Steve and Oddny Gumaer started Partners Relief and Development in response to the needs of refugees and displaced people from Burma, and now in the Middle East, as well. Their mission is to demonstrate, through holistic action, God’s love to children and communities made vulnerable by war in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other conflict zones. |
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Rohingya camps in Bangladesh destroyed by Cyclone Mora
31 May 2017 19:29 GMT
“We heard that a cyclone was coming. But there’s no place we can go,” 27-year- old Hamida Begum, who said she fled to Bangladesh three months ago after her husband disappeared, told Reuters on Wednesday.
… that was the backdrop of our Partners trip to that area to see what help we could bring to those affected by the Cyclone. We had a small team who had two main purposes: emergency medical training specifically related to health problems post cyclone and providing funding for shelter and food. Our friend and local contact sat with us the first day. We asked him, “What is most needed?”. He said people need plastic tarps, as so many are sleeping in the rain due to the heavy destruction of their homes of bamboo and tarp roofing. I asked him how many he needed, he replied 2,000 tarps. The cost per tarp is $18, which translates to $36,000 for tarps only. We had with us only $17,500. What do you do when what you have is just not enough? What difference will our help make in face of such a massive need? ...
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Partners Relief and Development is a registered charity in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States. "We’re a small, grassroots nonprofit passionate about making a big impact in communities affected by conflict and oppression, demonstrating God’s love to children and giving them the opportunity to live free, full lives." For more information aboput Partners, visit their website at partners.ngo/
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