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CWS Tsunami Recovery Update
Jan 07, 2005
Church World Service is providing family shelter kits, emergency medical supplies,
food, water, cooking utensils, CWS Blankets, Health, and School Kits, and other
essentials to survivors of the Dec. 26 tsunami--over $1,000,000 in supplies thus
far--in affected parts of Indonesia and Sri Lanka. CWS rapid response teams deployed
from Indonesia and Pakistan are assisting with distribution and ongoing needs
assessment. CWS has also provided rapid response grants to help meet emergency
needs in Indonesia and India.
In the coming months, CWS will be assisting 50,000 displaced persons in Banda
Aceh, Indonesia, with food and non-food essentials, medical and trauma recovery
care, and rehabilitation and reconstruction. CWS will be providing support to
strengthen food security and livelihood recovery by providing seeds, tools, and
fishing equipment. Special emphasis is on the needs of female-headed households;
widows; children; the elderly; unemployed families with limited means of support;
and people or families who have not yet received aid or support.
CWS Indonesia has been operational with relief and development programs in Indonesia
since 1964. CWS works through and with both faith-based and secular organizations
in the areas of disaster response, capacity building, and social development,
enhancing the access of the poorest families to basic needs. In the past two
years, CWS has assisted thousands of the most vulnerable displaced families and
conflict-affected people in Indonesia with food, shelter, water and sanitation,
non-food items such as cooking utensils, seeds and tools, and health services,
including significant work in the affected province of Aceh. CWS was able to
begin responding immediately to the needs of tsunami survivors using supplies
stockpiled in Indonesia for such needs.
Credit card contributions may be made online or by phone: 800-297-1516, ext.
222. Or, contributions may be mailed to:
Church World Service
Tsunami Recovery
P.O. Box 968
Elkhart, IN 46515
800-297-1516
For information about making CWS Health Kits and School Kits, please call the
CWS Regional Office, toll-free 1-888-297-2767.