Newsletter 2018-2
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Indonesia Disaster Appeal – 2018
Reports from our DARTS in Indonesia – Earthquake Our Disaster Aid Response Team (DART) arrived in Bali, Indonesia on Friday November 23 and was able to clear Customs after showing the Memorandum of Understanding we have with PMI (Indonesian Red Cross) and explaining the purpose of our project. Tools and some fittings for installation and…
Caribbean Hurricane Appeal
Caribbean Hurricane Appeal Since we launched our Hurricane Irma Appeal the Caribbean was threatened by Hurricane Lee and then hit by Hurricane Maria. It was for these reasons that we renamed our Hurricane Irma Appeal the Caribbean Hurricane Appeal. This allowed us to provide aid to Caribbean countries other than those specifically damaged by Hurricane…
Haiti Deployment – February 2017
Haiti Deployment – February 2017 A team of DARTs has returned to Haiti to check on the progress with our in-country partner on rebuilding homes and to distribute more water filters following the assessment visit in October 2016. There were 472 additional water filters delivered to 21 sites. The DARTs have also identified a number…
Preparing to send assessment visits to Haiti and the Bahamas
Hurricane Matthew is the first Category 4 storm to strike Haiti since 1964 and has inevitably caused incredible devastation. According to recent reports, nearly 1 ½ million people are in need of humanitarian aid, a third of which are children, with over half this number in severe need. Damage to the infrastructure, in terms of schools, hospitals…
Hurricane Matthew
The media is full of images of survivors, mainly in Haiti, following the devastating effects of Hurricane Matthew. Media reports suggest that as many people in Haiti are as badly affected by this hurricane as there were following the earthquake in 2010. Disaster Aid International is currently putting together plans to send an assessment team…