Volontaires.... Sans
Frontieres(VSF)
is an international disaster relief management
organization established to assist the victims of
natural disasters
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ABOUT THE WORK We Help;
Establishing teams of relief-ready volunteers in
disaster prone places is a new departure for us, one which we
are piloting in Peru, where we already have a national
presence helping abandoned and at risk people. We are also
taking steps to implement VSF in other countries where we work
and in places where we have friends, colleagues and
cooperating NGOs.
With Search & Recovery / Relief Coordination
specialists working as a first response team we hope to be
able to save many more lives than would normally be
expected
Our work is always in cooperation with, support
of and coordinated with Governments and recognised
international relief response NGOs and bodies. We plan to
be there first & have procedures in place when others
arrive..
Below is the
web page of one of the NGOs where our volunteers work each
weekday. In
fact we are largely responsible for the success of the local
projects of this NGO.
We
already have volunteers on the ground.
They are busy helping some of the best local NGOs. And should
an event occur on their watch which requires rescue/relief,
they are ready to spring into action. For we are all part
of a team of helpers, medics, search & rescue, logiitics,
crisis management. brWORK
WITH US WE WERE THERE Sometimes in force, some- times only a few or even one,
but we were there. Since the mid 60´s we have assisted at
about half the major natural disasters on earth. Here are a
few:
An earthquake and then a
tsunami in a part of Latin America where we
have opened schools exposed our lack of preparedness:
the fact that we were neither trained nor
equipped to deal with such a loss. We did
not have an effective plan for getting our
schools reopened right away. We
have corrected this. Not only can
we now get our own schools operating again
within a few days, we can also stand in for
state schools which are likely to be closed
for many months. We can place our portable
schools near to a collapsed or damaged national
school or else in a refugee camp if the stricken
community is temporarily uninhabitable.
The principal limitation to how many portable schools
we can open how quickly is the cost of each
SCHOOL-IN-A-BOX [$2,000
US] and the cost of operating each individual
SCHOOL-IN-A-BOX per month [$700 US] for up
to one school term. We have sufficient trained,
mobile staff and we use local teachers in
country. Each SCHOOL-IN-A-BOX
is made from an air cargo
container - each folds out to make a temporary
school able to accommodate up to 30 children
- with two daily shafts = 60 children. Each
SCHOOL-IN-A-BOX is designed to last for
up to one year, and can double as a shelter
at night. We ship them from Lima airport.
So far we have opened 63
schools throughout Latin America: [Argentina,
Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela].
It takes between two and four weeks from request
to fully functioning school [the shortest
time so far is one day]. So here we are, standing
by, ready to respond. Call us, SKYPE
us or email us: Call: +51 44 949924445 (or +51 44 202141)
SKYPE: "agendaint" , Email:
urgent@school-in-a-box.org
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SCHOOL-IN-A-BOX is a collaborative effort between: Agenda
SOS International, Bruce Organisation &
Volontaires Sans Frontieres
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Stricken children,
..........They come to us
..........as
they are; we make of them
..........what
they let us
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