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AAI Delivers Vital Trauma Training

The Karen State in the eastern region of Burma has been in the midst of civil war for more than 60 years. Human rights violations are an everyday reality for many ethic minority groups. Rape, forced labor and intentional killings are a part of everyday life.

In early January 2012, leaders of the Karen National Union (KNU), Burma's oldest ethnic armed group, signed a provisional ceasefire agreement with the government. Talks continue and there is hope, although at this time fighting, landmines and illness continue to be an everyday reality.

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AAI Provides Vital Clean Water Supply to Hway Ka Loke School on the Thai-Burma Border.

AAI acts fast to ensure that the children of Hway Ka Loke school have constant access to clean drinking water after wells dry up.

Hway Ka Loke school (HKL) provides shelter, food, education and a safe, community environment for hundreds of ethnic Karen children who have been forced across the border from Burma.

With hundreds of students being housed at the school for most of the year, constant access to safe and clean drinking water is essential for ensuring the health and hygiene of the children.

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AAI Continues to Cooperate With Local Partners in Pakistan in 2011-12

AAI continues to cooperate with local organisations based in Pakistan’s Sindh and Punjab provinces. After AAI’s response to the humanitarian emergency created by the 2010-11 Pakistan floods, AAI has continued its strong relationship with local partner organisation, the The Hunar Foundation.

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The Hway Ka Loke School Provides a Secure Community Environment for Hundreds of Burmese Children.

Hway Ka Loke school on the Thai-Burma border provides a safe and stable community based learning environment for refugee children forced across the border from Burma.

These children are forced to seek the security, shelter and education provided by the school for a range of reasons: Some children have been orphaned by the Junta’s ongoing brutal intervention in the ethnic border areas, for others their families cannot afford to support them and for most this is the only chance they’ll have of accessing education.

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Pakistan: AAI Rehabilitates a School while delivering WASH programs

In the midst of delivering a comprehensive WASH program in Pakistan, AAI has agreed to assist in the repair of a badly damaged school - Muhamad Samoo Boys School. Two months after the devastating floods, people started to return to flood affected areas however, the boy's school remained unusable due to significant mud damage and smell.

AAI has connected a new water hand pump and installed a cement apron to protect the area around the water point. AAI also re-cemented and painted the school buildings, toilets and urinals.

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Pakistan: AAI provides fresh water sources to vulnerable communities 

AAI continues to deliver vital Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects in communities that are still suffering from last year's floods that devastated over 20 million people. AAI has drilled 148 bores, installed 136 hand pumps and built 36 large cement aprons with drainage to help facilitate suitable hygiene practices. AAI has focused its efforts in the regions of Jar and Keenjar as floodwaters in these areas reached between 6 and10 feet high causing major damage to homes. The availability of clean water in Sindh Province in Southern Pakistan has been dangerously
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Public Healthcare Project in Response to Pakistan Floods, Sindh Province - Thatta District: FLOOD RESPONSE REPORT, December 2010

Australian Aid International (AAI) - The Hunar Foundation and other local partner organisations conducted public health operations in the Thatta District as a response to the severe flooding during the months of August and September 2010.
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The AAI team conducts mobile clinics at the village of Rawal Kandra in Jar, Thatta Sindh Province, Pakistan.

The village of Rawal Kandra has had no medical care since the flood hit in September 2010. The village is in a state of disrepair and there are clear signs of where the water had inundated the village. In light of the hardship, the village has a strong community spirit with traditional values that will enable standards to improve over time. The power is in the process of being re-established. At present, wash areas for women are being built and further reconstruction is being undertaken.

On arrival to the village there was an

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Public Healthcare Project in Response to Pakistan Floods, Sindh Province - Thatta District: FLOOD RESPONSE REPORT, October 2010

AAI and The Hunar Foundation Objectives

1. Increase access to curative and preventative healthcare services to vulnerable populations - targeting women and children - affected by the floods. Particular emphasis has been placed on early warning surveillance for diseases and capacity building of local healthcare workers in international disaster/refugee medicine.

2. Improve WASH at the village level through the provision of safe water supply activities, culturally appropriate latrine and bathroom construction, and hygiene and health promotion to

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Haiti, Pakistan: 2010 International Day for Disaster Reduction

The wide scale damage caused by the July floods in Pakistan and the staggering loss of life from the Haiti Earthquake earlier this year are a stark reminder of how a single disaster can set back development programs by years and perhaps decades. The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October is an opportunity to focus attention on the work that is and can be done to make communities around the world safer from disasters.

The earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince in January showed just how dangerous a large disaster in an urban area

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Relief Response to the Pakistan Floods

23 Sep 2010

Australian Aid I nternational (AAI) is a non-profit, non-government organisation committed to mitigating the double burden of poverty and poor access to quality health care in regions where health systems have either collapsed or are in crisis through the provision of emergency medical care, general and public health services and capacity building.

Over the course of the 2010 monsoon season, Pakistan experienced the worst floods in its history. Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods combined to create a moving body of water equal

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Pakistan: AAI the day of 18 September at the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps and medical facilities in Thutta, South East of Karachi

About 400,000 people in the Sindh district have been displaced due to the flooding from the Indus River. Conditions are very difficult in the camps due to the relentless heat, lack of easy access to safe water and an astonishing lack of basic sanitation facilities being available.

AAI staff met with the local government coordinator, who stated that 60 latrines have been established to date - over 10,000 are required.

Basic shelter has been provided to pockets of IDP, however many still remain without tents. The high number of children

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AAI Prepares to Implement a Health and Hygiene Reconstruction Program in Iraq

AAI has been working with Save the Children ( Iraq ) to assess a prospective Schools Rehabilitation Program in and around Basra and Um Qasr in Southern Iraq . This program will encompass the refurbishment of approximately 30 schools over a two year period and is designed to ensure the long-term improvement of children's lives in Iraq.

The first year of the project will focus on the building of infrastructure, renovation and rehabilitation. In the second year, AAI will work extensively with children, parents, community

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AAI Healthcare Project in Response to the Typhoons in the Philippines - End of Program Report (March, 2010)

Project name: AAI Disaster Risk Reduction and Capacity Building Project
Location: Los Banos, Laguna District, Republic of the Philippines
Report prepared by: Australian Aid International, Philippines
Period covered: 10 January - 15 March 2010

1.0: Operations

Australian Aid International (AAI) and its partners have been conducting a relief recovery program that has included disaster risk reduction and capacity building projects in the Laguna district from 10 January to 15 March 2010. Since January 2010, AAI has been operating

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Philippines: Current operations - Typhoon Ketsana and Typhoon Parma, up to 4 Mar 2010

Mr. Matt MacCalla from Direct Relief International visits AAI's Hygiene Training in the Municipality of Pila, Laguna.

AAI was thrilled to have long term partner Matt MacCalla from Direct Relief International attend AAI's hygiene training on 3 March, 2010. Mr. MacCalla was visiting from the United States and was able to observe first hand the hygiene training AAI has been actively delivering as a part of its disaster preparedness and capacity building program in the Philippines .

A total of 36 individuals attended the

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AAI Healthcare Project in Response to the Philippine Typhoons - February, 2010 End of Month Report

1.0 Operations

Australian Aid International (AAI) and partners have been conducting a relief recovery program entailing disaster risk reduction and capacity building projects in the Laguna district since January 2010.

AAI has been on the ground in the Philippines since the typhoons hit, and has been providing direct medical care as well as capacity building trainings to many affected communities. AAI has been involved in providing training to assist with long-term recovery and to improve community resilience against future disasters. While many areas

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AAI Healthcare Project in Response to the Philippine Typhoons - January, 2010 End of Month Report

Project Name: AAI Health Care and Capacity Building Project
Location: Los Banos, Laguna District, Republic of Philippines
Report prepared by: Australian Aid International, Philippines
Report submitted on: 12 February, 2010

1.0 Operations

Australian Aid International (AAI), and partners have been conducting a health care and capacity building program in the Laguna district since 11 January 2010.

Australian Aid International (AAI) has been on the ground since the typhoons hit, and AAI has been providing direct

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AAI & GHAP WAR TRAUMA MANAGEMENT TRAINING - THAI-BURMA BORDER PROGRAM 2010

Australian Aid international (AAI) provided another series of the War Trauma Management Training Courses (WTMTC), in partnership with the Karen Department of Health and Welfare (KDHW) and lead health organization on the Thai-Burma Border, Global Health Access Program (GHAP). AAI has been implementing projects for refugee minority groups on the Thai-Burma Boarder for over seven years and considers these projects of vital importance. This year the need could not be more urgent; the number of refugees fleeing into Thailand continues to rise as well