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Church World Service Emergency Response Update: Tsunami Recovery
Jan. 14, 2005
SITUATION: An update of the Church World Service tsunami response in Indonesia.
++ Two Acehnese psychologists have joined the CWS sychosocial mental health team responding to the disaster. The team has conducted trauma counseling and has established a support group in Tanjung Deai. A community meeting was held this week with residents in Tanjung Selamat regarding the need for a support group. Person-to-person counseling continues as the team works from a mobile clinic.
++ The medical team reports an influx of patients at the local hospitals and a need for additional medical supplies. Medication for chronic illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure are in short supply.
++A CWS airlift shipment of 100 IMA Medicine Boxes for Indonesia is expected to arrive in Indonesia from the United States within several days. Each Medicine Box contains drugs and medical products to treat common illnesses of 1,000 adults and children for about three months; together the 100 Medicine Boxes will provide medicines for 100,000 people for about three months.
This airlift also includes 42,000 rice and soy packaged meals, as well as 1,512 relief kits from the Mennonite Central Committee. The kits include personal hygiene items. The total value of the airlift shipment -- Medicine Boxes, food and relief kits is $424,680.
Contributions to support CWS Tsunami Recovery efforts may be sent to
your denomination or directly to:
Church World Service
Tsunami Recovery (Acct. #6970)
P.O. Box 968
Elkhart, IN 46515
Contributions may also be made online by
credit card or by calling: (800) 297-1516, ext. 222.