Emergency Relief

We have received the following report from our partner organization, AMURT (Italy):

Earthquake in Abruzzo - Let us rebuild a school in L'Aquila - "Scuola Elementary di Pettino di L'Aquila"!

We have started fund raising to rebuild an elementary school in the area hit by the earthquake. The name of the school is "Scuola Elementare Mariele Ventre di Pettino di L'Aquila". Before the earthquake the school had 400 children. The work will start soon after the technical work.

When the initial emergency relief phase to save lives will end and the authorities will have a better idea of the situation. We will take up a project to rebuild one school in the area affected by the earthquake.

The local authorities will be consulted for a school that needs our assistance. We have previous experience in other areas affected by similar catastrophes.

We are also forming a team of psychologists to assist the people traumatized by the event.

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000001020753 intestati ad AMURT –
Causale “Terremoto Abruzzo”

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320 2958388 (Paolo)

Click below to watch a video of our partner organization, AMURT, in action during flood relief in Haiti. More videos available at www.youtube.com/amurtrelief. You can also donate now online by clicking on the buttons below the video.

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Bank Account:
Name: Foundation Emanuele Antola
Account Number:
-EURO: 0883-710303-02
-Swiss Franc (CHF): 0883-710303-01
-US Dollars (USD): 0883-710303-02-1

IBAN: CH48 0588 1071 0303 0100 0
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Several storms in the course of two weeks left the northern part of Haiti flooded affecting several hundred thousands people.

The latest cyclone front to hit Haiti has brought heavy flashfloods and mudslides submerging large urban areas with a potentially devastating long-term impact. The full scale of the disaster is hard to estimate because of the isolation of the worst hit area, however according to official radio forecasts this is one of the biggest natural calamities to hit the country in decades. During Hurricane Jean in 2004 only in Gonaives 2,500 drowned in the first day of the disaster, and this time the water level has covered the entire city of half-a-million under 9 feet of water. Our partner organization, AMURT has launched a rapid response operation which will most likely last for weeks if not months. The relief team there has been giving us updated accounts of horrific human and animal suffering, death, and destruction. See AMURT videos in Haiti at www.youtube.com/amurtrelief.

We have received the following good news from our partner organization, AMURT, who is working in Myanmar (Burma).
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G o o d N e w s R e p o r t

AMURT and AMURTEL Burma Response

Monday, 2 June 2008

Our MASS DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD ITEMS is in full swing. The food insecurity in the Delta is continuing. In spite of regular deliveries by some organizations along the main roads, there are innumerable pockets of villages that are so remote that they never received any aid.

For food distribution, AMURT operates as a wellwisher (donor) through local individuals and community groups that we know and trust. We purchase the food items (rice, pulses, cooking oil, molasse and salt) in bulk quantities which are then rationed into family-size bags.

These food packages are then passed on to our trusted local friends who do the distribution. Foreigners are still not allowed to go to the cyclone-hit delta areas.

Our priority is to tackle the villages that are logistically challenging to reach. Our distribution teams have to negotiate small side rivers within the Delta area to reach out to very poor communities. So far, we have been supplying food to the people in 4 districts townships (Kungyangon, Dedaye, Kyaiklat and Pyapon).

To date, our local distributors have transported by land and by sea approximately:

· 180 metric tons of relief items;

· to 12 communities;

· for 3,380 families, i.e. 18,000 + beneficiaries;

· at a cost of 27,000 USD.

By God’s grace, they have never had any trouble at the military check-points. The trucks travel with many security guards - 17 in total - so the question of confiscation does not arise!