The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, made a one day trip to visit earthquake affected Haiti. Since the January 12 earthquake, the Petionville Country Club has been transformed into one of the largest camps for displaced people in Port-au-Prince, with estimates of up to 70,000 people living there. AMURT has opened 3 Child-Friendly Spaces in the camp, serving approximately 460 children so far, and projected to serve up to 1000 within two weeks. As Ban toured through the camp, he visited one of our Child-Friendly Spaces scheduled to open the following day. Sara Wolf (Sarita), the AMURT Child Protection Coordinator, explained the educational importance of providing safe opportunities for play and self-expression for young children. She described our program which offers story-telling, art, music, karate and yoga as well as meals and nutritional support to children 4-12 years old. He enquired if the children are going to school, and she explained that as schools still closed, AMURT is providing this transitional program of 3 hours a day. He was very impressed to see how happy the children look.
So viele Spenden haben wir noch nie in einem Monat erhalten:
Für Port-au-Prince/Haiti: € 1450,00
Für Brazzaville/Kongo: € 1257,00
Für Baan Unrak/Thailand: € 8000,00
Vielen Dank für das uns entgegengebrachte Vertrauen - wir werden es nicht enttäuschen!
(=> http://www.baanunrak.org/)

Imagine Yourself standing in this sudden ocean …


There is nothing like … Nothing will change …
More than one million people have been cut off by floods in northern India from the end of August. AMURT & AMURTEL volunteers rushed to the affected area immediately and have been working out several relief camps covering the districts of Madhepura, Saharsa, Araria, Purnea, Katihar Bhagalpur and surrounding areas. The teams have distributed food and non-food items to more than 10,000 people daily and provide medical care to the most vulnerable.
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Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team (AMURT and AMURTEL) starting from 20th August is operating 10 relief camps in flood affected parts of North Bihar. Especial mention need be made of the camp operating from Majhaoa, which is setting an example of extraordinary dedication & courage for rescuing victims caught in the floods in their homes in Supaul district close to the Kosi Barrage. The volunteers in this camp have, till date, rescued over few hundred victims from the remote locations . Running a boat safely is the greatest concern in this area where the water current from the breach is very heavy. It requires 5 boatmen at anytime for bowing to combat water current.A distance of 10 kilometers takes over 12 hours.
The progress of rescuing people in this remote location is disturbing for want of a motor boat. AMURT is now planning to have its own motor boat.. The other Camps are rescuing and feeding over 8000 people on a daily basis. They propose to increase the service manifold.
The entire operation in 10 camps is being guided and supervised and actively worked with the sincere efforts of 40 Sanyasins both dadas and didis and 440 volunteers. A group of 25 volunteers from Orissa have left for Purnea for joining in this service effort. 10 Sanyasins from Kolikata have reached Araria and are organizing activities in Forbisganj and western Araria.
Namaskar,
we are glad to inform you that a batch of 30 Dadas and Didis together with other margii volunteers are already working in the flood affected area of Koshi Anchal, Bihar, India. By now they have opened more than 11 camps, supplying rice, molases, sattu, khichrii, puri, vegetable, dry vegetables, match boxes, candles, clothes etc. We have also setup medical camps!
A'carya Citsvaru'pa'nanda Avadhuta A'nanda Ma'rga Praca'raka Sam'gha (Central)
Camp: Madhumainjusha, Hehal, Ranchi-5
Namaskar!
You must be aware about the flood being caused by the Koshi River in north Bihar's Shaharsa, Madhepura, Supaul, and Araria. More than 4 millions people have been the victims of flood fury. Soon after the news of food, our workers, LFTs and Margiis started distributing dry food packets (Chira & Gur) and rescue works from 19th August 2008. A Team of 10 workers were sent to the affected area with relief materials on 22nd August 2008 from Ananda Nagar.The workers who are working day and night in flood affected area are
1.Ac. Satyeshvarananda Avadhuta ---------------------------------Madhepura
2. Ac. Sridhara Brac.--------------------------------------------Madhepura
Hier einige interessante Details zum Kosi River:
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Weitgehend unbeachtet von der Weltöffentlichkeit erleiden Hunderttausende Menschen in Nordindien eine humanitäre Katastrophe. Erschöpft, hungrig, ohne Trinkwasser, hocken sie seit Tagen auf den Dächern ihrer vom Hochwasser zerstörten Häuser, hoffen auf Hilfe.
Die Naturkatastrophen nehmen kein Ende - jetzt hat es den indischen Bundesstaat Bihar erwischt.
In den Medien wurde bereits berichtet, hier nochmals eine Zusammenfassung:
Dammbruch im Monsun
Dada Vishvarupananda writes:
Just come back from a meeting with UNICEF. The Minister of Education himself gave his approval that we can implement for UNICEF. This is the first time in history, the MoE allows a foreign organization to work on Myanmar territory! It is generally known to be the toughest of all!
Since we now can have a long term presence in Myanmar (UNICEF would like to give us more TLS temporary learning spaces), we are going to rent tomorrow a large office space (brand new, 5 rooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen in Japanese Zen design!) for 200 USD/month just two minutes by foot from all UN offices. There we can invite representatives of other NGOs and save a lot of money at the same time (it is half of what we pay for our Guest House room)!
AMURT can now be mentioned in press releases and fund-raising events as officially working in Myanmar!
Our MASS DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD ITEMS is in full swing. The food insecurity in the Delta is continuing. In spite of regular deliveries by some organizations along the main roads, there are innumerable pockets of villages that are so remote that they never received any aid.
For food distribution, AMURT operates as a wellwisher (donor) through local individuals and community groups that we know and trust. We purchase the food items (rice, pulses, cooking oil, molasse and salt) in bulk quantities which are then rationed into family-size bags. These food packages are then passed on to our trusted local friends who do the distribution. Foreigners are still not allowed to go to the cyclone-hit delta areas.

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Hello, THIS JUST IN: Our negotiations with UNICEF are looking quite positive and it seems we will get funding to create 30 temporary schools using our successful design and project formulas from the Yogyakarta earthquake.
OTHER NEWS FROM THIS WEEK: Our food distribution program continues. We have now served over 2,000 families with food for a week. The villages in the delta where we worked in the last week were in the Dedaye district in the Irrawaddy Delta. On the resources site there are some photos from the village of A Kai.
We created a second team that started to do asessments on Child Friendly Spaces. These teams go village to village to identify young children, orphans, single mothers and pregnant mothers that need support. There are some pictures of those as well on the resources site photo gallery. Our main donor the German child protection agency KNH is interested to fund these efforts.

AMURT and AMURTEL volunteers have been active since the cyclone hit on May 3 doing relief work. After the initial chaos we started assessments with funds that we were able to get in right away. We found many villages completely neglected and thousands of rotting corpses everywhere.
Namaskar dear all,
You may have followed the News reports over the last two weeks. The working conditions are extremely difficult due to the restrictions imposed by the Burmese military government. The International NGO community is waiting in the start holes waiting for the necessary permissions to implement their relief activities.
In spite of all these obstacles, AMURT has been able to organize massive food distributions in the affected Delta area!
Mayanmar (Burma) was hit hard by cyclone Nargis on May 3. It is the worst natural disaster in East Asia since the tsunami of 2004. Most of the 38,500 confirmed deaths occurred in the southern Irrawaddy river delta region. Unofficial estimates put the deaths at 128.000+. The majority of people were killed by a tidal surge 12 ft (3.5m) high. Approximately 2,5 million people who have been affected with many loosing their homes. The old capital Rangoon is without electricity and has received enormous damage to its infrastructure. Most of the survivors, who still did not receive any or only limited aid, are now threatened with disease. AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) is now at work in Burma.
Sonntag, 18 Mai 2008:
Ich erfahre gerade, dass Dada Nirmalkrsnananda seit vorgestern in Rangoon (Myanmar) ist. Noch am selben Tag hat er damit begonnen, unsere Hilfsleistungen mit den anderen, vor Ort operierenden Organisationen zu koordinieren. Da die Regierung es den Ausländern nicht erlaubt in das Katastrophengebiet zu reisen, wird unsere Hilfe über einheimische Kräfte weitergeleitet werden müssen.
Die Bankverbindungen sind geklärt, wir benutzen die schon für Bandha Acet eingespielten Facilities.
Die Lage in Myanmar scheint noch schlimmer als 2004 in Banda Aceh zu sein. Dada Nirmalkrsnananda war vor einer Woche in Bangkok, kam dann nach Kuala Lumpur und versucht jetzt nach Myanmar zu reisen. Ich habe mit der Kindernothilfe in Duisburg telefoniert, sie werden ihn erneut finanziell unterstützen; der erste Teilbetrag ist sogar schon angewiesen worden.

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