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Please Help Earthquake Victims in Nepal!
Sofort habe ich mein Wohltätigkeitspartner, Matt Capobiano vom GlobalMedics kontaktiert und wir begannen unsere Notfallrettungsarbeit und Erleichterung in Kathmandu. Effektiv haben wir innerhalb von 24 Stunden ein Team entsandt, um dort sauberes Wasser an die große Bevölkerungsmasse zu verteilen, die in den Erdbebengebieten gestrandet sind, denen es keinen Zugang zum sauberen Wasser gewährleistet werden konnten. Die erste Phase in unserer Hilfsaktion besteht darin, Leben zu retten!
Meine große Dankbarkeit geht an alle Hilfskräften
Thầy Hằng trường
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1. Situational Analysis
A massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on the morning of April 25, causing tremors that reached as far as northern India and Pakistan. Lamjung District has experienced the greatest damage, affecting both rural communities as well as the most densely populated cities of greater Kathmandu and Pokhara. Furthermore, 16 aftershocks ranking at level 5 on the Richter scale followed the initial disaster. Landslides and avalanches have been triggered as a result, causing deaths and devastating damage to infrastructure. Over 5,000 are reported killed and death tolls are increasing every hour. Hospitals in Kathmandu are over exhausted, running short of space and essential medical supplies. Reports of healthcare workers treating patients in the street have been reported. The majority of the population is remaining outside of their homes due to fears of aftershocks and structural damage to buildings. Detailed information on the impact in remote areas is still not accessible. The local government has called a state of emergency - the greatest humanitarian needs including clean water, supplies and tenting to support hospitals, hygiene kits, non-food items, as well as search and rescue and rubble removal.
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2. Project Description
• Deliver 400 Rainfresh household water purification units to families in need to help them remain healthy and transition through the emergency phase of the disaster and the early recovery phase. • Install 15 point of use water purification systems in schools, clinics, churches, community centres and hospitals to provide clean drinking water to vulnerable populations that have been affected by the earthquake. GlobalMedic has deployed members of its Rapid Response Team based in Pune, India to Nepal and has several local partners on the ground. During this phase of the emergency response mission, GlobalMedic will deploy a ‘push’ methodology to fill a humanitarian supply chain with humanitarian aid items that have been proven as needed and effective. This evidence based approach of providing needed supplies early will help to save lives and avoid shortages in the delivery and availability of aid items. Simultaneously during this ‘push’ phase of sending aid, GlobalMedic teams will be conducting needs assessments, coordinating within the cluster system, establishing logistics bases and warehousing and beginning planning in order to effectively deliver that aid. GlobalMedic teams will deliver aid, applying the humanitarian principles and ensuring SPHERE standards are upheld. GlobalMedic will deploy WASH experts to the field. GlobalMedic will procure and deliver 400 Rainfresh household water purification units. These Rainfresh units will provide a point of use solution for families to treat, purify and store water. They are not the conventional emergency kits used by aid agencies. Rather, we will use units designed to last 8-12 months to help families get through both the emergency phase and early recovery phase of the crisis. Providing water units at the household level through a point of use system is an effective support for families affected by the earthquake. It prevents the vulnerable population from being afflicted by water borne disease. GlobalMedic has provided household water purification kits to over 20,000 families in the past 4 years. There is strong evidence and reports to show that this form of practice is more beneficial and cost effective than providing a short-term emergency water kit. WASH promotion teams will be hired to support distributions of this WASH related aid. Training sessions will be held for beneficiary families and the teams will deliver WASH programming messages. GlobalMedic WASH experts will also install 50 point of source water purification units, called AP700 Ultrafiltration Membrane Units, in areas where affected families will seek refuge. Experience has shown us that families shelter in schools, places of worship and community centres, and these areas will be targeted for installation as a result. In addition, we’ll install these purification units in hospitals, clinics and other areas where affected families will gather their water. This point of source program complements the point of use program. Overall, GlobalMedic will deliver a comprehensive WASH response that includes point of use purification units and point of source purification units. GlobalMedicOperations All of GlobalMedic’s operational costs are being covered by other grants (such as flights, accommodations, in country transportation etc.). This allows 100% of CSS’s funding to go into the procurement and delivery of relief items.
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3. Organizational Experience/Capacity
GlobalMedic is an operational arm of the David McAntony Gibson Foundation (DMGF). DMGF is a registered Canadian charity that runs capacity building programs in post conflict nations and provides disaster relief services to large-scale catastrophes around the world. Our team is staffed by professional Canadian rescuers - specifically paramedics, police officers, nurses, doctors and firefighters - who volunteer their time and skills to help those in need around the world. Together, they form three designated units: a Rescue Unit designed to save victims of structural collapse; a Water Purification Unit designed to provide clean drinking water to victims; and an Emergency Medical Unit that uses inflatable field hospitals to restore medical infrastructure and provide care to the affected population. GlobalMedic has implemented over 90 successful disaster responses; these have included responses to previous disease outbreaks in West Africa; drought and famine in the Horn of Africa; complex emergencies in Lebanon, Pakistan and Gaza; tsunamis in Sri Lanka, the Solomon Islands and Japan; earthquakes in Haiti, Indonesia, Peru, China and Pakistan; hurricanes in Guatemala; typhoons in the Philippines; floods in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mexico, and Indonesia; tropical storms in the Dominican Republic; and cyclones in Burma (Myanmar). GlobalMedic ensures that its disaster response efforts provide assistance in a non-discriminatory way that considers the needs of the most vulnerable groups of society, including pregnant/lactating women, children under five, the elderly and people with disabilities. In addition, GlobalMedic adheres to the Code of Conduct ffor International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief and follows Sphere Standards for Humanitarian Response in its operational programming.
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4. Coordination
GlobalMedic’s India Country Office, in addition to its Canadian Rapid Response Team, will be providing aid for this response. Additionally, it will coordinate with all local actors including the Cluster System, NGOs, Municipal, Provincial and local actors. |
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5. Beneficiaries
Global Medic’s India Country Office and Canadian Rapid Response Team will be conducting assessments on the ground in Nepal, working with NGOs and local authorities to determine the areas with highest need to deliver this program. These needs are being confirmed on a rolling basis. Based on needs and assessment findings through the cluster coordinating systems, this program focus and direct aid towards the greatest needs including families that are most vulnerable, applying screens like female led household; displaced from the previous storm; displaced from a displacement shelter; living in a shelter; disabled children; and single parent led households. We will focus on distributions to ensure gender imbalances are avoided. GlobalMedic has adopted a methodology of selecting beneficiaries to receive humanitarian aid that is in line with good humanitarian donorship guidelines. GlobalMedic recognizes that principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence must be maintained. These principles provide the foundations for humanitarian action. They are central to establishing and maintaining access to affected people, whether in a natural disaster or a complex emergency. The implementation of these principles governs GlobalMedic codes of conduct. We seek to deliver aid where it is needed most and seek to fill gaps identified through co-ordination and to avoid duplication of aid efforts and services. All beneficiaries will be chosen based on needs assessments conducted by GlobalMedic. Beneficiaries will be included in the delivery of this program and will be consulted throughout the process of delivery.
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Please make check payable to CSS and send to:
12201 Brookhurst St., Garden Grove, CA 92840.
memo: NEPAL EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
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Together we are restoring lives and nurturing hopes in the hearts of those who are desperate in waiting for our help. We really appreciate your compassion to help the victims.
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