Informes

The European Commission has adopted €2 million decision to help tackle humanitarian needs in Indonesia. The funds, targeting nutrition, water and sanitation, will benefit around 130,000 vulnerable people in various provinces. The aid is managed by the Commission's Humanitarian Aid…

The Asian Tsunami -- A Retrospective One year ago, on December 26, 2004, the world was horrified as it watched the televised footage of the destruction caused by the Southeast Asian tsunami. Some 300,000 people were left dead, hundreds of…

Plan and the Tsunami: Overview of the first 12 months From relief to recovery Immediately after the tsunami in December 2004, Plan started emergency relief efforts in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia. As Plan was already operational in these countries, it…

I. Introduction On Sunday morning, 26 December 2004 at 7:59 a.m. local time, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the western coast of Sumatra. In the first 100 seconds it created a northwest-southeast rupture about 400 kilometers…

EMERGENCY APPEAL UPDATE: SOUTHEAST ASIA TSUNAMI AND EARTHQUAKE YEAR-TWO RESPONSE (2006) Appeal Number: 6970 Appeal Goal Amount: $15.23 million (This revised appeal outlines a continuation of CWS activities through 2006, year two of its response to the SE Asia Tsunami and…

In response to the Major Earthquake off the Coast of Sumatra and Great Tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the Government of Japan extended Bilateral Grant Aids totaling 24.6 billion yen to the Governments of Indonesia (14.6…

Appeal Number: 6970 Appeal Goal Amount: $15.23 million December 12, 2005 This revised appeal outlines a continuation of CWS activities through 2006, year two of its response to the SE Asia Tsunami and Nias Earthquake. Situation Re-Cap: The massive earthquake and resulting tsunami that…

INDONESIA It is not every day that a baking cooperative in a tiny Acehnese village receives a VIP guest and the ladies of Cot Paya were making no mistakes. Thirty minutes before their guest's arrival they finally located a simple…

Introduction The Tsunami Recovery Status Report is a compilation of statistics about the recovery process. It has been designed by Badan Rehabilitasi dan Rekonstruksi (BRR), the national agency charged with overseeing recovery, and the Office of the United Nations Recovery Coordinator…

Within hours after a tsunami devastated more than a dozen countries on December 26, 2004, the American Red Cross launched a comprehensive disaster response plan. The plan called for the immediate deployment of personnel, financial support and…