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IDRN Personnel in Pakistan
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We've received initial information that David Bopp has arrived in Pakistan. Also, an interview with Betsy Brown is available on the HISG website. All three of the interviews with her are linked, including the Sept 2nd interview where she tells me about her experience in the field working in ...
Betsy Brown Interview - Response to Flooding in Pakistan
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Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago, updated 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Please take the time to listen to this interview with Betsy Brown. She is currently volunteering her services in Pakistan as apart of the flood relief network.
Starfish Community Youtube Page (Betsy Brown Interview part 1)
Also see this link for ways you can contribute to the relief:
Project Rescue ...
Project: Rescue Pakistan
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Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago, updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
HISG and our partners in the IDRN has prepared a comprehensive response that has the potential to reach thousands of people. If you would like to learn more about this life-saving effort, please download and read the attached Project: Rescue Pakistan file. This document is a call to
Audio Interview - David Bopp (IDRN Pakistan)
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Posted 1 month ago, updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
David Bopp Interview Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95qd1Z8i-kE
David Bopp - HISG Disaster Response Coordinator, speaks on the current situation in Pakistan and the various ways to help.
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VECC
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Posted 1 month ago, updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The VECC on IDRN.info is being updated for access to the information on Pakistan. If there are any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me via email
UPDATE - PAKISTAN FLOODING IS GETTING WORSE
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Posted 1 month ago
The need for help is quickly increasing...
This is by far the worst natural disaster to ever affect Pakistan and it is far from over.
The intensity of the current flooding will NOT be fully reached nor peak until August 10-11.
As of now 14 million people have been directly ...
PAKISTAN FLOODING - IDRN ALERT SEQUENCE INITIATED
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Posted 1 month ago
To all IDRN members:
Pakistan Mission Society has requested that the IDRN Alert Sequence be initiated in response to recent flooding in Pakistan
Please see the attached event report from Pakistan Mission Society for more information on this disaster.
If you or your organization are interested in participating in the ...
Disasters in Brazil
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Posted 2 months, 1 week ago, updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Friends,
I received two emails from Margaretha Adiwardana ( meiske@terra.com.br ), our IDR partner in Brazil (please see excerpts below). Any help and support that anyone can provided will be much appreciated:
We are really overloaded now with things to do, it is like two disasters at the same ...
Haiti Update from IDRN First Responders
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Posted 5 months ago
Here is an audio clip of Jean Kaye Wilson talking about her continued efforts in helping the people of Haiti. Jean Kaye and her husband Don were a part of a medical team that arrived in Haiti about a week after the earthquake and stayed for 10 days.
Haiti Sustainability - Video Interview
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Junior Bataille discusses how sustainability must be a central goal of what is done in Haiti as the country is rebuilt.
