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Ashley Jackson/American Red Cross (p-IDN1258)
Four years into the tsunami recovery
programme, the Red Cross Red Crescent
construction programmes are nearing
completion. Around 85 per cent of the
nearly 20,000 planned permanent homes in
Indonesia have been completed; another 7
per cent are under construction and the
remainder under review. Additionally,
the International Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies and its
partners built some 20,000 high-quality
transitional shelters while various
problems related to the permanent
housing were solved.
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Daniel Cima/American Red Cross (p-IDN1255)
Immediately after the disaster, the Red
Cross Red Crescent helped families find
shelter, provided access to health,
water and sanitation, recovered bodies,
cleared debris from the land and jump-
started income-generation opportunities
through cash-for-work activities.
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Bonnie Gillespie/American Red Cross (p-IDN1265)
In the earlier stages of the relief
operation, and in partnership with the
World Food Programme, nearly 5,000 tons
of iron-rich biscuits and noodles were
distributed to mothers and children to
prevent anaemia an ensure nutritional
well-being through the recovery phase.
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Ashley Jackson/American Red Cross (p-IDN1261)
To maximize health impact and
sustainability, adults and children are
also receiving hygiene education and
water and sanitation system maintenance
training.
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Ashley Jackson/American Red Cross (p-IDN1260)
In 2007, 1,700 houses were handed over
to beneficiaries. These houses were
built in the respect of the latest
earthquake resistant technologies and in
coordination with the United Nations.
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Hotli Simanjuntak/American Red Cross (p-IDN1251)
During 2007 and 2008, 63 clinics, 33
communities’ centres, 13 healthy markets
and 12 schools were handed over to the
community in collaboration with a range
of United Nations and international non-
governmental organizations partners.
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Photo: Wilda Anggraeni/American Red Cross (p-IDN1264)
Working with a range of local partners
through 2010 will help to jump-start the
economic activity and will provide
sustainable livelihoods opportunities to
affected men and women across all the
tsunami-affected districts of Aceh.
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Daniel Cima/American Red Cross (p-IDN1256)
After more than four years of
persistence and hard work in Aceh and
Nias, the International Red Cross and
Red Crescent Movement has largely
fulfilled its commitment to restore
almost all walks of life in cooperation
with other humanitarian actors under the
leadership of the Indonesian government.
We can now again see families,
communities and societies as a whole in
Aceh and Nias, having been able to
return to their normal lives.
Red Cross Red Crescent programmes will
continue to support communities to
rebuild their own lives and develop so
they can cope with future threats:
disasters, the effects of climate change,
outbreaks of disease, conflict or rapid
rises in the cost of food and fuel.
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