Cologne. Malteser International provides initial financial means of 20,000 Euros for emergency relief measures for the survivors of the heavy earthquakes in Sumatra. The people are in urgent need of emergency shelter, food, clean drinking water und first medical aid. Two Malteser International experts are on their way to Padang in order to assess the needs and prepare immediate humanitarian aid. A four-headed team (medical doctor, nurse, physiotherapist and logistician) of a local partner organisation of Malteser International has left for Padang with relief goods - blankets, tarpaulins, hygiene kits and medicine - in order to distribute them on the ground and to provide first aid and mobile medical treatment. - Malteser International has been working in Indonesia already since the tsunami in 2004 and also provided emergency relief after the heavy earthquake on Java in May 2006.
Malteser International provides further 20,000 Euros for emergency relief in Vietnam after typhoon Ketsana has caused large devastations and severe flooding all over Central Vietnam. People have lost their houses, their belongings and their crops; their cows, pigs and poultry died in the floods. Water supply, roads and the communication system have been damaged. Also the two provinces where Malteser International has been working already since 1996 have been severely hit. The local Malteser International team is preparing the distribution of food items like rice and oil, of blankets, mosquito nets, hygiene kits and corrugated iron sheets.
In order to provide further relief to the people in need, Malteser International is in urgent need of support. - Join our network of relief and donate:
Donation Account 2020122;
Pax-Bank Köln, von-Werth-Str. 25-27, D-50670 Köln, Germany,
Sort Code: 370 60 193; IBAN : DE93 3706 0193 0002 0201 22; BIC: GENODED1PAX
Reference : "Natural disasters South-East Asia"
Or online:
http://www.malteser-spenden.de/spenden.html?&v=6098&z=1&l=2
Malteser International is the worldwide relief agency of the Sovereign Order of Malta for humanitarian aid. The organisation provides aid in about 200 projects in more than 20 countries without distinction of religion, race or political persuasion. Christian values and the humanitarian principles of impartiality and independence are the foundation of its work.
For further information:
www.malteser-international.org and www.orderofmalta.org
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A medical team carries the body of an earthquake victim to a hospital in Padang, West Sumatra province October 1, 2009. Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to reach scores of people ...
