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..
------ Cost to
volunteer: $200 to $500 per month (all inclu )
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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 60īs 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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now
SCHOOL-IN-A-BOX is a collaborative effort between:
Agenda SOS International, Bruce Organisation & Volontaires
Sans Frontieres
EARTHQUAKE
TSUNAMI
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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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