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Global Changing Challenges Conference

Victor
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Posted 3 months ago, updated 3 months ago
Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia from 3rd & 4th April. The goal of this conference is to introduce fundamentals of Community Based Disaster Management(CBDM) as an integrated network system, and how its resources and capabilities can be networked together for all hazards on a Global Scale. http://web.hishand.org/news ...

GDX III Invite

David Bopp
35 Posts
1 Vote 4 Replies 1112 Views
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago, updated 1 year, 6 months ago
.Greetings International Disaster Response Network (IDRN) Partner! We would like to extend our official invitation to participate in the upcoming GDX III coming up on the evening of October 28, 2010 (1800 to 24000 CDT - 2300 to 0500 UTC/GMT). This exercise tests private sector organisations from around the world ...

Ornamental Tropical Fish Exports from Tropical Rainforest Villages

Daron Tan
3 Posts
0 Votes 2 Replies 396 Views
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago, updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Hello, We are working in partnership with various groups interested in the rural development through sustainable ornamental fish exports from Borneo. We are also seeking to develop high value commercial fish farming intergrating villagers and natural resources of unspoilt locations. Our area of specialty is endemic ornamental flora and fauna ...

Impact of the Starfish Community

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Kyle Adams
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0 Votes 0 Replies 286 Views
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Here is an example of how the Starfish Community is transforming lives by taking drug dealers, drug addicts, and prostitutes off the streets and giving them a sense of purpose and belonging. These young people are in poverty, for sure, but more than that, they are often viewed as lost ...

Drinking water

Alfred Chor
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0 Votes 0 Replies 364 Views
Posted 2 years, 1 month 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

From Response to Recovery

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Kyle Adams
76 Posts
0 Votes 0 Replies 219 Views
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago
Following the two earthquakes that hit Padang, Indonesia, HISG worked with Jim Yost to fully immerse in one community, and help it recover in as many aspects as we could. This is a bit different than the instinctive desire to help as many people as possible, but in this

Community Restoration

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Debbie Rankin
26 Posts
1 Vote 0 Replies 320 Views
Posted 2 years, 3 months 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

Tech Communications in Padang?

Matt Wallace
76 Posts
0 Votes 4 Replies 362 Views
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago, updated 2 years, 5 months ago
After seeing a number of updates from around Padang and the response to the earthquakes from 2 weeks ago, there has been little definitive news regarding any extra communications that may have been brought into the area by the responders. It is possible there was not anything extra brought in ...

Let's Save One

Kyle Adams
76 Posts
2 Votes 1 Reply 288 Views
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago, updated 2 years, 5 months ago
The Starfish Community is about to lose a key young husband and wife team working in Indonesia. The wife has battled liver cancer for four years, and her doctors fear that without immediate treatment, she will not make it. The couple has been forced to put their work on hold

Opportunities in Southeast Asia

Blake H
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2 Votes 1 Reply 370 Views
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago, updated 2 years, 6 months ago
Indonesia Prostitution restoration- $500 to pay off debt of prostitute; skill training for women coming out of prostitution ($1500 for setting up cottage industry) Vision Centers- set up a internet cafe which provides computer training, English classes, home school co-op, etc. Cost $8,000 Papua- Arts and Sports. Raise up ...