoknga, Leupung, and Lhoong), Aceh Jaya (Lamno), Aceh Barat (Meulaboh), and Aceh Barat Daya (Blang Pidie). World Vision’s response in the first 90 days included food and non-food assistance, child focused programming, protection (children, gender, and property rights), education, shelter (construction of temporary living centers), water/sanitation, and health. Long- term development in these districts will expand on relief activities in each sector and include semi-permanent and permanent housing construction, reconstructing/rehabilitating schools, disaster preparedness, and livelihood recovery. Cash for work, re-capitalization of businesses, vocational and business management training, rebuilding of critical economic infrastructure, and microcredit activities will comprise livelihood recovery activities.
Sri Lanka World Vision immediately responded to the December 26 tsunami that affected the coastline of Sri Lanka with distributions of cooked food, dry rations, kitchen utensils, clothing, medicines, and water. Child focused programming, shelter, health, education, and water/sanitation initiatives closely followed initial relief activities. In the first 90 days, World Vision provided assistance to over 776,400 people in the districts of Ampara, Batticaloa, Colombo, Galle, Hambantota, Jaffna, Kalutara, Kilinochchi, Matara, Mullaitivu, and Trincomalee. Long-term rehabilitation and development in these districts will involve school feeding programs, temporary and permanent shelter construction, health (including clinic reconstruction), education (including school reconstruction/rehabilitation), water/sanitation, children’s programs (including child friendly spaces and playgrounds), and reconstruction of vital infrastructure.
84 Thailand World Vision has provided relief assistance to approximately 57,000 people affected by the tsunami in the provinces of Krabi (Lanta), Phang Nga (Bang Muang, Khao Lak, Kuraburi, Nairai, Nam Khem, Tablamu), Phuket, Ranong, and Trang. In the first 90 days following the December 26 earthquake and subsequent tsunamis, World Vision provided aid in the sectors of shelter, child protection, psycho-social counseling, education, health, livelihood security, and the distribution of food and non-food items. Long-term rehabilitation and development will expand upon sector-specific relief activities.
Total Private Donations: $63,036,000
Media Contact: Elizabeth Hopfinger, (202) 572-6383
For more information, please visit: http://www.wvtsunami.org/
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