Since September 22nd, Mt. Agung on Indonesia’s Bali island has shown increased volcanic activity, prompting the government to order the evacuation of around 75,000 people living nearby. Today, ACT...
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CWS Initial Appeal: Mt. Sinabung Eruption (Indonesia)
APPEAL CODE: #700-O INITIAL APPEAL GOAL: $200,043 August 4, 2014 SITUATION: After being dormant for more than 400 years, the 8,530-foot Mt. Sinabung volcano on Sumatra Island, Indonesia, erupted in...
Situation Report: East Java Volcano (Indonesia)
SITUATION: Mount Kelud, one of the active volcanoes in East Java, Indonesia, erupted Thursday (Feb. 13), with eight continuous explosions. The eruptions forced at least 201,228 people from 35...
Indonesia (Sulawesi) volcanic eruptions: CWS situation report 07-18-11
SITUATION: Three volcanoes have sent plumes of ash into the sky and forced thousands from their homes in the northern part of Indonesia's Sulawesi province. In all, some 6,000 people have been...
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HOTLINE - week of December 20, 2010: Indonesia, Sudan
- CWS helping children gain a sense of normalcy after Mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia - Preparing and praying for peace after January referendum in South Sudan - Don't give up on the DREAM Act,...
Indonesia: Out of the ashes, CWS helps Merapi communities 'start over'
By Ilmi Suminar and Matt Hackworth/CWS Mt. Merapi, Java, Indonesia - Reti, a mother of two, fled her home moments after feeling the earth-rattling rumble of the erupting volcano beneath her house,...
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HOTLINE - week of November 29, 2010: Indonesia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Haiti
CWS continues response to families affected by Indonesian volcano - Flood-affected families in Pakistan receive continuing CWS assistance - Young woman in Rwanda relates CWS Giving Hope success story ...
INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI AND VOLCANIC ERUPTION: CWS SITUATION REPORT: 10-29-10
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SITUATION REPORT: INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI AND VOLCANIC ERUPTION Oct. 29, 2010 SITUATION: Search and rescue workers continue...
CWS SITUATION REPORT: INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI AND VOLCANIC ERUPTION
Oct. 26, 2010 SITUATION: Indonesia is dealing with two disasters: a powerful earthquake that triggered a tsunami that killed at least 113 people, with the death toll rising, and a volcanic eruption...
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Pakistan and India/Gaza and Westbank/Indonesia: Hotline 16 Jul 2007
Pakistan and India Like many tenant farmers in flood-affected parts of Pakistan, Nawaz and his family have lost their roof, their entire crop, and their goats. Even before the recent storms and...
CWS Situation Report: Indonesia volcano
SITUATION: More than 9,000 people have been evacuated from an area surrounding Mount Gamkonora in Halmahera, North Maluku province, eastern Indonesia, during volcanic eruptions this week. Ash and...
Indonesia Volcano: CWS/ERP Situation Report
SITUATION: The area around Mount Merapi in central Java, Indonesia, continues to remain under alert following last week's volcanic eruptions that threaten the safety of hundreds of nearby residents...
Situation report: Indonesia-Tahuna volcanic eruption
SITUATION: Beginning June 9, Mount Awu, north of Sulawesi on Sangihe Island, erupted twice. The volcanic eruption spewed smoke and ash some two miles from its crater. The eruption has caused more...
Helping to provide health care for volcano survivors in Goma, DR Congo
CWS is partnering with Interchurch Medical Assistance to implement a health program for survivors -- some 450,000 people -- of the January 2002 Goma volcano eruption. Improving access and restoring...
CWS updated and expanded emergency appeal: Congo volcano
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM UPDATED AND EXPANDED EMERGENCY APPEAL: Congo Volcano #6439 for $718,557 March 4, 2002 (Expanded appeal; was initially issued Jan. 21 for $200,000; now...
CWS assists families uprooted by volcanic eruption in Democratic Republic of Congo
Josephina Bampende lifts the lid of her cooking pot. She is cooking a meal consisting of beans -- the only food she has -- on a small fire outside the Birere Baptist church in Goma. This is where the...
Congo Volcano: CWS situation report 18 Feb 2002
Situation Report: The situation in and around Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, remains chaotic in the wake of the devastation caused by the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo. Volcanic lava has...
CWS helps meet medical needs in Congo
As families in and around Goma attempt to recover from the mid-January eruption of the Mt. Nyiragongo volcano, CWS is focusing its efforts on medical needs. CWS's local medical partner organization,...
CWS helps to meet emergency needs in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Riziki Sherina and her family fled their home in Goma, not even stopping to take anything with them, when they saw the lava stream from Mount Nyiragongo coming toward their house. The family has...
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Water, food, shelter and other aid for survivors of Congo volcanic eruption
EARTHQUAKES NOW CAUSING MORE DAMAGE, LOSS OF HOMES Baltimore, January 29, 2002 - Lutheran World Relief, along with other members of Action by Churches Together (ACT) International, an interchurch...