Initiative: Disaster Relief

Need

During times of disaster, the needs of a single person, a village, or an entire country can overwhelm local resources, particularly if those resources have been destroyed.

Calls for help, from the international community, come upon the heels of natural and manmade disasters including weather, war, disease, and famine.

Need often extends far beyond the immediate emergency response to a disaster. Which means International Aid involvement takes many forms over the days, weeks, and even years following a disaster. We may draw upon the programs and initiatives of our organization, and varied capabilities of our staff and volunteer network as circumstances call.

Solution

Emergency Aid, Extended Relief, Reconstruction

Year after year, International Aid maintains disaster services that are response-ready.

Over the past decade, we have responded to more than 100 natural and man-made disasters and we have delivered relief supplies in hundreds of countries.

International Aid remains prepared, with the help of our donors and the experience of our global relief team and partners, to deploy an aid distribution network that will get the right kinds of relief to people in greatest need.

Emergency Aid

  • Providing trained disaster aid and medical personnel.
  • Recruit products and services of working partner network.
  • Preparing and supporting faith partners, here and abroad, to respond to victims—needs at or near sites of destruction.
  • Treating isolated victims with critical medical care where aid is delayed or unavailable.
  • Providing supplies from food to blankets, bandages and medicine.
  • Providing disease prevention products including portable medical clinics and water purification systems.
  • Delivering generators and medical equipment needed to treat trauma injury patients.
  • Providing trauma counseling.

Extended Relief

  • Assisting hospitals to recover capacity to serve patients following staff loss, facility damage, and equipment shortage or outage.
  • Equipping local leaders with counseling skills to help traumatized children and families.
  • Developing Community-Based Healthcare initiatives to meet the basic health needs of communities of all sizes.

Reconstruction

  • Medical Equipment Services
  • Medical Equipment Training
  • Community-Based Healthcare Framework
  • Christian Eye Ministry

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