Indonesia - Earthquake
ROPE has had a request for emergency assistance in Indonesia from our ROPEholder, following the earthquakes and typhoon which left communities devestated.
Our ROPEholder is providing emergency medical assistance bringing into the region medical teams to include medical doctors, a nurse and a psychologist. They have requested assistance to meet the following needs:
Air tickets
Medicines for medical treatment
Medical team needs for accommodation, food and local transport from the base to the villages
Food for the earthquake victims
Tents and mattresses
School materials for children
Materials for healing trauma work among children.
ROPE would like to send £5000.00 to support this vital work. If you are able to contribute towards this gift we and especially those suffering in Indonesia would be very grateful.
As many as 3.8 million people have now been displaced after being uprooted from their homes in areas of northern Pakistan where the national army began its offensive against the Taliban militants. ROPE sent £1000 in response to the emergency request, to help the internally displaced people.
Our ROPEholder went with a team, to distribute food items, to a city near Peshawar where 10,000 displaced people are accommodated in schools and camps. The conditions are miserable especially in the summer heat. With no means of keeping cool and with sparse water supply which is often dirty. Risk from disease is very high with many cases of diarrhoea and malaria. At some places the people have to stand in queues for hours to get food.
With the help of a local contact food was distributed amongst those families most in need
Many of the casualties in Bangladesh were reported to be children who drowned when Cyclone Aila triggered a tidal surge four-metres (13-feet) high as it made landfall on Monday.
About 430,000 people were marooned and military and civil defence teams were struggling to deliver food, water and emergency shelters.
People on remote islands have been most affected and could not be reached because of rough seas. Army helicopters are being deployed to carry food and other supplies until the seas calm.
So far it is estimated that a total of about 1.33-million people have been affected.
As well as the loss of life, tens of thousands of people lost their homes and livelihoods with scores of shrimp farms destroyed across the region. At least 50,000 bamboo and mud-built houses have been washed away by tidal water. The tidal surge of sea water means the demand for fresh drinking supplies is urgent.
People have taken shelter wherever they could. District authorities have sent army, navy and coastguard teams to rescue some of the people trapped by the water.
ROPE is sending emergency funds to alleviate suffering and to provide for immediate needs, through our ROPEholder in the area.
"It is now clearly reported that 7000 houses have been damaged so far by bomb blasts. Shells were scattered over a 3 kms radius area, in the cilivilian communities with a population of 70,000 around the Mbagala camp.
Two unexploded bombs have been found by soldiers who are searching for shells and unexploded bombs in the area. It has been reported in today's newspapers that satelite is now being used to help in bomb search.
The main cause of the blasts is not officially established, but the unconfirmed reports have been appearing in the media from opposition party leaders saying that bombs in the Mbagala depot had their time expired. It is one of the characteristics of expired bombs of this category to exploded spontaneously, if the expirary time is not checked and bombs technically destroyed as required.
We have two churches in the area, the church buildings were reduced to rubble by the impact of the blasts. Some of those affected are still unaccounted for, while others are traumatized in hospital. Very few families have received tents from the government while others have no shelters let alone food and it is raining in Dar es Salaam. 3 Primary Schools and 2 Secondary Schools have been closed following the destruction caused by bombs on school buildings.
People are in great need of Blankets, mattresses, bed sheets, food, tents, mosquito nets including everything you can imagine people essentially need in their houses in order to survive. Please, I appeal for help. The donation you will give will be used to buy essential needs. I will go in the disaster area myself, assess the situation and distribute the money to the victims under the help and guidance from our pastors in the area.
Our ROPEholder is now in the area and we very recently sent him £1000 for this emergency relief.
Pakistan is facing a humanitarian crisis of gargantuan proportions. Close to 2.5 million people are on the move, their numbers are growing by tens of thousands every day, running away from the fierce fighting in the north between the government forces and the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees says that this is the biggest in-country conflict-triggered displacement of population on the planet of the last 15 years.
Many men, women and children are without proper shelter and are living under open sky. Due to very hot summer season these people are desperately looking for proper shelter as children are getting sick due to lack of facilities such as food, water and shelter. On behalf of all these Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's) we would like to request you kindly help us in our relief efforts so that we should go personally and help these families at the time when they are helpless and depended on relief assistance.
Presently there is a great need fo the following: Food Items, Personal Care Items, Washing Products, Beddings, Clothing and House Hold items.
ROPE wants to send funds to our ROPEholder in the area. If you are able to provide a gift for ROPE for the relief of internally displaced persons in Pakistan we would be very grateful.
