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Disasters in Brazil
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Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago, updated 7 hours, 18 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.
Rural orphanage help needed
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Posted 6 months, 1 week ago, updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Val Children's Home Care (www.valschildren.weebly.com) News:
All 30 children and Pastor Val and sister Irma are all safe, but buildings destroyed. They had a well, don't know if it is crushed by quake. They are located in Bognotte, near Gressier, near Leogane. This small orphanage ...
Available for hire Helicopters/Planes for Haiti
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Posted 6 months, 1 week ago, updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The recent devastating earthquake in Haiti is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. The magnitude of this crisis is exacerbated by an enduring legacy of poverty, political instability, and an exceptionally poor infrastructure. All of these factors combine to make a normally difficult disaster recovery operation appear seemingly
Resources for Response Teams
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Posted 6 months, 1 week ago, updated 6 months ago
I just wanted to pass along these two resources from the Pan American Health Organization.
There is a Field Manual Response Team Evaluation Form & Response Team Field Manual.
I hope these documents are helpful to you.
Current Conditions
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Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 6 months, 2 weeks ago
FLASH * FLASH * FLASH As of 0900 hrs, the Haitian embassy reports that most communications into the country are still down. However, preliminary reports are that Port-au-Prince has sustained extremely heavy damages. Most buildings have suffered damage with many collapsing. Death toll is unavailable but
International Disaster Response Network
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Posted 9 months, 1 week ago, updated 9 months ago
The International Disaster Response Network is a disaster response arm of the Starfish Community. The network is made up of starfish community members from around the world that want to work together to prepare for and respond to disasters both at home and abroad. Documents explaining the IDRN
Embedded "Journalists" in Disaster Response Teams?
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Posted 10 months, 1 week ago, updated 9 months, 3 weeks ago
I've been engaged recently with a question of how to best train and support the equivalent of an "embedded reporter" as part of a disaster response team.
The goal is to have someone specifically tasked with providing the outside world real-time and insightful view and better understanding of what ...
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