THE CHURCH WORLD SERVICE: EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM
CWS SITUATION REPORT: INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE
December 20, 2006


SITUATION: Relief efforts continue in the wake of the Monday (Dec. 18) 
earthquake in North Sumatra, Indonesia, that killed at least four people 
and damaged or destroyed 680 homes. There are reports that there may be 
additional fatalities if bodies are found in ruins of the quake, 
centered in a remote part of Sumatra.

Church World Service Indonesia reports that roads in blocked due to the 
quake are now open, though many of those displaced are still fearful of 
returning to their homes because of fears of additional quakes.


RESPONSE: Church World Service Indonesia has shipped 400 CWS Baby Kits, 
as well as as well as 273 Unicef tarpaulins. to Mandailing, North 
Sumatra. The items will be distributed Thursday (Dec. 21), reports Novin 
Patanduk, CWS Indonesia team leader in Mandailing. Among the locales of 
distribution will be an orphanage in the community of Aisyah.

CWS Indonesia plans to conduct further assessments in West Sumatra, the 
neighboring province, where there are reportedly some 300 displaced 
families awaiting assistance. Access to that area is said to be very 
difficult, CWS Indonesia reports.

CWS is working in coordination with local and provincial disaster 
response units and with fellow members of the Action by Churches 
Together (ACT) network in the region, including YAKKUM Emergency Unit 
(YEU) and Yayasan Tanggul Bencana Indonesia (YTBI). YTBI has distributed 
rice, noodles and sugar to affected survivors.

For further information about disasters to which Church World Service is 
responding please visit www.churchworldservice.org or call the CWS 
Hotline, (800) 297-1516.

CWS Emergency Response Program special contacts: (212) 870-3151
Program Director: donnajderr@churchworldservice.org
International: flumeya@churchworldservice.org
Domestic: lreedbrown@churchworldservice.org

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