Blurb: MCC and a partner, Indonesian Mennonite Diakonial Service, respond to needs of Indonesians displaced by eruptions of Mount Merapi and homeless because of flash flooding. By Linda Espenshade ...
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MCC increases Asia Disasters appeal
Blurb: Flooding damage in India and Cambodia, housing needs in Indonesia increase MCC's initial Asia Disasters appeal to $260,000 Cdn/ $250,000 U.S., as part of a $760,000 Cdn/ $750,000 U.S. relief...
Indonesia + 2 more
MCC appeals for donations for victims of Asia disasters
Oct. 2, 2009 AKRON, Pa. - Mennonite Central Committee is appealing for an initial $100,000 to assist people in Asia whose homes and lives were devastated by recent earthquakes and flooding. Two...
Indonesia + 5 more
MCC: Global perspectives on trauma healing
AKRON, Pa. - Snezana Andelic realized something was wrong when she moved home to Belgrade, Serbia, after studying abroad in the 1990s. Serbia had fought several wars while she was away, and ordinary...
Indonesia: In the tsunami's wake, a school points the way to recovery
By Tim Shenk People in the town of Lhoknga, Indonesia, recently celebrated the opening of a junior high school that Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) helped rebuild after it was destroyed by the...
India + 2 more
South Asia: MCC helps build hundreds of houses for tsunami survivors
By Tim Shenk Dec. 22, 2006, AKRON, Pa. -- Two years after a tsunami devastated communities around the Indian Ocean, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) continues to help build hundreds of houses for...
Indonesian Mennonites to assess damage from recent tsunami
Tim Shenk A tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Java on July 17, causing more than 300 deaths and destroying more than 600 homes, according to local media reports. The director of an MCC partner...
Indonesia: Java earthquake appeal
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Java on May 27, causing more than 6,200 deaths and leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless, according to the Indonesian government...
MCC, Indonesian Mennonite churches, and local partners now responding to Indonesia earthquake
Within 36 hours of a powerful earthquake which shook the Indonesian island of Java Saturday morning MCC and its local partners, including the Muria Mennonite Synod (GKMI) of Indonesia, were...
From the heart of the earthquake in Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Abang Rahino, MCC Indonesia, May 29, 2006 - The scene is precisely as horrible as what I saw in Aceh sixteen months ago. Pundong District, Bantul, Jogjakarta Province, Indonesia, has been flattened...
Earthquake hits Indonesia, MCC preparing to respond
Mark Beach A powerful earthquake shook the Indonesia island of Java early Saturday morning killing more than 2,600 and injuring thousands more. The earthquake was centered in the historic city of...
Indonesian island gets help in trauma recovery
Nias, an Indonesian island off the coast of Sumatra, was struck by two disasters in the last year -- the tsunami of Dec. 26 and a major earthquake on March 28. Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is...
Project provides textbooks, uniforms and other assistance for Indonesian teachers
Many schools in the coastal area of Aceh, Indonesia, were either totally destroyed or heavily damaged by the tsunami on December 26, 2004. Surviving teachers and students came together to reopen...
Indonesia: MCC helps blind tsunami survivors learn massage
MCC funds are helping 30 blind people in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, learn therapeutic massage. The Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami devastated Banda Aceh, and people with pre-existing handicaps have struggled to...
MCC helps Indonesian college students step in for fallen teachers
MCC is funding a project to place 106 Indonesian student teachers in elementary schools that lost their teachers in the tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004. These college students will complete their student...
Indonesia: New legs in Banda Aceh
In tsunami-devastated Banda Aceh, Indonesia, MCC is providing $82,960 Cdn./$68,360 U.S. for a project to reach out to those who lost limbs in the tsunami. Through this effort, some 200 amputees will...
MCC continues trauma healing projects in Indonesia
MCC consultants Karl and Evelyn Bartsch joined a team of Indonesia trauma healing experts in January and February to train some 83 people in trauma healing techniques in Java and Banda Aceh,...
Farmers rejoice in cleared fields in Samalanga, Indonesia
by Emily Will BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- In early February, the fields surrounding 14 villages in the tsunami-damaged district of Samalanga appeared brown and dead. They were littered with roofing...
Patients flow into hospital of MCC partner organization in Nias, Indonesia
by Marla Pierson Lester GUNUNG SITOLI, Indonesia -- Two weeks after a second devastating earthquake struck near the island of Nias, staff of a new temporary hospital run by a Mennonite Central...
MCC responds to March 28 earthquake off coast of Indonesia
As part of a multi-million dollar tsunami response in Asia, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is also committing $60,700 Cdn./$50,000 U.S. to respond to devastation on the island of Nias from a March...