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Disasters in Brazil
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Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago, updated 7 hours, 16 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 ...
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.
Haiti Update from Hope Extended
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Posted 5 months, 1 week ago, updated 5 months, 1 week ago
John Seaman offers an update and some comments about their recent work in Haiti. I hope this will provide others with a little more insight into what's been going on and some "Lessons Learned" for future reference.
Thanks to John and Hope Extended for their work with the IDRN ...
Triage Center - Quisqueya Christian School
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Posted 6 months, 1 week ago, updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Quisqueya Christian School at Delmas 75 in Port au Prince Haiti has set up a surgery/triage center on their school grounds. Medical supplies are needed. Please send the following:
dressings,
IVs,
syringes,
antibiotics,
surgical supplies,
insulin,
4x4 bandages,
Neosporin,
alcohol wipes,
bone setting supplies,
sutures
Send to:
S. Emile ...
Where are functional clinics and hospitals in Port au Prince?
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Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
To maximize the 30,000 pounds of medical supplies that Americares will be moving into PAP by Saturday, we are looking for intel on:
1) Ground transportation/security at airport for moving relief supplies
2) Streets or areas to avoid that are impassable by truck
3) Where are functional clinics ...
HELP International Discusses Time/Work in Haiti
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Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Don & Jean Kaye Wilson of HELP International have been key partners with the International Disaster Response Network (IDRN) from the beginning. They also where some of the first IDRN partners to make it into Haiti after the initial event.
They were interviewed a few days after their return, and their
Haiti - National Disaster Medical System
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Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The following fact sheet provides NDMS activiation information as of today Feb 3 2010.
FACT SHEET: NDMS ACTIVATION
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has activated additional components of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) to help U.S. hospitals provide care to critically ill survivors of ...
Starfish Community on the Ground in Port Au Prince
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Posted 6 months, 1 week ago, updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Colleagues,
We would like to update you on the status of the Starfish Community responding to the earthquake. A medical/communcations team arrived in Haiti yesterday and are preparing to set up their clinic in Carrefour.
Their mission is primarily medical relief, but some of their services to the community ...
Ground Report from Haiti
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Posted 6 months ago, updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Here is a report from a recent responder to Haiti
I would like to share with you some thoughts I have had on my recent stay in Haiti:
What little infrastructure that was in place before has taken a great hit in Haiti. Access to cell towers were few and ...
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
