ADEPT has identified teachers as strong proponents of Disaster Preparedness in the Tsunami affected communities. Teachers are directly in touch with children, parents, and other members of the...
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ADEPT Celebrates World Sight Day
In the last one year ADEPT, in collaboration with Aravind Eye Hospital and the District Blindness Control Society, has been conducting eye camps in the Tsunami affected villages to identify the...
India: Floods in Rajasthan compound Gujarat woes
Even as the flood situation in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh improved, heavy rainfall in Rajasthan has resulted in 10 rivers overflowing and flooding Pali, Sirohi, Udaipur,...
India: Emergency health precautions for flooded areas
As water levels recede in flood hit Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Orissa, rotting animal carcasses, issues of sanitation, and problems of sewage from sewers,...
Central India inundated by floods from East coast to West
Large tracts of the entire central belt of India-from the east coast all the way acrossto the west coast -continue to beinundated by floods. Thousands of villages in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya...
Sri Lanka + 2 more
They give their lives to help others
We condemn the massacre of Humanitarian Aid workers in Sri Lanka. Countries have so far shown little motivation to do what needs to be done. The situation has been made grim by the collapse of the...
India: ADEPT successfully exits Kashmir quake operations
ADEPT has brought its Kashmir Quake operations to a successful close on 31 July 2006. Over the last 2 months of its operations ADEPT focussed on the creation of a team of "Social Health Attendants"...
Post Flood Emergency Health Precautions
Preventing outbreaks of diseases like typhoid, dysentery, infectious hepatitis, and other diseases associated with flood waters should now be the major objective of all relief work. Public education...
Sri Lanka: Mandapam refugee camp - fact file
Background Located on 287 acres on the Rameshwaram Madurai National Highway, No.490, Mandapam refugee camp, was originally raised in 1917 by the British Raj. Then, it served as a transit facility for...
Sri Lanka: Refugees keep pouring into Tamilnadu
The refugee wave continues. One hundred and ten Sri Lankan Tamils were offloaded by boats into neck deep water off the coast of Dhanushkodi today, 27 June 2006. They included 38 men, 37 women, 20...
Kashmir: ADEPT to create Social Health Attendants
As ADEPT begins winding down operations in Quake affected Kashmir, there is still a strong demand from both the community and the district administration for ADEPT to continue its work. In order to...
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Sri Lanka/India: New wave hits Tamilnadu Coast
Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka has resulted in Tamil refugees landing in Tamil Nadu, India over the last one month. The majority of the refugees are from Mannar-Trincomalee belt in Sri Lanka. In the...
Indonesia declares emergency after quake devastates Yogyakarta
Indonesia's government declared a state of emergency late on thr night of 28 May 2006 after a quake killed more than 4,600 people early on 27 May. Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the emergency period...
India: ADEPT trained youth create 1000 community support volunteers
Ten educated unemployed youth from quake affected villages in Kashmir were given hands on training with field exposure by ADEPT in the first week of April 2006. They were trained in disaster health...
India: Women doctor's team begins operating in Kashmir
A team of women doctor with women health attendants began operations in quake affected Baramulla and Uri districts on 15 April 2006. The earlier medical relief operations by ADEPT's team in the area...
India: ADEPT trained Youth find training useful in Kashmir violence
More than 40 civilians were injured in the district Baramulla and Udhampur when suspected rebels attacked police. The injured included children. Some of the injured are critical. Youth trained...
Needs of earth quake affected communities in Indian Kashmir
ADEPT's operational area for the South Asia quake of October 2005, covers the districts of Baramulla, Uri, and Kupwara in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Around 44 villages with a population...
India: Kashmir meets Cuddalore
On 3 April 2006, ten young educated unemployed youth from the districts of Baramulla, Uri, and Kupwara in snow-bound quake affected Kashmir, arrived in sweltering Chennai. They were welcomed at the...
India: Kashmiri quake victims to meet the Tsunami hit
TEN youths from quake-affected villages of Kashmir are in Chennai for a week as part of their training in psycho-social intervention. The youths and their fellow villagers from Kashmir, who are...
Pakistan: Medical services report
On October 8, 2005, a massive earthquake measuring 7.5 on the scale shook the whole of North India and Pakistan. Reported to be the first earthquake in the span of 120 years, this tragedy left...