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Tagged: Transition and Recovery
Disasters in Brazil
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Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago, updated 7 hours, 11 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 ...
Disaster Response through the Community
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Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Another part of HISG's interview with Junior Bataille, one of the key players in our Haiti Relief Effort.
Caution from Haiti
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Posted 5 months ago
In this interview, Junior Bataille points out that the reason there are so many people in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, is because there is so little opportunity anywhere else in the country. He goes on to encourage NGOs invest resources in the entire country, and not just on rebuilding the capital
Stories from Haiti
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Posted 5 months ago
Here is Junior Bataille talking about where he was when the earthquake first hit, and what it means for his country. Junior has been a key relationship for a lot of the Starfish Community teams that went to Haiti.
Junior definitely has a vision for rebuilding his country. I'd
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
Community Restoration
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Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
In the interview below, Jim Yost talks about his experience with adopting a community outside of Padang after the earthquakes that took place in Indonesia during the fall of 2009.
His goal was to not just go in and help as many people as he could, but to see a
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.
Haiti Business Opportunities
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Posted 6 months, 1 week ago, updated 6 months ago
It's not too early to start thinking about long-term recovery and long-term reconstruction efforts in Haiti. Obviously the timeframe for this is YEARS, however we should all start thinking about getting this country back up on its feet from a sustainable business standpoint. These efforts are already underway to ...
Business vs. Charity
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Posted 6 months, 1 week ago, updated 6 months, 1 week ago
Now that the Haiti government has declared that it is time for recovery and reconstruction, I want to encourage all NGOs and private sector business people to consider how the Private Sector can make a sustainable impact for Haiti!
I say emphatically that it is not a business vs. charity ...
Will there be Civilian Flights into PAP Airport?
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Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 6 months, 1 week ago
There is no indication commercial flights will resume to Port of Prince. The airport is open to humanitarian flights only.
Cap Hatien airport (80 miles from Port of Prince) is open to all air traffic.
This information is provided by the FAA.
Getting a landing time would be the challenge ...
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