By Cheryl Zehr Walker June 10, 2011 AKRON, Pa. – Visiting Japan in May, MCC director of Food, Disaster and Material Resources Willie Reimer was reminded that response to disaster must be personal and...
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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...
Tsunami funds bring joy to new homeowners in India
By Gladys Terichow The memory of the 2004 tsunami slamming into their shore remains vivid in the minds of people living in Thillaivamthoppu, a remote coastal village in Tamil Nadu, India. But new...
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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...
Surviving the tsunami and saving for the future
Tim Shenk On the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, Govindamma was near the shore in Chinnatheru, her small fishing village in India's Tamil Nadu state, when she saw a huge wall of water rising above her and...
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...
MCC works with Anabaptists in India to aid tsunami survivors
MCC is providing some $175,400 Cdn./ $139,000 U.S. to a joint project with Mennonite Christian Service Fellowship of India (MCSFI) and the Mennonite Brethren Development Organisation (MBDO) to aid...
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...
Indonesia: Cheerful health teams heal with more than medicines
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Dressed simply in jeans, T-shirt and comfortable walking shoes, Dr. Sari Mutia Timur, 29, sits on mats under trees or tarps to talk with patients in camps for people who lost...
India project provides playground for children traumatized by tsunami
When MCC and its South India partner Social Unit for Community Health and Improvement (SUCHI) began talking to villagers in tsunami-ravaged areas in South India about what they needed to rebuild...
Indonesia: Survivors learn tools to help heal trauma
Emily Will Recovering from the Dec. 26 tsunami is about more than replacing buildings or clearing debris. Residents also must heal from the trauma of their losses. In the disaster's wake, three...
Indonesian Mennonites assemble relief kits for tsunami survivors
Abang Rahino In response to the earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Sumatra island on Dec. 26, volunteers from two of three Indonesian Mennonite conferences -- Gereja Injili di Tanah Jawa (GITJ)...
MCC's tsunami aid spreads as far as Somalia
When the tsunami hit on Dec. 26, 2004, destruction reached as far as the eastern coast of Africa. MCC is responding to help damaged fishing communities in Somalia's Adale district. The $64,623...