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Church World Service Tsunami Recovery Report
The first 90
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Introduction to Church World Service
Church World Service (CWS), founded in 1946, is the relief, development, and refugee assistance ministry of 35 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations within the United States. Working in partnership with local organizations in more than 80 countries, CWS supports sustainable self-help development, meets emergency needs, aids refugees, and addresses the root causes of poverty and powerlessness. CWS provides assistance without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, or gender.
The mission statement of Church World Service is: Christians working together with partners to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice around the world. Through support including technical assistance, material aid, and cash grants, CWS supports field offices and indigenous partners with a track record of accountability, integrity, and long-term presence. CWS works to ensure positive and sustainable changes through emergency response, reconstruction, and development programs.
Church World Service in Indonesia
CWS has been working in Indonesia for over four decades and in Aceh, through partners, for several years prior to the tsunami. In response to the tsunami, CWS staff and partners have provided emergency relief in the form of food and non-food distributions, water, sanitation, shelter, trauma counseling, and healthcare. In addition, CWS supports local organizations to build capacities and prepare for and mitigate future disasters. CWS has been working in displacement camps and communities in Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, and Meulaboh. To date, CWS has distributed food, tents, blankets, health supplies, and school supplies to over 23,300 people, and continues distributions. Food distributions focus on children under five years of age and their families, as they are most at risk of malnutrition, while the CWS mobile health clinics provide health care in remote areas where there are no other facilities. Thus far, care has been provided to over 3,070 patients through the mobile clinic. In Meulaboh, CWS is focusing on water provision for 17,200 people in camps and communities where water access has been cut off. Trauma counseling services have been used by over 7,000 people, with a particular focus being placed on services to children, including play therapy and education.
The medium-term emergency program continues through 2006. In the coming months, CWS will phase out distributions, and provide holistic community support. This support will include shelter, health, sanitation, water, income generation, community organization, livelihoods assistance, and disaster management and preparedness training.
Church World Service in Sri Lanka
CWS, working through local partners, has responded in locations on the north, east, and southern coasts. Specific locations include Vanni, Mullaitivu, Batticaloa, Thirukovil, Ampara, Trinco, Muttur, Galle, Matara, Tangalle, Hambantota, Colombo, Lakutara, Wattala, and Negambo. To date, CWS has provided disaster relief supplies including food and water, tents, mats, sheets, mosquito nets, health supplies, kitchen utensils, clothing, and medicine to 14,000 families. Activities, planned to continue through 2006, include continuing distributions, providing temporary shelter and shelter repair, pastoral counseling services, educational support for children, providing assistance for livelihoods, and income generation inputs including boats, nets, engines, and other needed supplies. CWS is also working on capacity building, women’s empowerment, and disaster preparedness and mitigation with partners and local community structures.
Church World Service in India
CWS has significant experience in both emergency response and development activities in India, both through historical partnerships with local organizations, and was able to respond within days of the tsunami. CWS is providing assistance in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands through local Indian partners. To date, 50,000 people have been provided with disaster assistance including cooked food and drinking water, dry food rations, clothing, bedding and kitchen utensils, tarpaulins, and basic medical aid. CWS-supported assistance to communities transitioned quickly to include housing rehabilitation, school supplies and uniforms, fishing boats repairs and motors, food for work, cash for work, trauma counseling and pastoral care, livelihood support kits, school repairs, irrigation pumps, and agricultural supplies, as well as community organization, capacity building, and disaster preparedness. In India, activities will continue in these areas through 2006.
Church World Service in Thailand
In Thailand, the CWS response has been two-fold. First, through our local partner working primarily in Phang Nga and Krabi provinces, CWS has supplied food, water, cooking supplies, baby food, hygiene items, and other necessary assistance. Longer-term support in these areas, through 2006, will include pastoral counseling, livelihoods support such as fishing boats, nets, and vocational training, as well as educational support to children. CWS is also assisting thousands of beneficiaries and seeking out those in need who lack identity documents and are unable to access government assistance. These groups include ethnic minorities and migrants from neighboring Myanmar (Burma). The second prong of response has been through collaboration with the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington, DC. CWS donated 100 I.M.A. medicine boxes to the relief efforts of the Thai Government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Coordinating Center. The IMA medicine boxes, each able to assist a 1,000 people for approximately three months, have been donated to the Thai Red Cross where they are being used in tsunami stricken areas in the short-term, and as hospital supplies for the longer-term needs of the areas.
Church World Service in Somalia
CWS is assisting 11,200 people in Beinda Bela and Eyl districts with water, sanitation, and livelihoods programs. Our partneris assisting communities in constructing water systems, rehabilitating water intake, providing PVC piping and tools for the water committee, training the committee on bookkeeping, and supporting the construction and rehabilitation of 20 shallow wells for livestock usage. With the health committees, we are providing tools for digging and materials for the latrines, and providing technical support. For fishermen, boats, nets, hooks, and education are being provided. Our partner has been working in Somalia since 1993, and works on a variety of emergency and development programs including education, HIV/AIDS, rural water development, peacebuilding, and food security. The tsunami response program is an integrated part of the long-term work of our partner.
Financial overview
The following reflects
income and expenditures for the first three months of the tsumani recovery.
CWS continues to seek support for ongoing medium- and long-term tsunami
recovery efforts, as outlined above.
Support for CWS Tsunami Recovery Efforts
as of 3/31/05 |
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| Cash Received: | $ 8,296,787 |
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| Gifts in Kind Received: | $ 6,407,236 |
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| Total | $14,704,023 |
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| CWS expenditures as of 3/31/05 | ||
| Cash Expenditures: | $ 5,249,226 |
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| Gifts in Kind Expenditures: | $ 6,501,777 |
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| Total | $11,751,003 |
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| Expenditures by Country | ||
| India | $ 90,000 |
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| Indonesia | $ 7,055,556 |
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| Somalia | $ 237,178 |
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| Sri Lanka | $ 3,874,269 |
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| Thailand | $ 365,000 |
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| Regional Team | $ 129,000 |
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