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An Indian tsunami survivor looks through a window at a relief camp in Kanniyakumari.
Photo by SUCHETA DAS
Photo by SUCHETA DAS
Has teams in Sri Lanka building latrines and analysing drinking water supplies. Recovering bodies and distributing mosquito nets, blankets, towels and mattresses to survivors.
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Providing relief to survivors in Batticaloa, Trincomalee and Jaffna in Sri Lanka, constructing latrines, trucking in water and ferrying bodies to hospital for identification. Has sent water and sanitation equipment to Sri Lanka. Conducting further needs assessments in Indonesia.
Click here to donate to this organisation ActionAid - Spain (Ayuda en Acción)
Providing medical and psychosocial assistance in Tamil Nadu, India. Click here to donate to ActionAid International ActionAid - USA
Distributing medical supplies, food items and shelter material, as well as providing psychosocial support and helping restore livelihoods in India. In Thailand, working to provide fishing boats and rebuild homes. Activities in Sri Lanka include help with restoring livelihoods, providing shelter, psychosocial rehabilitation and training local educators in counselling, getting schools running again and training local educators in counselling.Click here to donate to this organisation ActionAid - UK
Distributing posters and leaflets in Tamil on how to beat trauma and providing a training programme on psychosocial recovery in Chennai. Click here to donate to ActionAid International Action Medeor - Germany
Sent medical equipment, mosquito nets and water purification systems to Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand.Click here to donate to this organisation Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International - USA
ADRA has opened two clinics in Lhokseumawe, northern Aceh, and sent supplies to Banda Aceh. Sent equipment to treat respiratory infections and damaged lungs to Meulaboh and supplied tents for temporary schools. A medical team is in Kalmunai, eastern Sri Lanka, and the organisation is disinfecting temples used as temporary morgues. Setting up shelters and providing health education for children in the Andaman Islands, assessing the needs of fishing villages in Andra Pradesh. In Thailand, ADRA is planning to work on water systems and boats on the islands of Phrathong and Surin.
Click here to donate to this organisation Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) - Germany
Together with Johanniter International, the organisation is purifying water in Kudawella, a Sri Lankan fishing village.
Click here to donate to this organisation Agence d'Aide à la Coopération Technique et au Développement (ACTED) - France
Activities include water and sanitation, economic revitalisation programmes in agriculture and fishing, and distributing mosquito nets in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India.
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Supporting local and international organisations in Indonesia with money from its Crisis Fund. The funds will help send 40 doctors to Aceh.
Click here to donate to this organisation American Jewish World Service (AJWS) - USA
Working with 24 local NGOs to assess needs in the region and provide food, water, shelter and medicine as well as long-term support. Partnered with Direct Relief International to provide shipments of donated medical supplies to local aid groups in India and Sri Lanka, and with Church World Service and International Rescue Committee to provide emergency relief in Indonesia.
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After immediate relief, the organisation plans long-term food and safe water projects, health care and disease prevention, mental health counselling and disaster preparedness and prevention measures. The American Red Cross has reached its fundraising target for tsunami response but welcomes funds for other projects.
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Distributing medical supplies, clean water, trauma counselling, and planning to provide fishing boats for families in southern Thailand.
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Mobilising an airlift of medical supplies, personal hygiene items and water purification equipment to Sri Lanka. Planning relief shipments to India, Indonesia and Thailand.
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Working with partners in the hardest-hit areas of Sri Lanka and Indonesia's Aceh to provide emergency relief, including water, sanitation, food, shelter, fuel and medical supplies.
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Work includes providing medical assistance, clean water, food and shelter in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
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The organisation has chartered seven cargo flights with relief items and sent its delegates to the affected region to help aid programmes. It sent 400 tonnes of goods to Sri Lanka, including kitchen sets, blankets, hygiene sets, tarpaulins and jerry cans.
Click here to donate to this organisation Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) - UK
Working with Caritas International, a global alliance of Catholic aid agencies, through local partners to provide relief and rehabilitation in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia.
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Distributed chlorine solution for disinfecting contaminated water and 20-litre jerry cans in Aceh. CARE is also addressing women’s issues in the camps, providing pre-natal care, teaching women about reproductive health and delivering hygiene kits, condoms and oral contraceptives.
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Caritas Germany has made 300,000 euros ($395,000) available to support relief efforts in southern India and Sri Lanka and is also coordinating with Diakonie Emergency Aid - Germany
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Click here to donate to Diakonie Emergency Aid - Germany Caritas Internationalis
Caritas member organisations are working to provide immediate relief and long-term recovery assistance in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand, providing water purification and sanitation, school supplies, shelter, medical care and trauma counselling. Caritas is also distributing food, clothing and other essential non-food items. More than $42.5 million is available within the Caritas network to respond to immense needs.
Click here to donate to this organisation Catholic Medical mission Board (CMMB) - USA
Assessing immediate needs of partners in Indonesia and Malaysia for medical volunteers, medical supplies and small programme grants. Collaborating with partners in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand to set up healthcare programmes for orphans, young people and women.
Click here to donate to this organisation Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - USA
CRS has committed al least $25 million to provide shelter and immediate healthcare needs. CRS and local partners mobilised to the hardest-hit areas of India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia.
Click here to donate to this organisation Christian Aid - UK
Has an ongoing relationship with Indian partner Christian Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) and is working through them in Tamil Nadu to provide blankets, medicine, clothing and plastic sheeting. An assessment team is working in Sri Lanka, where local partners are the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka and the Holistic Health Centre, based in Jaffna.
Click here to donate to this organisation Christian Children's Fund (CCF) - USA
Has emergency teams on the ground in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia. Distributing blankets, utensils and food, while assessing the special needs of children. May also set up child centres to provide children with a safe place to play.
Click here to donate to this organisation Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) - India
Has mobilised 12 relief teams in India, setting up five operational units in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. Emergency aid includes food, drinking water, plastic sheeting and household items. Also aims to build 40 multi-purpose disaster shelters in coastal villages and provide building materials.
Click here to donate to this organisation Church World Service (CWS) - USA
Planning a recovery programme in the Indonesian provinces of Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, Aceh Barat and Nagan Raya, including health and nutrition programmes, distribution of food and cooking materials, livelihoods recovery, capacity building, psychosocial support and water and sanition. Distributing food in Sri Lanka through CWS Pakistan. Financing the programmes of its partner in India, Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA). In Thailand, CWS donated a hundred medicine boxes.
Click here to donate to this organisation Clear Path international - USA
Sending hospital beds and mattresses to Chennai and working through local contacts to identify medical equipment and supply needs in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Click here to donate to this organisation Concern Worldwide - USA
Distributing emergency kits including shelter materials, rice, oil, spices, utensils, blankets, towels and clothers and offering cash-for-work schemes in Indian Tamil Nadu. In Indonesia, Concern is also implementing cash-for-work programmes and supplying computers and science kits for schools planned to reopen. Designing culturally appropriate sanitation facilities in the camps for the displaced. Working with Sri Lankan partner Project Galle 2005 to distribute emergency kits containing blankets, shelter materials and cooking implements. Concern is assisting another local partner, Sewalanka, in temporary housing, water and sanitation and livelihood projects in Galle, Matara and Hambantona.
Click here to donate to this organisation Direct Relief International (DRI) - USA
Has sent a seven-tonne plane with medicines, medical and surgical supplies to Sri Lanka, which will be donated to the local health system.
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A team is assessing needs for food, water, shelter and work in Chennai and Cuddalore districts of Tamil Nadu and Union Terrory in Pondicherry.
Click here to donate to this organisation Doctors of the World (MdM) – Spain (Médicos del Mundo)
Planning to establish a psychiatric unit in Trincomalee in cooperation with the Sri Lankan government, and has distributed hygiene kits. Operating a basic health care unit in Indonesia and staff have organised a mobile clinic to the villages of Sayam, Gelumpang and Rigah.
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If any British medics or logisticians are interested in volunteering to help with the crisis for a minimum of one month, call +44 207 516 9103
Click here to donate to this organisation Doctors of the World (DOW) - USA
Collecting funds to support relief efforts of its sister organisations in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Click here to donate to this organisation Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief (EFICOR) - India
EFICOR, together with Emmanuel Hospital Association and Discipleship Centre, is working in camps for displaced people in the Nicobar and Andaman Islands. In Kanyakumari district, it is distributing school material and books. In Colachel, Maraimadi and Vaniyakudi, it is handing out hygiene kits and household items.
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Assisting people in Sri Lankan districts of Ampara, Hambantota and Matara by supplying clean water, constructing latrines, temporary accommodation, non-food items, providing cash-for-work schemes, implementing fisheries programmes and carrying out clearing operation. In India, GOAL is providing food and non-food items in Nagappatinum and Andaman Islands, resources for medical and counselling centres in Karaikal, livelihood recovery and cash-for-work projects in Karaikal and Nagappatinum. Also responding to health, immunisation and sanitation needs in Indonesian Banda Aceh province.
Click here to donate to this organisation Handicap International (HI) - UK
Was already working in the Batticaloa and Ampara districts of Sri Lanka, and HI is now concentrating on post-trauma treatment, after initial involvement in transporting victims and providing first aid equipment.
Click here to donate to this organisation Health Partners International of Canada (HPIC) – Canada
Sending several million dollars’ worth of WHO-standard medical donations from Canada's health care industry.
Click here to donate to this organisation HELP (Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.) - Germany
Sending emergency specialists to Sri Lanka. Supporting a local organisation of volunteers in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, to bury the dead and distribute food and shelter.
Click here to donate to this organisation HelpAge International (HAI) - UK
Distributing vitamins, dietary supplements, clothes, cooking utensils, fishing nets, carpentry tools, hand looms, sewing machines, glasses, walking sticks, wheelchairs and frames for older people in Sri Lanka. Building temporary and permanent housing and offering social and psychological support for older people. In India, it is providing fishing boats and equipments, homes for families headed by older people, counselling and medical care and lobbying governments to grant pension benefits to older people.
Click here to donate to this organisation humedica e.V. - Germany
Has sent a medical team and supplies to Sri Lanka. Distributing food and blankets and setting up several mobile clinics operated by local doctors.
Click here to donate to this organisation International Aid Services (IAS) - Sweden
Helping local partners and NGOs provide clean water on Sri Lanka’s eastern coast.
Click here to donate to this organisation International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland
ICRC has provided medical supplies to hospitals in Aceh and restored some access to clean water. A logistics centre has been set up in Singapore to support relief operations in Aceh. ICRC has opened a new medical clinic in Eachchilampattai on Sri Lanka’s eastern coast, with the Norwegian Red Cross in charge. www.familylinks.icrc.org.
Click here to donate to the ICRC International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) – Switzerland
The IFRC will be assisting over two million people. Receiving assistance in Aceh from staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – Switzerland. In Indonesia, different European national societies are helping with water and sanitation and health issues. The Indonesian Red Cross is sending two five-tonne trucks with relief items to Meulaboh. The Thai Red Cross is assisting affected communities with food, clothes, shelter and fishing nets and has deployed a mobile clinic. Many African national societies have launched appeals to help the affected region.
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Sending a team of 25 trauma-specialist physicians and nurses to Banda Aceh. In Sri Lanka, IMC is planning to operate mobile health clinics, provide clean drinking water, distribute hygiene and sanitation kits, repair its clinic in Trincomalee and train local health workers, in partnership with VeAhavta, an all-volunteer American organisation.
Click here to donate to this organisation International Rescue Corps - UK
Helping coordinate relief supplies donated in Britain in conjunction with the Disasters Emergency Committee. International Rescue Committee (IRC) - USA
In Indonesia's Aceh province, IRC specialist mobile teams are engaged in medical treatment, child protection and counselling, measles vaccination and constructing emergency sanitation facilities. Also bringing in water, cleaning and disinfecting wells and distributing medicines, food, water purification tablets, shelter material and hygiene supplies, and planning long-term education programmes.
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Providing water purification chemicals, water tanks, health kits, tents, blankets, tools and generators on Sri Lanka's Kinniyai island.
Click here to donate to this organisation Islamic Relief (IR) - UK
Planning to build emergency family latrines and has already installed latrines and purchased water storage tankers in Banda Aceh. The organisation is distributing food, drinking water, oil, disinfectants and baby milk. In Sri Lanka, IR is focusing on the Ampara district: building temporary houses; distributing hygiene kits, underwear, soap, towel, pillows, mosquito nets, clothing and special food packs for widows; focusing on livelihood security in fishing, weaving and construction; and offering a one-to-one orphan sponsorship programme.
Click here to donate to this organisation Lutheran World Relief (LRW) - USA
LWR has programmed $520,000 and has pledged millions more for short-term relief and long-term development in affected areas of India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Click here to donate to this organisation Malteser Germany (Foreign Aid Department) - Germany
Rehabilitating several health centres in the Banda Aceh region o f Lhokseumave in Indonesia and planning to provide fishing equipment and boats. In cooperation with UNICEF, vaccinating children against measles. In the Indian district of Kanya Kumari, Malteser is supporting fishermen. In Thailand, it is providing relief for a mother-child day-care centre.
Click here to donate to this organisation Medair - Switzerland
Responding in the Sri Lankan district of Ampara by training local staff to clean contaminated wells and purify water supplies. The organisation’s staff built eight latrines, drilled one water point and distributed water purification chemicals, buckets, jerry cans, soap and mosquito nets.
Click here to donate to this organisation Medical Assistance Programs (MAP) International - USA
Shipping medical supplies and other relief items in coordination with its partners for distribution in southern India, Banda Aceh and Sri Lanka. Helping vaccinate children in southern India against measles.
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The organisation has made the return of displaced people its overarching priority in Indonesia. It is planning to expand its cash-for-work programme and support informal economic opportunities such as pallet-making, brick production and scrap-metal salvaging.
Click here to donate to this organisation Merlin - UK
Planning to rebuild seven health facilities in the Sri Lankan provinces of Batticaloa and Amapara, and construct a maternity ward at Kattankudy. Merlin is also repairing other, partially damaged medical centres. It has distributed family hygiene kits and emergency delivery kits for midwives. It has provided spraying equipment and continues to improve water and sanitation facilities and hygiene conditions in the camps. Merlin is implementing health and hygiene education and is distributing insecticide-treated bed nets.
Click here to donate to this organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - International
Planning to help Burmese migrants to get better access to health care in Thailand, where it supplied several hospitals with medical material in the Phang Nai province. In southern India, MSF is starting psychosocial support. The organisation’s efforts in Aceh and Sri Lanka focus on supporting local health structures and running mobile clinics; setting up emergency water and sanitation systems, providing essential relief items and psychosocial assistance. MSF has reached its target for funds in this emergency but welcomes donations for its activities in other crises.
Click here to donate to MSF ‘s non-tsunami projects Mines Advisory Group (MAG) - UK
Click here to donate to this organisation Muslim Aid - UK
Has set up a field hospital in Aceh in Indonesia, and is working with partner NGOs in Thailand's Phuket, Phi Phi and Ranoog near the Burmese border. Also providing emergency relief to survivors in Somalia.
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Muslim Hands and its partners have set up distribution centres in Medan and Banda Aceh and continue to bury the dead, provide medical supplies to nine medical centres in Aceh. Distributing food and water to 30 small and medium refugee camps, building water purification units in Aceh province, and identifying and assisting orphans in the area. In the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Muslim Hands has provided medical and food aid, and set up a temporary school and a relief camp.
Click here to donate to this organisation Norwegian Church Aid - Norway
Providing tents, water and sanitation equipment, and and emergency ration packs which will be distributed through Church World Service in Indonesia. Sent six water engineers to Meulaboh. In India, local partner CASA is working on behalf of NCA in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Kerala and Andra Pradesh, providing warm food, dry ration kits with rice, lentils, cooking oil and other essentials and building semi-permanent housing. In Sri Lanka, NCA is setting up temporary housing and is doing assessments in Somalia.
Click here to donate to this organisation Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) - Norway
NPA has had mine programmes in the Vanni district of Sri Lanka since 2002. After providing food, now providing electricity and building latrines in camps for the homeless.
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Providing funds and emergency supplies such as food hygiene kits and water purification equipment to partners in Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.
Click here to donate to this organisation Oxfam International
In Indonesia, Oxfam is providing sanitation services and distributing household and hygiene kits in camps. It is offering cash-for-work schemes in Aceh Besar and Meulaboh and planning to build housese in Lampaya and temporary shelters in Leupung. In India, some of its projects include organising cash-for-work programmes in the Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts, repairing boats in Pudukuppam village and assessing the needs of non-fishing groups in the Kannyakumari district. The organisation is providing water and sanitation and promoting public health in camps in Sri Lanka.
Click here to donate to this organisation Peace Winds Japan (PWJ) - Japan
PWJ's emergency relief team in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra Province, has begun delivering critical provisions to survivors in Meulaboh on the western coast of Aceh.
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Focusing on housing construction, livelihoods, education and water and sanitation needs in Sri Lanka, mainly in Hambantota district. Providing nutrition supplements to the most vulnerable children and pregnant women in Indonesia, in partnership with CARE. In the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the organisation is working with local organisations to provide children’s food, milk, vitamins, micronutrients, hygiene kits, and educational materials. Working on child care centres, rebuilding schools, teacher training in counselling and child trauma healing in Chennai, Cuddalore and Naggapattina.
Click here to donate to this organisation Première Urgence (PU) - France
Launching an emergency mission in Indonesia. Teams will set up water purification facilities, distribute food aid and build shelters.
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Initially responding with medical aid in Thailand. Accepting medical products from manufacturers as gifts-in-kind.
Click here to donate to this organisation Relief International - USA
RI’s emergency team set up mobile emergency clinics in the town of Ulle, Sri Lanka. The organisation is planning long-term rehabilitation programmes over the next three to five years.
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In Sri Lanka, Save the Children distributed food, medical supplies, cooking utensils, water purification tablets and hygiene items in Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Matara, Galle, Jaffna, Ampara, Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi; registered separated children and providing play activities and counselling in Batticaloa, Ampara and Kilinochchi; carried out a livelihood assessment in Galle, Matara, Ampara and Batticaloa.and participated in a health assessment in Ampara. The organisation sent tarpaulins, tents, cooking utensils, plastic sheeting, children’s clothing and mosquito nets, trucks and satellite phones to Indonesia. Set up mobile health units in Aceh and is coordinating the working group on separated children. Save the Children has provided emergency relief in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, and plans to carry out child-focused relief and emergency education activities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Planning long-term community-based interventions in psychosocial support, livelihoods, child protection, reconstruction of children’s centres, health promotion, and support to nutritional care for infants.
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Helped distribute food and other health and relief materials in Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka. Now registering separated children to reunited them with families and to get them back in structured activities and in school as quickly as possible.
Click here to donate to this organisation Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) - India
SEEDS has established three relief camps in Port Blair, in Andaman and Nicobar islands. The organisation is now moving towards the rehabilitation and reconstruction phase and is running a helpline to locate people missing from the islands.
Click here to donate to this organisation Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD)
The organisation has distributed food, built latrines, cleaned wells, helped to repair fishing boats and assessed mine threats in villages in Sri Lanka. FSD has now ceased relief operations in the Ampara district and will be resuming its regular demining activities.
Click here to donate to this organisation Tearfund – UK
Tearfund partners EFICOR, the Discipleship Centre and the Emmanuel Hospital Association are providing food, water and medical assistance for up to 40,000 families and distributing emergency relief packs in Kanniyakumari, southern India. The Emmanuel Hospital Association has sent medical staff and supplies to the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Tearfund’s partner in Sri Lanka, LEADS, is providing food, water, water purification tablets, clothes and blankets. In Indonesia, Tearfund is part of a joint operation programme with other agencies.
Click here to donate to this organisation Terre des hommes (Tdh) - Swizerland
Terre des Hommes was already present in eastern Sri Lanka, and is providing food and psychosocial support and operating eight clinics. The organisation is coordinating aid to Batticaloa.
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Has already sent health kits to the affected region. It also released grants to the local Indian organisation CASA for the distribution of food, emergency supplies and tarpaulins; a grant to the Christian Medical Association of India to deploy teams that provide health care and trauma counselling; a grant to CWS for the shipment of shelter kits to Sri Lanka; and a grant to the Methodist Church of Singapore to assist in the delivery of antibiotics.
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In Sri Lanka, providing food, water, shelter, sanitation and health care; psychosocial support to help children cope with the effects and aftermath of the tsunami; and financial support for rehabilitation and reconstruction through its local partner Butterfly Peace Garden in the eastern coastal city of Batticaloa.
Click here to donate to this organisation World Emergency Relief (WER) - UK
Through ADRA Sri Lanka, the organisation is distributing boxes of containing basic medical supplies for use in rural and mobile medical facilities.
Click here to donate to this organisation Has sent emergency relief such as food, blankets, water purification items and medicines, as well as assessment teams to Sri Lanka and Thailand. It has established supply pipelines for two local NGO partners and provided grants for NGOs on the ground in Aceh. World Emergency Relief (WER) - USA
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Preparing a long-term plan for rehabilitation and reconstruction work, focusing on shelter and restoring livelihoods.
Click here to donate to this organisation World Vision International (WVI)
Planning to work on the development of settlements, child friendly spaces, distribute essential items, playground equipment, boats, nets and maternal screening in India. In Sri Lanka, WVI will be distributing household items, repairing damaged houses and schools and providing school uniforms and other school materials in the Kalutara district. In Thailand, the organisation is planning to set up two training and service centres for counselling in Ranong and Phuket. WVI continues to build shelters and food-for-work schemes. The organisation has begun its relief activities in Indonesian town of Meulaboh and opened a child-friendly space there.
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