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Medical Response Teams need assistance in reaching Pakistan

David Bopp
33 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 23 Views
Posted 1 month ago
Assocaicao Missao Esperanca (AME) lead by Margaretha Adiwardana are planning on responding to the crisis in Pakistan. They will bring a team of Doctors, Surgeons, and Nurses to the Charsadda region of Pakistan. Currently they plan on linking up with Pak Mission Society on the ground in Pakistan to assist ...

Disasters in Brazil

Tom Jennings
8 Posts
0 Votes 3 Replies 75 Views
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 ...

Hygiene & Disease Prevention Curriculum

Patrick Selvey
4 Posts
2 Votes 5 Replies 297 Views
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago, updated 4 months ago
Grace-Connection has developed a hygiene and disease prevention "train the trainer" teaching system that is designed to empower educators who want to teach WaSH principles to the poorest people groups. This curriculum is focused on people who live in areas with unimproved or slightly improved water. Dirt floor villages.