CHURCH WORLD SERVICE: EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM
UPDATED CWS EMERGENCY: 2008 CHINA EARTHQUAKE
June 12, 2008


SITUATION: The death toll from the May 12 earthquake centered in Sichuan 
province, China, stands at 69,019 (as of June 2), with 373,573 injured 
and 18,627 still missing. Continuous aftershocks and geologic change 
have been threatening the security of the survivors, aid workers and 
volunteers, according to CWS partner, the Amity Foundation.


RESPONSE: Church World Service has supported the work of the Amity 
Foundation, an Action By Churches Together (ACT) member, in this 
response. The Amity Foundation immediately began providing relief 
assistance to survivors in coordination with their local partners by 
providing quilts, plastic sheeting, food and drinking water.

This revised appeal fleshes out and details the specifics of an expanded 
response now under way and following further assessments of current 
needs on the ground. The initial CWS-supported response in Mianzhu 
County included preliminary psycho-social counseling at a camp for 6,000 
displaced persons in a stadium.

In the CWS-supported response, Amity is assisting 20,000 families -- 
some 75,000 people -- through distribution of mostly non-food items, 
continued provision of psycho-social care, reconstruction of 500 houses, 
two primary schools and five village clinics, repair of 20 water 
systems, provision of emergency preparedness training and cash grants 
for the purchase of agricultural tools.

Work is focused on Beichuan, Mianzhu, Wen Chuan, Shifang, Dujiangyan and 
Pengzhou counties in Sichuan Province; Wen County in Gansu Province; and 
Lueyang County in Shaanxi Province.

Highlights of the response include:

Crisis phase: Providing 20,000 of the most vulnerable individuals with 
sufficient food (15 kilos of rice/person, instant noodle, sausage and 
water) to tide them over the immediate emergency period of food 
shortages; providing more than 10,000 poor families with quilts; 
providing 20,000 homeless families with plastic sheeting.

Post-crisis phase: Reconstructing 500 houses that were destroyed or 
severely damaged, to meet the basic shelter needs for those made 
homeless; rebuilding two schools, so that students can resume their 
schooling in safe classrooms; rehabilitation of 20 drinking water or 
irrigation systems, so that villagers get clean water, or can resume 
their agricultural and livelihood production as quickly as possible; 
reconstructing five village clinics to improve local medical health 
conditions; providing cash grants of 2,000 Chinese Yuan (nearly US $300) 
each for 1,000 families, in order to help survivors purchase 
agricultural production materials; training for 5,000 people in terms of 
agricultural production, earthquake-related knowledge and medical 
health, etc.


BUDGET: Includes $3.9 million in direct assistance, including $670,436 
during crisis phrase, of which was $276,006 was food aid;  $2,762,319 
during the post-crisis phase: $1.4 million in housing construction; 
$434,783 in school building, and $434,783 in drinking water 
rehabilitation, among major items.

CWS Emergency Response Program special contacts: (212) 870-3151

Program Director: dderr@churchworldservice.org
Domestic: bvollmering@churchworldservice.org


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