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MEDICAL SUPPLIES FOR PAKISTAN (January 2006)
Clear Path International is preparing two full-sized containers of surgical supplies, orthopedic devices and medical equipment for Pakistan.
They will be used for a small hospital and a clinic being rebuilt in the earthquake zone. Susila Dharma donations are paying for one container shipment.
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TIERRAVIVA PROJECT FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN – ARGENTINA (January 2006)
From Rasjid Cesar, Project Founder and Leader
It is not hard to imagine the difficulties (moreover the pain) of being a mother deprived of liberty who has to raise a child in prison. There is nothing provided for these mothers to be able to lessen the negative impacts imposed on their children being raised in captivity.
Tierraviva has been able to call attention to and awaken the interest of the City Government and UNICEF Argentina. Conversations have been actualized and are on course .An official agreement will permit that the rights of the mothers and children be guaranteed. This situation will mark a qualitative leap for Tierraviva in its functioning as an NGO because it means Tierraviva will have the opportunity to express to the government new policies for the future of mothers in prison.
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CLEAR PATH INTERNATIONAL UPDATE (January 2006)
The fighting and use of landmines/anti-personnel devices continues unabated in the conflict between the ethnic border states and government troops in Burma. This leads to hundreds, if not thousands, of limb loss injuries in the region each year. According to interviews with International Committee for the Red Cross and Handicap International, no other partnership aside from the Mae Tao clinic, ethnic Backpack Health Workers Teams, ethnic health committees and Clear Path International is addressing the growing needs.
However, the internally displaced population inside rebel-held portions of the Karen and Shan states, and a portion of the displaced refugee population outside the refugee camps in Thailand is significantly underserved. It is too dangerous and difficult for them to travel to government-controlled areas to get assistance from an ICRC prosthetics facility in Pa An or across the border to the Mae Tao Clinic in Thailand. Even if amputees are able to make the trip to Thailand, it costs them at least two months wages for an average farmer. Clear Path International and Prosthetics Research Study have introduced the Transtibial Alignment System in part with Susila Dharma USA funding to allow measurement and casting in the field, so production can take place inside Thailand for subsequent delivery back in the Karen state. This project would set up a mobile outreach team and small outpost to do patient assessments, measurement, casting and fitting. |
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HURRICANE KATRINA (January 2006)
From Bonne Ecole Elementary School, Slidell, LA
[Receives support from Susila Dharma and Subud USA] I just wanted to thank you for the goodie bag! I again emptied the contents, reflecting on the kindness of strangers who cared enough to put packages of thread and buttons together, knowing that many of us do not have the means to sew things together. You took the time out to sew the bags and tie them so brightly, even including bubbles to bring some joy to our day! I just wanted to thank you personally for caring….. taking the time when it would have been so easy to leave it to someone else to worry about. I am sure you have many other ways to fill your days, but you chose to give of yourself instead. Although people in Slidell and the surrounding New Orleans area have lost material possessions, we have gained far much more in the way of thing that cannot be lost or bought. Families have been re-united, strangers like you have become our friends, and we have seen the hand of God at work in our city. Thanks once again for thinking beyond yourself. |
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TSUNAMI RELIEF, ACEH, INDONESIA
(January 2006)
From Marmitasari, Indonesia Relief and Development Network
Teunom preschool construction near Paya Baro Bridge is progressing, to be completed by the end of this month as rain has become less and material easy to reach. For Teunom, the preschool is one of the two permanent buildings built since the tsunami (the other is the junior high school built by the German Red Cross). At the moment, they are using a long time used tent accommodating at the most 15 children while they actually have more students.
Roads haven't been touched, same with electricity. This is the main reason why the construction progress has been slow as roads were muddy during the rainy days and material has to be ordered from Meulaboh. The location of the school is in the same compound as the local mosque, at the river bank. When I asked whether it is safe they said it was the location preferred, because there are other activities centered there such as Koran readings and meetings of the informal leaders. |
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PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF
(January 2006)
What have been the results of the SDI emergency funds sent?
1. Provision of 28-gauge CGI sheets for construction of 100 cottages for equal number of families. Each family has been given 5 CGI sheets for constructing 12'x10' size cottage. It was a matter of great satisfaction that we were able to provide the affected communities of Chappar Bala and Shingri CGI sheets a few days before the first snow fall in the area.
2. Provision of plastic sheeting for 100 cottages. These have been used by the community to add additional insulation to their cottages against the elements. We have provided 1000 kgs of good quality plastic sheeting to-date.
3. Three hundred quilts were provided to equal number of families. There is need for additional quilts/blankets, and we plan to use the next installment of funds from SDI to meet the associated costs.
4. Food rations: these included flour, sugar, cooking oil and ghee, pasteurized milk packets, roasted grams and lintels. The team in the field made food packages and these were distributed to close to 200 families. |
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SEMILLAS AMOR Y FE, COLOMBIA
(January 2006)
Note: The families the Amor y Fe School serves were displaced following an earthquake and subsequent landslides last spring. The school relocated to continue to serve the children and their parents. The rent on the new building is very expensive – beyond their usual budgeted amount. A member from Susila Dharma New Zealand is providing a generous donation for a new building to be owned by Amor y Fe and SDI is raising funds to pay the rental debt.
[From Martin Fiscó, Chair, Subud Colombia] After very strong rains the poor community that the school is serving lost their huts (the hill had fallen down). They were relocated far away to houses the government constructed for them. So, the school needed to rent a new facility close to the children and their families, or, to pay for children daily transportation. Of course it is better to be close to the community, it is cheaper and easier to do logistically.
During the catastrophe and before families were relocated the school was used for lodging students and their brothers and sisters, giving them mats, bathrooms, showers, food, etc. Dorothy got help from people and from local and Colombian Red Cross agencies. The project really helped these children and their families.
This project always has their financial accounts and reports in on time, with very good management doing it almost self-sufficiently. It has been working for more than four years attending more than 80 children, and it is in a very high risk to stop their services and close its doors, and we must not permit that. So, I ask you for any support you can give to Fundación Semillas de Amor y Fe at this moment. It really needs it.
[From Marcella Moreno, Chair, Susila Dharma Colombia] I want to express to you that this is the oldest project in Colombia that was born of the necessity to serve the displaced population and it had shown improvement of the human life conditions through the love, the care and the spiritual values development. I believe in this project because it has been transparent, without personal interests, only looking for help poor people. |
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SUSILA DHARMA INDONESIA 2005 ANNUAL REPORT (January 2006)
From Ariana Susanti, SD Indonesia Chair
Following the December 2004 tsunami, Susila Dharma Indonesia received support from SDI and Susila Dharma national organizations around the world. In October, a new project in Aceh formed with the Japanese National Council of Social Welfare to set up a community center to assist humanitarian efforts. A large focus last year was in revitalizing all the Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM) projects and conducting workshops on good management systems for all social projects.
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