Mengharukan sekali penderitaan disatu pihak dan kedermawanan dilain pihak. Seorang kawan mengabarkan bahwa ATM BCA di Jakarta sampai macet saking penuhnya arus bantuan ke Aceh, tanpa memandang lagi agama politik dan kesukuan. Di CNN ada truck driver yang menelpon Save the Children Fund menawarkan bagaimana cara dia dapat memberi bantuan ke Aceh. Ada baiknya kotak amal untuk Aceh disediakan di hotel-hotel tempat orang merayakan Old & New malam ini.
Salam, RM ------------------------------- Save the Children�s Response to the Catastrophe in Southeast Asia: Mobilizing Lifesaving Relief for Children and Families Foto dengan caption: An Acehnese girl cries with her mother near the ruins of their house in Banda Aceh, December 29, 2004. Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Wednesday the death toll from the weekend quake and tsunami had reached as high as 40, 000 people. He said an estimated five percent of the 300,000 population of the Aceh's provincial capital, Banda Aceh, had died. REUTERS/ Beawiharta, courtesy www.alertnet.org Berita: At 7:58 a.m. local time on Sunday, December 26, five miles below the seabed in the Bay of Bengal, the earth began to convulse. Within moments, the largest earthquake in 40 years had spawned tsunamis whose cataclysmic collisions with 10 coastal Southeastern Asia and Eastern Africa nations resulted in a loss of life currently estimated at over 50,000. Of the deaths, some one-third are believed to be children; the millions of children and adults who survived the wall of water are in dire need of essentials such as clean drinking water, food, medical assistance and temporary shelter. While their immediate physical and emotional needs will be addressed in the weeks to come through the work of Save the Children and the international relief community, local and national organizations and governments, they also face the staggering long-term prospect of rebuilding homes and the social infrastructures on which children�s and families� well-being and livelihoods depend. Save the Children�s Initial Response Save the Children has conducted programs throughout the affected region, and in eastern African nations that also felt the tsunamis� blows, for over three decades. Our presence most notably included northern Indonesia �s Aceh Province , where extensive damage was first inflicted by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and, four minutes later, 30-foot waves that swept nearly four miles inland. Within hours of the disaster, our local staff was mobilizing to conduct on-ground assessments and set in motion the logistics of procuring and delivering relief to children and families � in many instances putting aside their own personal losses to initiate lifesaving responses for others. Save the Children also dispatched several international staff experts in child-focused relief who remain on the scene assisting in assessments and logistics. This work was initially funded by Save the Children�s innovative Halaby-Murphy Revolving Emergency Fund, and now by the organization�s donors, who are reacting with extraordinary generosity to its appeal for gifts to the $10 million Asia Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Fund. These pooled funds are supporting and will help strengthen our commitment to rapidly expand lifesaving relief to reach the maximum number of children and families possible, provide them with shelter, food and clean water and access to medical care, including protecting vulnerable children from debilitating yet preventable diseases such as diarrhea. Save the Children also is poised to use the Fund to initiate activities that define our unique and widely recognized long-term responses to children in emergencies � their protection and recovery of their physical and emotional health and well-being. Indonesia � A small convoy of Save the Children vehicles carrying ready-to-eat food for children under age 5, fuel and other supplies was enroute to the regional capital of Banda Aceh, on the devastated northwest coast, on December 29. Save the Children has maintained a presence in Aceh Province since 1976; our regional office in the city was damaged but is serving as our base for rapid responses. In Banda Aceh, our midwife training center, the centerpiece of our training program in newborn health, was destroyed and 10 women midwives lost. Another 20 women who had been participants in a microfinance program organized by our staff also perished when the tsunami struck during their weekly meeting. Save the Children is now preparing first-aid kits for some 950 midwives in five of the hardest-hit districts; is also assembling kits of non-food items, such as jerry cans, floor mats, and plastic sheeting for temporary shelter for distribution; and is organizing food distributions for a projected 10,000 families. Sri Lanka � Save the Children is collaborating with a colleague member of the International Save the Children Alliance, Save the Children/United Kingdom, in conducting assessments of children�s needs and organizing relief in coastal communities in six districts. Relief has already been launched: trucks loaded with food and non-food items are delivering them to families in two districts. We also are delivering soap and hygiene items. Some 37,000 families are being targeted for a larger-scale distribution of food and supplies. A team of staff also is organizing child protection activities that will focus in part in helping safeguard children from the many landmines that have been dislodged by the flooding; these insidious devices have been sown throughout years of conflict here. Children also are at risk because signs warning of mined areas have disappeared. India � While the tsunamis killed over 4,000 people along India �s coast, the nation has not yet invited external support for its relief efforts. A Save the Children team was in the coastal Madras region assessing conditions immediately after the disaster. Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand � Although these coastal nations also were impacted by tsunamis, Save the Children�s field offices in Bangladesh and Myanmar reported that damage and loss of life were minimal and that local organizations are responding adequately at this time. In Thailand , the damage and losses of life were more significant, and Save the Children conducted an assessment in and near Phuket. However, based on the effectiveness of the government�s own effort, Save the Children is not conducting relief at this time. We also have monitored conditions in Somalia in eastern Africa , where damage and loss of life was minimal, and will not be conducting relief programs. 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