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January - December 2007 |
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Most low lying
islands had to be cleared of mud and debris
before agriculture could resume. |
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All equipment,
seeds and animals had to be ferried across from
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Besides buffalos
for deep plowing groups of farmers were also
equipped with hand held cultivators. |
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In all 334 farmers
on outlying island were benefitted form the
agricultural start up program. |
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June - December 2006 |
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The Jantho complex
with its ten buildings will accommodate 100
handicapped children.
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The Ujong Batee
kindergarten build by AMURT and some of its
happy students.
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January - May 2006
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AMURT & AMURTEL
created the ‘Windows to the world ’ program to
provide Acehnese high school students access to
computers and the internet.
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AMURT and AMURTEL
renovated and re- constructed several schools
and orphanages amongst them this junior high
school near Banda Aceh.
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In Meulaboh,
AMURT and Sun Spirit formed a cooperative of
organic farmers with 240 members. Now other
farmers are copying their techniques.
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November - December
2005 |
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With assistance from
the Internaltional Organization for Migration (IOM),
AMURT and AMURTEL have been distributing basic
household equipment and supplied to tsunami
survivors in the resettlement camps.
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higher resolution)
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Bada
Kindergarten is one of six schools that
AMURT and AMURTEL rehabilitated.
Spontaneous songs and poems were the
highlight of the inauguration of the new
school building.
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Ibu Yanti, 30, a beneficiary of our cake-making program
lost her only child – a 5-year boy – in the tsunami. In
addition to making cakes for sale, she also supervises
the children participating in AMURTEL’s traditional
dance program at Barak Bada.
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AMURTEL has
provided sewing machines to 130 women tailors in
the resettlement camps. Each woman owns her
sewing machine once she has completed twenty
school uniforms.
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SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER
2005 |
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AMURTEL donated new uniforms to kindergarten
students.
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AMURT outreach
officers teach local Indonesian farmers organic
agriculture.
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By rehabilitating 42 brick
factories, AMURT has restored the local economy of
Neuheun, enabling the residents to live normal lives
again.
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AMURTEL distribute cakes produced by their
livelihood program to orphanages, the elderly
and schools.
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JULY - AUGUST 2005 |
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AMURTEL kindergarten
under construction in
Bada Village, Aceh.
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Beneficiary of AMURT's brick factory
reconstruction program (left) discuss marketing
strategy with AMURT representative.
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Noogie performs for survivors of the
Tsunami on the six month anniversary of the disaster
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After the completing 20 school uniforms
the sewing machines this women works on become
hers.
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MAY - JUNE 2005
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Cash for work
participants clearing their village for an organic
community vegetable garden.
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resolution)
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55
tons of supplementary food items valued at
$39,000 were distributed to 6500 IDP's
(Indonesian Displaced Persons) in Aceh.
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Durung
Community clean up program sponsored by AMURT,
before (left) and after (right).
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APRIL 2005 |
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Workers assigned for a
“Cash for Work” program prepare the construction sites
for the reconstruction of destroyed brick kilns in
Neuheun village.
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AMURTEL team members are still going to Neuheun, TVRI and Lampisan
resettlement camps to conduct English classes,
play groups and exercise classes for the
children.
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MARCH 2005 |
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AMURT field director,
conducting a survey of the damage to the brick industry.
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An AMURTEL
volunteer makes the day brighter for a child in
Neuheun resettlement camp.
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FEBRUARY 2005 |
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 Residents of Aceh Besar received free testing and eye
glasses at eye camps held throughout the district.
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Volunteers
offloading relief supplies on the coast south of Banda
Aceh to communities marooned due to destroyed roads.
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AMURTEL provides
non-formal education and child care in relief camps near
Banda Aceh
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Recreational kits were
distributed to several schools on the Meulaboh district.
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JANUARY 2005 |
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AMURT volunteers
distribute food parcels to long lines of hungry
residents in Banda Aceh, Indonesia
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AMURT volunteers in a joint operation with the army
search and recover dead bodies in and near Band
Aceh.
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