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Women’s recovery after Nepal earthquake

Following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal AMURT has been providing skills and small enterprise training to 20 women’s groups in three communities in Sindupalchowk District. Most of the women participants are from low-income backgrounds. With AMURT’s support, the women have started enterprises ranging from liquid soap making, to tailoring, to vegetable gardening.

Disasters & Projects South Asia

Prabhat Alloi

People living in the dry rural area surrounding the village of Dabar lack the necessary infrastructural components to achieve a decent standard of living. Prabhat Alloi Inc, a partner of AMURT, has been in West Bengal since 2008 working to combat problems including inadequate water provisions, poor hygiene, lack of educational opportunities, high rates of infant and maternal mortality, shortages of housing and clothing, lack of electricity, poor roads and pathways, and frequent drought conditions causing hunger. One village in the area is home to about thirty men and women suffering from leprosy, who are largely dependent on an inconsistent flow of government supplies.

Nepal uncategorized

Tibetan Economic Self Sufficiency

Once a year, Amurtel volunteers go to Nepal to shop for our annual fundraiser, the International Boutique. It has been...

South Asia

Abha Seva Sadan – Multitherapy Charitable Health Centre

The Abha Seva Sadan Multitherapy Charitable Health Centre (ASSMCH) was started to provide quality health care and health education. Its main features will include: Holistic health care for the poor, Grassroots work in villages and Training of health car

India

Cyclone Fani, Response, Odisha, India

Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the Indian state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) since Phailin in 2013. AMURT's relief team jumped into action immediately after the storm made landfall on May 2nd, 2019. They started by clearing trees from the roads and went on to distributed food and non-food items.

South Asia

Teacher Training and Temporary Learning Centers in Nepal

The Nepali Ministry of Home Affairs confirmed a total of 488,789 houses destroyed and 267,477 damaged during the two earthquake period of April and May 2015. The death toll stand at 8,219 people and half a million buildings damaged or destroyed. In the most affected districts up to 80 % of the public schools are damaged or destroyed leaving most children out of school.. United Nations estimate 3 million people are in need of food aid. AMURT & AMURTEL volunteers are busy day and night providing basic supplies, such as essential groceries, tarpaulins and blankets, along with medical support through mobile clinics. In the first month after the earthquakes AMURT & AMURTEL has distributed food parcels to 15,300 persons, tarpaulins to 2,088 persons and 7,500 people have been treated by our medical volunteers. AMURT & AMURTEL is responding with relief teams in several locations and is appealing for donations.

Bangladesh Disaster Relief Evaluation/Monitoring

COVID-19 Surveys and Videos in Bangladesh

AMURT is supporting a Bangladesh NGO working in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox Bazar district of Bangladesh. The Rapid COVID-19 surveys was a part of the internal M&E process to understand how their COVID-19, protection and education-related messaging in the last months was received and how to improve it going forward.

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South Asia

Women’s recovery after Nepal earthquake

Prabhat Alloi

Tibetan Economic Self Sufficiency

Abha Seva Sadan – Multitherapy Charitable Health Centre

Cyclone Fani, Response, Odisha, India

Teacher Training and Temporary Learning Centers in Nepal

COVID-19 Surveys and Videos in Bangladesh

Nepal Relief

Nepal Update

Nepal Earthquake