notes: HAITI HEALTH CLUSTER BULLETIN #14 – PAGE 3 - 1/14/11 AMURTEL (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) Since late October, AMURTEL has been sending regular mobile medical teams targeting cholera affected areas. In November and in December, 981 and 953 villagers respectively were treated in San Michel and other areas. Approximately 60% of cases were cholera infections. -------------------------------------- CAMP CLUSTER WEBSITE: http://groups.google.com/group/cccmhaiti --------------------------------------- Haiti Earthquake Response COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF - BUILDING A NEW HAITI. AMURT-Haiti is responding to the Earthquake Disaster Relief by facilitating grassroots community building and the connection between the various actors in the field. The NGO is currently focusing on the distribution of food, shelter items, and urgently needed services to the most vulnerable communities. AMURT has begun setting up IHECs (integrated Healing and Education Centers) for children in IDP camps while training and supporting local community members in the administration of these decentralized child protection programs. We remain committed to building high quality community-based relief and development programs which help establish decentralized and sustainable development models. Please, visit our new blog site at www.haitilivesnow.com for the latest updates from our team on the ground. IMMEDIATE RESPONSE Since the first days following the earthquake AMURT-Haiti has been actively supporting its partners in the Coalition Response Haiti (CRH) through: · Daily medical clinics in refugee camps · Connecting larger partners with local communities, distributing emergency food rations and non-food items (tarps, tents, etc.) to more than 15,000 residents · Organizing local community groups and organizations in more efficient management structures able to facilitate the process of humanitarian aid · Building of 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers), training local community members in the administration of this innovative program which will benefit more than 5,000 children over a 12 month period. Early Recovery AMURT-Haiti is preparing an intervention in the area of food production, environmental public works, and urban infrastructure projects. These program will extend into the rest of the year, focusing on supporting decentralization and rural development in line with AMURT-Haiti’s long-term sustainability strategies. Please give a donation directly to the Haiti earthquake relief effort today or use the following information if you wish to make a wired transaction: ABA Routing number: 061000104 Swift code: SNTRUS3A IBAN Number: same as ABA routing number above. SunTrust Bank 1701 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 USA Account Name: Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Account Number: 1000050016954 AMURT & AMURTEL USA 2502 Lindley Terrace Rockville, MD 20850 USA info@amurt.us +1 301 738 7122 All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. AMURT is a 501(c)3 organization with the USA Federal TAX ID / EIN number 23-7164834. What's New: Posted on Monday, January 25 2010, 07:57 am Press Release AMURT & AMURTEL GIVE YOUR HEART TO HAITI COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF JANUARY 21, 2010 INITIAL RELIEF EFFORTS – FIRST RESPONSE When the earthquake struck Haiti, AMURT-Haiti’s staff members were already on the ground, both in Port-Au-Prince and in the Northwest Arbonite. During the first seven days following the disaster, AMURT & AMURTEL assisted more than 15,000 residents, providing daily mobile medical clinics, hot soup kitchens and the distribution of dry food rations. The first steps involved facilitating the transfer of food, medical services, water, and non-food items from the large aid agencies into the hands of smaller community-based groups who are best positioned to effectively facilitate distribution. Supplies arrived last Saturday on a truck overland from the Dominican Republic. The initial intervention targeted those most heavily impacted by the earthquake, providing transport of the wounded as well as supplies to hospitals, and assisting residents in the slum areas of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme. CONTINUED & ONGOING RESPONSE Community Facilitation AMURT-Haiti’s greatest strength has always been its development of and relationship with grassroots organizing and local leadership. AMURT & AMURTEL have continued facilitating this work through daily assessments of needs and capacities, holding community forums, and implementing strategies to a decision-making process that is all inclusive, systematic, and efficient. Our community facilitators have been covering the affected areas immediately surrounding our two bases, in Boudon and Delmas 31, identifying leadership structures, attempting to provide seamless coordination in ongoing food distribution programs. Once stability has been established, the next phase— at present planned to begin in 2 weeks — will be the initiation of regional coordination councils that will maintain overall communication and coordination of our community-based disaster response. The goal of this process is the reduction of inevitable coordination and communication gaps inherent in large-scale disaster response, and the preparation and implementation of a sustainable community-based recovery phase. Food AMURT & AMURTEL have already begun the first food distributions, initially prioritizing orphanages, refugee camps, slums, local charity groups and community organizations. The NGO has distributed 15 metric tons of rice, beans, canned food and oil for approximately 15,000 residents of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme, for the last 10 days of January. Medical AMURT-Haiti has been providing daily mobile clinics in the valley communities of Boudon, reaching out to the most isolated slum areas. In Delmas, AMURT & AMURTEL are working with our community-based partners providing logistical support and community facilitation, transport of medicine and patients, and providing support for the additional medical volunteers who are beginning to arrive in greater numbers. Over the next weeks, AMURT & AMURTEL will continue expanding support for their established network of community-based partners, to help ensure that supplies arrive in time, are directed to where they are most needed, and that no one remains without medical support. Ecological Sustainability Simultaneous with its emergency response, AMURT-Haiti is maintaining and strengthening its long-term focus on developing sustainable solutions for Haiti’s historically challenging problems. In this regard, in collaboration with its long-term partner Trees, Water, People, AMURT & AMURTEL is bring into Haiti more than 300 Ecological Rocket stoves, a low-cost and sustainable cooking solution using scraps of wood and branches. The stoves will be part of AMURT’s facilitation allowing local committees to manage mass canteens for the neighborhood’s most vulnerable groups – children, elderly, sick, and people with disabilities. Vulnerable Children Wellness Program AMURT-Haiti has started a child-centered wellness program focusing on vulnerable children in the areas of Delmas and Boudon. This child protection program is funded by CRS and KNH, and is establishing 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers, reaching out to more than 5,000 vulnerable children. RECOVERY AMURT & AMURTEL will continue to align both their immediate and long-term responses through the lens of the human rights-based framework of community empowerment, self-determination, and leadership capacity building. With its long-term strategic partners, AMURT has begun planning longer-term sustainable programs focusing on nurturing and reinforcing patterns of decentralization, sustainability, and local self-sufficiency and food production so critical to Haiti’s future. -> HAITI HEALTH CLUSTER BULLETIN #14 – PAGE 3 - 1/14/11 AMURTEL (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) Since late October, AMURTEL has been sending regular mobile medical teams targeting cholera affected areas. In November and in December, 981 and 953 villagers respectively were treated in San Michel and other areas. Approximately 60% of cases were cholera infections. -------------------------------------- CAMP CLUSTER WEBSITE: http://groups.google.com/group/cccmhaiti --------------------------------------- AMURT-Haiti (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) is the Haiti branch of an international humanitarian and development organization that promotes human-rights-based strategies to alleviate poverty and empower the poor through programs in the areas of Child Protection and Education, Leadership, Rural Livelihoods, Emergency Relief & Environmental Protection. Our vision is a Haiti free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realize fully her or his potential. Our mission is to strengthen the capacities of communities and individuals most affected by inequity and calamity through a participatory approach and constructive change while fostering universal values. AMURT-Haiti seeks to facilitate a dynamic process of exchange allowing for the expression of the full potentialities of each person and community through increased leadership and participation. We actively build partnerships with local committees, reinforcing their capacity to plan, realize, and manage in the long run their own projects. This accompaniment approach reveals AMURT’s philosophy of implicating the community in all phases, and working with them as equal participating partners and leaders rather than mere beneficiaries of the development process. Similarly, we pay special attention to working closely with women, children, and youth, and structure our programs so that they become actively involved in the facilitation process. AMURT-Haiti’s mission is to reinforce the capacity of communities and individuals affected by inequity and calamity to meet adequately their physical, mental, and spiritual needs. Since 1998 our long term initiatives in Haiti have always begun as rapid disaster response following calamities such as the earthquake in January 2010, addressing the very basic requirements of life such as medical care, food, shelter, and child protection. Only months within the initial response the programs transition into capacity-building initiatives such as community organization and leadership, integrated education and health care, environmental restoration, and rural livelihoods. Together with the local communities we seek to develop sustainable initiatives helping build an atmosphere of transparency and harmonious balance between economic growth, social development, environmental sustainability, individual and collective interests.

name: AMURT Haiti - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (DIST/MOBILE MEDICAL UNITS) -> AMURT Haiti (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) - (DIST/MOBILE MEDICAL UNITS)

notes: CAMP CLUSTER WEBSITE: http://groups.google.com/group/cccmhaiti --------------------------------------- Haiti Earthquake Response COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF - BUILDING A NEW HAITI. AMURT-Haiti is responding to the Earthquake Disaster Relief by facilitating grassroots community building and the connection between the various actors in the field. The NGO is currently focusing on the distribution of food, shelter items, and urgently needed services to the most vulnerable communities. AMURT has begun setting up IHECs (integrated Healing and Education Centers) for children in IDP camps while training and supporting local community members in the administration of these decentralized child protection programs. We remain committed to building high quality community-based relief and development programs which help establish decentralized and sustainable development models. Please, visit our new blog site at www.haitilivesnow.com for the latest updates from our team on the ground. IMMEDIATE RESPONSE Since the first days following the earthquake AMURT-Haiti has been actively supporting its partners in the Coalition Response Haiti (CRH) through: · Daily medical clinics in refugee camps · Connecting larger partners with local communities, distributing emergency food rations and non-food items (tarps, tents, etc.) to more than 15,000 residents · Organizing local community groups and organizations in more efficient management structures able to facilitate the process of humanitarian aid · Building of 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers), training local community members in the administration of this innovative program which will benefit more than 5,000 children over a 12 month period. Early Recovery AMURT-Haiti is preparing an intervention in the area of food production, environmental public works, and urban infrastructure projects. These program will extend into the rest of the year, focusing on supporting decentralization and rural development in line with AMURT-Haiti’s long-term sustainability strategies. Please give a donation directly to the Haiti earthquake relief effort today or use the following information if you wish to make a wired transaction: ABA Routing number: 061000104 Swift code: SNTRUS3A IBAN Number: same as ABA routing number above. SunTrust Bank 1701 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 USA Account Name: Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Account Number: 1000050016954 AMURT & AMURTEL USA 2502 Lindley Terrace Rockville, MD 20850 USA info@amurt.us +1 301 738 7122 All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. AMURT is a 501(c)3 organization with the USA Federal TAX ID / EIN number 23-7164834. What's New: Posted on Monday, January 25 2010, 07:57 am Press Release AMURT & AMURTEL GIVE YOUR HEART TO HAITI COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF JANUARY 21, 2010 INITIAL RELIEF EFFORTS – FIRST RESPONSE When the earthquake struck Haiti, AMURT-Haiti’s staff members were already on the ground, both in Port-Au-Prince and in the Northwest Arbonite. During the first seven days following the disaster, AMURT & AMURTEL assisted more than 15,000 residents, providing daily mobile medical clinics, hot soup kitchens and the distribution of dry food rations. The first steps involved facilitating the transfer of food, medical services, water, and non-food items from the large aid agencies into the hands of smaller community-based groups who are best positioned to effectively facilitate distribution. Supplies arrived last Saturday on a truck overland from the Dominican Republic. The initial intervention targeted those most heavily impacted by the earthquake, providing transport of the wounded as well as supplies to hospitals, and assisting residents in the slum areas of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme. CONTINUED & ONGOING RESPONSE Community Facilitation AMURT-Haiti’s greatest strength has always been its development of and relationship with grassroots organizing and local leadership. AMURT & AMURTEL have continued facilitating this work through daily assessments of needs and capacities, holding community forums, and implementing strategies to a decision-making process that is all inclusive, systematic, and efficient. Our community facilitators have been covering the affected areas immediately surrounding our two bases, in Boudon and Delmas 31, identifying leadership structures, attempting to provide seamless coordination in ongoing food distribution programs. Once stability has been established, the next phase— at present planned to begin in 2 weeks — will be the initiation of regional coordination councils that will maintain overall communication and coordination of our community-based disaster response. The goal of this process is the reduction of inevitable coordination and communication gaps inherent in large-scale disaster response, and the preparation and implementation of a sustainable community-based recovery phase. Food AMURT & AMURTEL have already begun the first food distributions, initially prioritizing orphanages, refugee camps, slums, local charity groups and community organizations. The NGO has distributed 15 metric tons of rice, beans, canned food and oil for approximately 15,000 residents of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme, for the last 10 days of January. Medical AMURT-Haiti has been providing daily mobile clinics in the valley communities of Boudon, reaching out to the most isolated slum areas. In Delmas, AMURT & AMURTEL are working with our community-based partners providing logistical support and community facilitation, transport of medicine and patients, and providing support for the additional medical volunteers who are beginning to arrive in greater numbers. Over the next weeks, AMURT & AMURTEL will continue expanding support for their established network of community-based partners, to help ensure that supplies arrive in time, are directed to where they are most needed, and that no one remains without medical support. Ecological Sustainability Simultaneous with its emergency response, AMURT-Haiti is maintaining and strengthening its long-term focus on developing sustainable solutions for Haiti’s historically challenging problems. In this regard, in collaboration with its long-term partner Trees, Water, People, AMURT & AMURTEL is bring into Haiti more than 300 Ecological Rocket stoves, a low-cost and sustainable cooking solution using scraps of wood and branches. The stoves will be part of AMURT’s facilitation allowing local committees to manage mass canteens for the neighborhood’s most vulnerable groups – children, elderly, sick, and people with disabilities. Vulnerable Children Wellness Program AMURT-Haiti has started a child-centered wellness program focusing on vulnerable children in the areas of Delmas and Boudon. This child protection program is funded by CRS and KNH, and is establishing 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers, reaching out to more than 5,000 vulnerable children. RECOVERY AMURT & AMURTEL will continue to align both their immediate and long-term responses through the lens of the human rights-based framework of community empowerment, self-determination, and leadership capacity building. With its long-term strategic partners, AMURT has begun planning longer-term sustainable programs focusing on nurturing and reinforcing patterns of decentralization, sustainability, and local self-sufficiency and food production so critical to Haiti’s future. -> HAITI HEALTH CLUSTER BULLETIN #14 – PAGE 3 - 1/14/11 AMURTEL (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) Since late October, AMURTEL has been sending regular mobile medical teams targeting cholera affected areas. In November and in December, 981 and 953 villagers respectively were treated in San Michel and other areas. Approximately 60% of cases were cholera infections. -------------------------------------- CAMP CLUSTER WEBSITE: http://groups.google.com/group/cccmhaiti --------------------------------------- Haiti Earthquake Response COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF - BUILDING A NEW HAITI. AMURT-Haiti is responding to the Earthquake Disaster Relief by facilitating grassroots community building and the connection between the various actors in the field. The NGO is currently focusing on the distribution of food, shelter items, and urgently needed services to the most vulnerable communities. AMURT has begun setting up IHECs (integrated Healing and Education Centers) for children in IDP camps while training and supporting local community members in the administration of these decentralized child protection programs. We remain committed to building high quality community-based relief and development programs which help establish decentralized and sustainable development models. Please, visit our new blog site at www.haitilivesnow.com for the latest updates from our team on the ground. IMMEDIATE RESPONSE Since the first days following the earthquake AMURT-Haiti has been actively supporting its partners in the Coalition Response Haiti (CRH) through: · Daily medical clinics in refugee camps · Connecting larger partners with local communities, distributing emergency food rations and non-food items (tarps, tents, etc.) to more than 15,000 residents · Organizing local community groups and organizations in more efficient management structures able to facilitate the process of humanitarian aid · Building of 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers), training local community members in the administration of this innovative program which will benefit more than 5,000 children over a 12 month period. Early Recovery AMURT-Haiti is preparing an intervention in the area of food production, environmental public works, and urban infrastructure projects. These program will extend into the rest of the year, focusing on supporting decentralization and rural development in line with AMURT-Haiti’s long-term sustainability strategies. Please give a donation directly to the Haiti earthquake relief effort today or use the following information if you wish to make a wired transaction: ABA Routing number: 061000104 Swift code: SNTRUS3A IBAN Number: same as ABA routing number above. SunTrust Bank 1701 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 USA Account Name: Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Account Number: 1000050016954 AMURT & AMURTEL USA 2502 Lindley Terrace Rockville, MD 20850 USA info@amurt.us +1 301 738 7122 All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. AMURT is a 501(c)3 organization with the USA Federal TAX ID / EIN number 23-7164834. What's New: Posted on Monday, January 25 2010, 07:57 am Press Release AMURT & AMURTEL GIVE YOUR HEART TO HAITI COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF JANUARY 21, 2010 INITIAL RELIEF EFFORTS – FIRST RESPONSE When the earthquake struck Haiti, AMURT-Haiti’s staff members were already on the ground, both in Port-Au-Prince and in the Northwest Arbonite. During the first seven days following the disaster, AMURT & AMURTEL assisted more than 15,000 residents, providing daily mobile medical clinics, hot soup kitchens and the distribution of dry food rations. The first steps involved facilitating the transfer of food, medical services, water, and non-food items from the large aid agencies into the hands of smaller community-based groups who are best positioned to effectively facilitate distribution. Supplies arrived last Saturday on a truck overland from the Dominican Republic. The initial intervention targeted those most heavily impacted by the earthquake, providing transport of the wounded as well as supplies to hospitals, and assisting residents in the slum areas of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme. CONTINUED & ONGOING RESPONSE Community Facilitation AMURT-Haiti’s greatest strength has always been its development of and relationship with grassroots organizing and local leadership. AMURT & AMURTEL have continued facilitating this work through daily assessments of needs and capacities, holding community forums, and implementing strategies to a decision-making process that is all inclusive, systematic, and efficient. Our community facilitators have been covering the affected areas immediately surrounding our two bases, in Boudon and Delmas 31, identifying leadership structures, attempting to provide seamless coordination in ongoing food distribution programs. Once stability has been established, the next phase— at present planned to begin in 2 weeks — will be the initiation of regional coordination councils that will maintain overall communication and coordination of our community-based disaster response. The goal of this process is the reduction of inevitable coordination and communication gaps inherent in large-scale disaster response, and the preparation and implementation of a sustainable community-based recovery phase. Food AMURT & AMURTEL have already begun the first food distributions, initially prioritizing orphanages, refugee camps, slums, local charity groups and community organizations. The NGO has distributed 15 metric tons of rice, beans, canned food and oil for approximately 15,000 residents of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme, for the last 10 days of January. Medical AMURT-Haiti has been providing daily mobile clinics in the valley communities of Boudon, reaching out to the most isolated slum areas. In Delmas, AMURT & AMURTEL are working with our community-based partners providing logistical support and community facilitation, transport of medicine and patients, and providing support for the additional medical volunteers who are beginning to arrive in greater numbers. Over the next weeks, AMURT & AMURTEL will continue expanding support for their established network of community-based partners, to help ensure that supplies arrive in time, are directed to where they are most needed, and that no one remains without medical support. Ecological Sustainability Simultaneous with its emergency response, AMURT-Haiti is maintaining and strengthening its long-term focus on developing sustainable solutions for Haiti’s historically challenging problems. In this regard, in collaboration with its long-term partner Trees, Water, People, AMURT & AMURTEL is bring into Haiti more than 300 Ecological Rocket stoves, a low-cost and sustainable cooking solution using scraps of wood and branches. The stoves will be part of AMURT’s facilitation allowing local committees to manage mass canteens for the neighborhood’s most vulnerable groups – children, elderly, sick, and people with disabilities. Vulnerable Children Wellness Program AMURT-Haiti has started a child-centered wellness program focusing on vulnerable children in the areas of Delmas and Boudon. This child protection program is funded by CRS and KNH, and is establishing 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers, reaching out to more than 5,000 vulnerable children. RECOVERY AMURT & AMURTEL will continue to align both their immediate and long-term responses through the lens of the human rights-based framework of community empowerment, self-determination, and leadership capacity building. With its long-term strategic partners, AMURT has begun planning longer-term sustainable programs focusing on nurturing and reinforcing patterns of decentralization, sustainability, and local self-sufficiency and food production so critical to Haiti’s future.

name: AMURT Haiti (HEALTH/SHELTER/CAMP/EDUCATION CLUSTERS) - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (DIST/MOBILE MEDICAL UNITS) -> AMURT Haiti - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (DIST/MOBILE MEDICAL UNITS)

name: AMURT Haiti (HEALTH/SHELTER/CAMP CLUSTERS) - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (DIST/MOBILE MEDICAL UNITS) -> AMURT Haiti (HEALTH/SHELTER/CAMP/EDUCATION CLUSTERS) - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (DIST/MOBILE MEDICAL UNITS)
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name: AMURT Haiti - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (DIST/MOBILE MEDICAL UNITS) -> AMURT Haiti (HEALTH/SHELTER/CAMP CLUSTERS) - 2010 Haiti Earthquake (DIST/MOBILE MEDICAL UNITS)
notes: Haiti Earthquake Response COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF - BUILDING A NEW HAITI. AMURT-Haiti is responding to the Earthquake Disaster Relief by facilitating grassroots community building and the connection between the various actors in the field. The NGO is currently focusing on the distribution of food, shelter items, and urgently needed services to the most vulnerable communities. AMURT has begun setting up IHECs (integrated Healing and Education Centers) for children in IDP camps while training and supporting local community members in the administration of these decentralized child protection programs. We remain committed to building high quality community-based relief and development programs which help establish decentralized and sustainable development models. Please, visit our new blog site at www.haitilivesnow.com for the latest updates from our team on the ground. IMMEDIATE RESPONSE Since the first days following the earthquake AMURT-Haiti has been actively supporting its partners in the Coalition Response Haiti (CRH) through: · Daily medical clinics in refugee camps · Connecting larger partners with local communities, distributing emergency food rations and non-food items (tarps, tents, etc.) to more than 15,000 residents · Organizing local community groups and organizations in more efficient management structures able to facilitate the process of humanitarian aid · Building of 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers), training local community members in the administration of this innovative program which will benefit more than 5,000 children over a 12 month period. Early Recovery AMURT-Haiti is preparing an intervention in the area of food production, environmental public works, and urban infrastructure projects. These program will extend into the rest of the year, focusing on supporting decentralization and rural development in line with AMURT-Haiti’s long-term sustainability strategies. Please give a donation directly to the Haiti earthquake relief effort today or use the following information if you wish to make a wired transaction: ABA Routing number: 061000104 Swift code: SNTRUS3A IBAN Number: same as ABA routing number above. SunTrust Bank 1701 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 USA Account Name: Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Account Number: 1000050016954 AMURT & AMURTEL USA 2502 Lindley Terrace Rockville, MD 20850 USA info@amurt.us +1 301 738 7122 All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. AMURT is a 501(c)3 organization with the USA Federal TAX ID / EIN number 23-7164834. What's New: Posted on Monday, January 25 2010, 07:57 am Press Release AMURT & AMURTEL GIVE YOUR HEART TO HAITI COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF JANUARY 21, 2010 INITIAL RELIEF EFFORTS – FIRST RESPONSE When the earthquake struck Haiti, AMURT-Haiti’s staff members were already on the ground, both in Port-Au-Prince and in the Northwest Arbonite. During the first seven days following the disaster, AMURT & AMURTEL assisted more than 15,000 residents, providing daily mobile medical clinics, hot soup kitchens and the distribution of dry food rations. The first steps involved facilitating the transfer of food, medical services, water, and non-food items from the large aid agencies into the hands of smaller community-based groups who are best positioned to effectively facilitate distribution. Supplies arrived last Saturday on a truck overland from the Dominican Republic. The initial intervention targeted those most heavily impacted by the earthquake, providing transport of the wounded as well as supplies to hospitals, and assisting residents in the slum areas of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme. CONTINUED & ONGOING RESPONSE Community Facilitation AMURT-Haiti’s greatest strength has always been its development of and relationship with grassroots organizing and local leadership. AMURT & AMURTEL have continued facilitating this work through daily assessments of needs and capacities, holding community forums, and implementing strategies to a decision-making process that is all inclusive, systematic, and efficient. Our community facilitators have been covering the affected areas immediately surrounding our two bases, in Boudon and Delmas 31, identifying leadership structures, attempting to provide seamless coordination in ongoing food distribution programs. Once stability has been established, the next phase— at present planned to begin in 2 weeks — will be the initiation of regional coordination councils that will maintain overall communication and coordination of our community-based disaster response. The goal of this process is the reduction of inevitable coordination and communication gaps inherent in large-scale disaster response, and the preparation and implementation of a sustainable community-based recovery phase. Food AMURT & AMURTEL have already begun the first food distributions, initially prioritizing orphanages, refugee camps, slums, local charity groups and community organizations. The NGO has distributed 15 metric tons of rice, beans, canned food and oil for approximately 15,000 residents of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme, for the last 10 days of January. Medical AMURT-Haiti has been providing daily mobile clinics in the valley communities of Boudon, reaching out to the most isolated slum areas. In Delmas, AMURT & AMURTEL are working with our community-based partners providing logistical support and community facilitation, transport of medicine and patients, and providing support for the additional medical volunteers who are beginning to arrive in greater numbers. Over the next weeks, AMURT & AMURTEL will continue expanding support for their established network of community-based partners, to help ensure that supplies arrive in time, are directed to where they are most needed, and that no one remains without medical support. Ecological Sustainability Simultaneous with its emergency response, AMURT-Haiti is maintaining and strengthening its long-term focus on developing sustainable solutions for Haiti’s historically challenging problems. In this regard, in collaboration with its long-term partner Trees, Water, People, AMURT & AMURTEL is bring into Haiti more than 300 Ecological Rocket stoves, a low-cost and sustainable cooking solution using scraps of wood and branches. The stoves will be part of AMURT’s facilitation allowing local committees to manage mass canteens for the neighborhood’s most vulnerable groups – children, elderly, sick, and people with disabilities. Vulnerable Children Wellness Program AMURT-Haiti has started a child-centered wellness program focusing on vulnerable children in the areas of Delmas and Boudon. This child protection program is funded by CRS and KNH, and is establishing 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers, reaching out to more than 5,000 vulnerable children. RECOVERY AMURT & AMURTEL will continue to align both their immediate and long-term responses through the lens of the human rights-based framework of community empowerment, self-determination, and leadership capacity building. With its long-term strategic partners, AMURT has begun planning longer-term sustainable programs focusing on nurturing and reinforcing patterns of decentralization, sustainability, and local self-sufficiency and food production so critical to Haiti’s future. -> CAMP CLUSTER WEBSITE: http://groups.google.com/group/cccmhaiti --------------------------------------- Haiti Earthquake Response COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF - BUILDING A NEW HAITI. AMURT-Haiti is responding to the Earthquake Disaster Relief by facilitating grassroots community building and the connection between the various actors in the field. The NGO is currently focusing on the distribution of food, shelter items, and urgently needed services to the most vulnerable communities. AMURT has begun setting up IHECs (integrated Healing and Education Centers) for children in IDP camps while training and supporting local community members in the administration of these decentralized child protection programs. We remain committed to building high quality community-based relief and development programs which help establish decentralized and sustainable development models. Please, visit our new blog site at www.haitilivesnow.com for the latest updates from our team on the ground. IMMEDIATE RESPONSE Since the first days following the earthquake AMURT-Haiti has been actively supporting its partners in the Coalition Response Haiti (CRH) through: · Daily medical clinics in refugee camps · Connecting larger partners with local communities, distributing emergency food rations and non-food items (tarps, tents, etc.) to more than 15,000 residents · Organizing local community groups and organizations in more efficient management structures able to facilitate the process of humanitarian aid · Building of 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers), training local community members in the administration of this innovative program which will benefit more than 5,000 children over a 12 month period. Early Recovery AMURT-Haiti is preparing an intervention in the area of food production, environmental public works, and urban infrastructure projects. These program will extend into the rest of the year, focusing on supporting decentralization and rural development in line with AMURT-Haiti’s long-term sustainability strategies. Please give a donation directly to the Haiti earthquake relief effort today or use the following information if you wish to make a wired transaction: ABA Routing number: 061000104 Swift code: SNTRUS3A IBAN Number: same as ABA routing number above. SunTrust Bank 1701 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 USA Account Name: Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Account Number: 1000050016954 AMURT & AMURTEL USA 2502 Lindley Terrace Rockville, MD 20850 USA info@amurt.us +1 301 738 7122 All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. AMURT is a 501(c)3 organization with the USA Federal TAX ID / EIN number 23-7164834. What's New: Posted on Monday, January 25 2010, 07:57 am Press Release AMURT & AMURTEL GIVE YOUR HEART TO HAITI COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF JANUARY 21, 2010 INITIAL RELIEF EFFORTS – FIRST RESPONSE When the earthquake struck Haiti, AMURT-Haiti’s staff members were already on the ground, both in Port-Au-Prince and in the Northwest Arbonite. During the first seven days following the disaster, AMURT & AMURTEL assisted more than 15,000 residents, providing daily mobile medical clinics, hot soup kitchens and the distribution of dry food rations. The first steps involved facilitating the transfer of food, medical services, water, and non-food items from the large aid agencies into the hands of smaller community-based groups who are best positioned to effectively facilitate distribution. Supplies arrived last Saturday on a truck overland from the Dominican Republic. The initial intervention targeted those most heavily impacted by the earthquake, providing transport of the wounded as well as supplies to hospitals, and assisting residents in the slum areas of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme. CONTINUED & ONGOING RESPONSE Community Facilitation AMURT-Haiti’s greatest strength has always been its development of and relationship with grassroots organizing and local leadership. AMURT & AMURTEL have continued facilitating this work through daily assessments of needs and capacities, holding community forums, and implementing strategies to a decision-making process that is all inclusive, systematic, and efficient. Our community facilitators have been covering the affected areas immediately surrounding our two bases, in Boudon and Delmas 31, identifying leadership structures, attempting to provide seamless coordination in ongoing food distribution programs. Once stability has been established, the next phase— at present planned to begin in 2 weeks — will be the initiation of regional coordination councils that will maintain overall communication and coordination of our community-based disaster response. The goal of this process is the reduction of inevitable coordination and communication gaps inherent in large-scale disaster response, and the preparation and implementation of a sustainable community-based recovery phase. Food AMURT & AMURTEL have already begun the first food distributions, initially prioritizing orphanages, refugee camps, slums, local charity groups and community organizations. The NGO has distributed 15 metric tons of rice, beans, canned food and oil for approximately 15,000 residents of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme, for the last 10 days of January. Medical AMURT-Haiti has been providing daily mobile clinics in the valley communities of Boudon, reaching out to the most isolated slum areas. In Delmas, AMURT & AMURTEL are working with our community-based partners providing logistical support and community facilitation, transport of medicine and patients, and providing support for the additional medical volunteers who are beginning to arrive in greater numbers. Over the next weeks, AMURT & AMURTEL will continue expanding support for their established network of community-based partners, to help ensure that supplies arrive in time, are directed to where they are most needed, and that no one remains without medical support. Ecological Sustainability Simultaneous with its emergency response, AMURT-Haiti is maintaining and strengthening its long-term focus on developing sustainable solutions for Haiti’s historically challenging problems. In this regard, in collaboration with its long-term partner Trees, Water, People, AMURT & AMURTEL is bring into Haiti more than 300 Ecological Rocket stoves, a low-cost and sustainable cooking solution using scraps of wood and branches. The stoves will be part of AMURT’s facilitation allowing local committees to manage mass canteens for the neighborhood’s most vulnerable groups – children, elderly, sick, and people with disabilities. Vulnerable Children Wellness Program AMURT-Haiti has started a child-centered wellness program focusing on vulnerable children in the areas of Delmas and Boudon. This child protection program is funded by CRS and KNH, and is establishing 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers, reaching out to more than 5,000 vulnerable children. RECOVERY AMURT & AMURTEL will continue to align both their immediate and long-term responses through the lens of the human rights-based framework of community empowerment, self-determination, and leadership capacity building. With its long-term strategic partners, AMURT has begun planning longer-term sustainable programs focusing on nurturing and reinforcing patterns of decentralization, sustainability, and local self-sufficiency and food production so critical to Haiti’s future.
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notes: -> Haiti Earthquake Response COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF - BUILDING A NEW HAITI. AMURT-Haiti is responding to the Earthquake Disaster Relief by facilitating grassroots community building and the connection between the various actors in the field. The NGO is currently focusing on the distribution of food, shelter items, and urgently needed services to the most vulnerable communities. AMURT has begun setting up IHECs (integrated Healing and Education Centers) for children in IDP camps while training and supporting local community members in the administration of these decentralized child protection programs. We remain committed to building high quality community-based relief and development programs which help establish decentralized and sustainable development models. Please, visit our new blog site at www.haitilivesnow.com for the latest updates from our team on the ground. IMMEDIATE RESPONSE Since the first days following the earthquake AMURT-Haiti has been actively supporting its partners in the Coalition Response Haiti (CRH) through: · Daily medical clinics in refugee camps · Connecting larger partners with local communities, distributing emergency food rations and non-food items (tarps, tents, etc.) to more than 15,000 residents · Organizing local community groups and organizations in more efficient management structures able to facilitate the process of humanitarian aid · Building of 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers), training local community members in the administration of this innovative program which will benefit more than 5,000 children over a 12 month period. Early Recovery AMURT-Haiti is preparing an intervention in the area of food production, environmental public works, and urban infrastructure projects. These program will extend into the rest of the year, focusing on supporting decentralization and rural development in line with AMURT-Haiti’s long-term sustainability strategies. Please give a donation directly to the Haiti earthquake relief effort today or use the following information if you wish to make a wired transaction: ABA Routing number: 061000104 Swift code: SNTRUS3A IBAN Number: same as ABA routing number above. SunTrust Bank 1701 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852 USA Account Name: Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Account Number: 1000050016954 AMURT & AMURTEL USA 2502 Lindley Terrace Rockville, MD 20850 USA info@amurt.us +1 301 738 7122 All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. AMURT is a 501(c)3 organization with the USA Federal TAX ID / EIN number 23-7164834. What's New: Posted on Monday, January 25 2010, 07:57 am Press Release AMURT & AMURTEL GIVE YOUR HEART TO HAITI COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RELIEF JANUARY 21, 2010 INITIAL RELIEF EFFORTS – FIRST RESPONSE When the earthquake struck Haiti, AMURT-Haiti’s staff members were already on the ground, both in Port-Au-Prince and in the Northwest Arbonite. During the first seven days following the disaster, AMURT & AMURTEL assisted more than 15,000 residents, providing daily mobile medical clinics, hot soup kitchens and the distribution of dry food rations. The first steps involved facilitating the transfer of food, medical services, water, and non-food items from the large aid agencies into the hands of smaller community-based groups who are best positioned to effectively facilitate distribution. Supplies arrived last Saturday on a truck overland from the Dominican Republic. The initial intervention targeted those most heavily impacted by the earthquake, providing transport of the wounded as well as supplies to hospitals, and assisting residents in the slum areas of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme. CONTINUED & ONGOING RESPONSE Community Facilitation AMURT-Haiti’s greatest strength has always been its development of and relationship with grassroots organizing and local leadership. AMURT & AMURTEL have continued facilitating this work through daily assessments of needs and capacities, holding community forums, and implementing strategies to a decision-making process that is all inclusive, systematic, and efficient. Our community facilitators have been covering the affected areas immediately surrounding our two bases, in Boudon and Delmas 31, identifying leadership structures, attempting to provide seamless coordination in ongoing food distribution programs. Once stability has been established, the next phase— at present planned to begin in 2 weeks — will be the initiation of regional coordination councils that will maintain overall communication and coordination of our community-based disaster response. The goal of this process is the reduction of inevitable coordination and communication gaps inherent in large-scale disaster response, and the preparation and implementation of a sustainable community-based recovery phase. Food AMURT & AMURTEL have already begun the first food distributions, initially prioritizing orphanages, refugee camps, slums, local charity groups and community organizations. The NGO has distributed 15 metric tons of rice, beans, canned food and oil for approximately 15,000 residents of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme, for the last 10 days of January. Medical AMURT-Haiti has been providing daily mobile clinics in the valley communities of Boudon, reaching out to the most isolated slum areas. In Delmas, AMURT & AMURTEL are working with our community-based partners providing logistical support and community facilitation, transport of medicine and patients, and providing support for the additional medical volunteers who are beginning to arrive in greater numbers. Over the next weeks, AMURT & AMURTEL will continue expanding support for their established network of community-based partners, to help ensure that supplies arrive in time, are directed to where they are most needed, and that no one remains without medical support. Ecological Sustainability Simultaneous with its emergency response, AMURT-Haiti is maintaining and strengthening its long-term focus on developing sustainable solutions for Haiti’s historically challenging problems. In this regard, in collaboration with its long-term partner Trees, Water, People, AMURT & AMURTEL is bring into Haiti more than 300 Ecological Rocket stoves, a low-cost and sustainable cooking solution using scraps of wood and branches. The stoves will be part of AMURT’s facilitation allowing local committees to manage mass canteens for the neighborhood’s most vulnerable groups – children, elderly, sick, and people with disabilities. Vulnerable Children Wellness Program AMURT-Haiti has started a child-centered wellness program focusing on vulnerable children in the areas of Delmas and Boudon. This child protection program is funded by CRS and KNH, and is establishing 10 IHECs (Integrated Healing and Education Centers, reaching out to more than 5,000 vulnerable children. RECOVERY AMURT & AMURTEL will continue to align both their immediate and long-term responses through the lens of the human rights-based framework of community empowerment, self-determination, and leadership capacity building. With its long-term strategic partners, AMURT has begun planning longer-term sustainable programs focusing on nurturing and reinforcing patterns of decentralization, sustainability, and local self-sufficiency and food production so critical to Haiti’s future.