EARTHQUAKE IN INDONESIA
Emergency Alert - Updated 11/06
You can help
our local partners
provide needed assistance.
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Background:
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the heavily populated area of Yogyakarta, Indonesia early in the morning of May 27, 2006, killing over 5,700 people and injuring more than 38,000.
Many buildings in the city of 3 million were destroyed, and as many as 1.5 million people may have been left homeless by the disaster (AlertNet, UMCOR).
LWR AND PARTNERS
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Lutheran World Relief (LWR) is working with its partners in Action by Churches Together (ACT), a global consortium of churches and faith-based aid agencies, to assist survivors.
Response to this crisis includes:
- Distribution of food and non-food relief items
- Trauma counseling
- Disaster preparedness training
- Support of hospitals with medicines and supplies
- Basic medical training for rural populations
- Water and sanitation projects to prevent the spread of disease
- Livelihood and housing reconstruction support.
The best way to assist people caught in an emergency is to give cash so that our partner staff on the ground can be most effective. Your gift will be used for the “Indonesia Earthquake” until needs there are met. After that, further gifts will be used to help LWR respond where the need is greatest. During regular business hours, Monday through Friday, you may also call 1-800-LWR-LWR-2, or mail a check or money order to:
Lutheran World Relief -
Indonesia Earthquake
P.O. Box 17061
Baltimore, MD 21298-9832
Please also consider making an unrestricted donation which will enable LWR to respond quickly to the next emergency. Thank you for your help.
MEDIA CONTACT: Emily Sollie, 410-230-2802, esollie@lwr.org
Lutheran World Relief is a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), individuals and parish groups in international relief, development, advocacy and social responsibility. LWR is a member of Action by Churches Together.
