An army of workers mobilize to reforest their dying watershed. They get paid too: people living in poor communities of the northwest Haitian Artibonite overwhelmed by the population influx following the 2010 earthquake.
“Many people ran away from the Port au Prince disaster to live in the province”, recalls Jacques Vilgar, “A community already in a very bad socio-economic situation became twice as bad.”
The center of the Rurapuk Project houses the Rurapuk Hot Lunch Program which serves a free hot lunch to 30 children and 2 elderly ladies five days a week. It also is the meeting place for Rurapuk Mothers, a women’s handicrafts collective
Children from the Sitron camp Distribution and Relocation Over the past month we have seen a shift in our emergency...
At the recent Motivation Camp in Semenyih, the Year 6 students were taught the secret of programming their subconscious minds...
Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states were lashed by torrential monsoon rains in late September 2009 which resulted in the worst...
AMURT & AMURTEL sent an emergency response team to Padang, Indonesia immediately after the earthquake in West Sumatra on 30 September 2009. After the initial emergency response period, AMURTEL identified a need for Early Childhood Development (ECD). Those children most vulnerable after a disaster of this magnitude need the structure, safety, and support an Early Childhood Program (ECD) can provide.
Abha Seva Sadan Multitherapy Charitable Health Centre (ASSMCH) located in Kashijharia village, Jharkhand State, has been offering treatment in Acupuncture, Homeopathy and Allopathy (Western medicine) since May 2005. Recently physiotherapy was added. In 2009, 11,035 patients were treated with an average of 919 patients treated per month and 44 the highest number in one day. Every year during World Nutrition Week (Sept 1-7), we organize special nutritional educational programs
On March 13, the AMURTEL team went to the Sitron camp as part of an ongoing program to help...
An earthquake and subsequent aftershocks near the city of Padang in Indonesia left 1,000 confirmed dead and several thousands...
Four typhoons hit Luzon, in the Philippines in 33 days, with a death toll of more then 1100; thousands of...



