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Disaster
Notices
Links to some common Charity Organisations:
Cyclone and its aftermath
in Burma: Some tens of thousands have died and several hundreds of
thousands have been made homeless, without clean water. Some areas have
been cut off. The ruling Junta are just beginning to let Aid Agencies in.
There are no Rotary Clubs in
Burma. As yet there is no news of any RIBI co-ordinated effort. Clubs who
wish to contribute should consider, as usual in these circumstances,
Rotary Box Schemes and International Aid Agencies listed under Disaster
Notices page on this website - like Red Cross.
Red Cross have 15,000
volunteers in Burma. Rotary Shelter Box have been given permission to
enter the country. 200 Shelter Boxes are on their way, with four people to
help distribute them. About 1,000 more boxes are being prepared. [7 May
2008][Pictures from the BBC website]
| Bangladesh has been
hit by a cyclone. Various aid agencies are appealing for help.
Apart from Rotary's own box schemes such as Shelter Box, Aquabox
etc., Impact have a floating hospital in Bangladesh. Also, contact
details of organisations including Disaster Emergency Committee are
in the section under 'Disaster
Notices' on this website. [Nov 2007] |
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Tsunami in SE Asia
struck on the Boxing day [26 Dec 2004]. There have been updates
from RIBI / District on the main Dist 1260 home page. The machines of RI
at the international level generally
grind rather slowly at times of disaster. In the past, recommendations from the District for the
Clubs who wish to help have been fairly well established. RIBI have also
produced fact sheets on dealing with Disaster
Response.
Broadly, it is to
consider helping certain agencies like DEC (Disaster Emergency
Committee) or the aid agencies such as Red Cross, Save the Children
etc with cash as they can source what is required swiftly. In the
medium term, it is to have on-going commitments to donating various
boxes like Aquabox, Emergency Box, Shelter Box etc so that they can
be despatched from a central place when there is a disaster. The
only certainty is there are always disasters every year. Project
sheets on Aquabox, Shoebox and Shelter box are on this site, under Project
Info & Contacts. [Jan 05]
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Iain
Young of RIBI gives an update on crisis in Sudan. So far, RIBI
have probably raised the equivalent of £100,000. It is made up of
£24,720 donation from 84 clubs, about £50,000 to Shelterbox and
the remainder to various other box schemes and other aid
organisations like British Red Cross and Disaster Emergency
Committee. He thanks everyone for their efforts. Click here
for full report.
[27 Aug 04]
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Gujarat Update:
Extracts from Tarak's e-mail: " I
visited Morbi on 21st June, 2002 and had meeting with the short
listed 39 beneficiaries. .. by end of the next week we should
have final list of all the 56 beneficiaries.
.. the
name of this township would be "ROTARYGRAM" (Gram in Hindi
and Sanskrit means "town"). I also visited another
nearby site where a fertiliser manufacturing Govt. Corporation has
developed and rehabilitated villagers of Sokhada. I liked some of the
ideas because they have provided provisions to store rain water
drained from the roof. Besides they have also installed solar street
lights ( five nos) for trial.
Land
acquisition process has been initiated and within this week the govt.
engineer would come to do the plotting. Hence we are still within the
schedule for Rotarynagar Phase II ROTARYGRAM.
Lastly
I have to share Good News with you all. Our Earthquake
Rehabilitation Project has been selected for Best Public Relation
Project Award by the R.I. Our IPP Dr. Muni has received the
communication in this regard from our IPDG. [July 02]
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Congo - Goma - Volcano
disaster: Since Jan 19, this human tragedy has been unfolding. Click
here for the story and updates on how you can help and the feedback from the Charity organisations. [Jan 26, 22, 19 2002]
LEFT: A boy walks by lava which is melting the
runway at Goma airport - [From BBC]
RIGHT: Congolese boy cooks at a
refugee camp in Rwanda after fleeing Goma.
Photo by JACKY NAEGELEN. Supplied by AlertNet.org/Reuters Foundation
website for disaster relief
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Feed the Children - an
appeal and an update on their work, following Les Lee's visit to
their base in Twyford, Berkshire. Their refugee camp in Afghanistan
accommodated 350,000 people, and there were about 100 new arrivals
each day.
[10 Jan 2002]
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Afghanistan:
Progress on the assistance for refugees: 200 Aquabox 30's are ready to
be sent via Feed The Children; 50 Shelter boxes sent and a further 50
are on the way, also via Feed the Children; 125 Emergency Boxes sent,
and 200 are in stock. Please help them further if you can.
[4 Nov
2001]
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Progress in Gujarat
- Over 200 people rehoused almost entirely out of Dist 1260
contribution. Foundation stone laid for Rotarynagar (= Rotary Town),
and work has begun for 42 out of 72 houses planned with RIBI
contribution.
Several School projects are also being
supported. Leslie Robertson and Bob Shah of Luton North were there
recently. Click here for Leslie's
full report and budget plans. [16 Oct 2001]
Afghanistan -
Options to help refugees via British Red Cross, Save the Children,
Ockenden International or various Rotary box schemes (Aquabox,
Emergency Box and Shelter box). Details in the note from Les
Lee [13 Oct 2001]. A further plea for aquaboxes, costing £250 per box
[31 Oct 2001 
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New York - World Trade Center
Disaster...
How Rotarians can help....Messages from Les Lee,
and from RI [15 Sep 2001]
 
- Typhoon and Flooding in Taiwan - in the country of our GSE partners for 2001-2.
DG Mike Gardner would like clubs' contribution channeled via Les
Lee, District 1260 International Committee Chairman. Click for
details [30 Aug 2001]
Many of you may
be interested in the latest
update Leslie Robertson has received from Gujarat.
It does
seem that the situation is far from improving, even though it is no
longer headline news. [9 Aug 2001]
A Rotarynagar
(meaning a RotaryTown) emerging in Guajart? Leslie Robertson has been to
Gujarat again. For his three page summary of the present
situation, progress on the Bhaktinagar project and how Rotarians
can continue to help in other simple ways,
click
here. (10 June 2001)
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An update on the
contributions (£273,000) from various districts and Clubs appeared in
the RIBI International Newsletter. Clike
here for a one page summary. ( 2 June 2001)
Gujarat follow-up: Leslie Robertson of
Luton North will lead a proposal to rebuild a village called Bhaktinagar, supported by
RIBI. A two page summary of the proposal together with
diagrams is on this site. (16 April 2001)
A humanitarian Aid convoy to the Ukraine at Easter following recent floods. Derek McRae
from District 1040 is organising it. You can see details of
the situation and appeal. (Mar 2001)
You can
see his three page report on the situation and relief efforts. ( Mar 2001)
Access
via gujaratrebuild.org (Mar 2001)
One page message. (31 Jan 2001)
The earthquake struck on 26 Jan 2001. Our own district's
first ever rapid disater action plans were recommended within a day. Summary
of choices. (27 Jan 2001+)
was held in Tilsworth on 16 Nov 2000.
Speakers included representatives from International Rescue Corps, British Red Cross and
our own committee member Alan Cox. The theme was "Disasters". You can see Roy Lester's summary of the event. (3 Dec 00)
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