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Disasters in Brazil
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Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago, updated 7 hours, 10 minutes 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 ...
Starfish Expo - North Africa Breakout Session
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Posted 9 months ago, updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Norm Brinkley - Session Leader
Subject Matter Experts on North African Region
Yazi
Karen Boyle
Norm Brinkley
Issues -
Water Dams that were created long ago are causing problems with the natural flow of water. Less than 7% of the people in Niger drink clean water and less than 5% have electricity ...
Need Help for Kenya Flooding - Education / Med Supplies
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Posted 2 months, 1 week ago, updated 2 months, 1 week ago
The director of the Regional Disaster Managerment Center in Kenya, Mr. Shem I. Amadi, has said the most helpful things would be education and medical response for the immediate after-affects of this disaster:
Preparation for drought following the floods.
Hygiene & Disease Prevention Curriculum
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Posted 9 months, 1 week ago, updated 2 months, 3 weeks 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.
Drinking water
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Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Hi all,
Is there any working model for desalinating brackish water into clean drinking water? The communities in many parts of Sidoarjo, Indonesia have water wells that are not fit for consumption. They have to purchase drinking water from other sources. Any disaster outbreak will diminish their survival
Haiti Update from IDRN First Responders
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Posted 3 months, 3 weeks 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.
Phone Interview Update from Haiti with David Bopp in Carrefour
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Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago, updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
HISG’s Operations Specialist, David Bopp, was recently interviewed by IDRN partner and Global Information Center Director, Matt Wallace, regarding the current IDRN work in Haiti.
This phone interview provides up-to-the-minute information regarding David’s work in the Carrefour area, west of Port-au-Prince. It also focuses on how the International ...
Haiti Update Interview with Water Missions International
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Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Brad Reed, President of Water Missions International, was recently interviewed by IDRN partner volunteer, Miriam Wallace, regarding their current work in Haiti.
This phone interview provides insight into that work, Brad's organization and the International Disaster Response Network (IDRN).
Urgent Help Needed for Carrefour Orphanage
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Posted 6 months ago, updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago
- Ministry name: Living Hope Ministries in Haiti
- Director name: Mary Jane and Andris Jolibios
Director phone (even if hard to reach right now):
Address (as mentioned) The exact location of LHM is 18degrees 32'22.39"N 72degrees 27'11.68"W, The mailing address is: B.P. 11146, RH
1/25 Orphanage Needs
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Posted 6 months ago, updated 6 months ago
This is Disaster Response from MorningStar Ministries and we are in need of trucks on the ground in Haiti to transport food, medical supplies and water to an orphanage. We are also in need of satellite phones. If you have anything available please let us know, along with a location
