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World Vision Canada Reports:
A massive 8.8 earthquake has rocked central Chile during the morning hours of February 27th. The full extent of damage is unknown, but over 70 people have lost their lives and a Tsunami alert has been called for the entire Pacific rim. You can help those in crisis by providing emergency supplies.
World Vision has worked in Chile for 30 years and have more than 100 staff in the country, many living and working in areas close to the quake epicenter. However, given the magnitude of this disaster, World Vision is preparing to deploy additional staff to support the relief response.
In times of crisis such as a earthquakes and floods, children and their families urgently need relief items to survive. Your gift will help World Vision Canada provide emergency food and supplies such as blankets, clothing, shelter, and medicine to families wherever the need is greatest. Your help enables World Vision to deliver these supplies quickly in times of need. Your gift is a practical way to let a stricken family know they are not alone.
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World Vision USA Reports:
World Vision begins relief efforts following Chile quake March 1, 2010
World Vision began distributing hundreds of blankets and some water containers to Santiago's earthquake survivors over the weekend, preparing to start an extensive response in the hardest-hit areas south of the capital. Many of the communities where we already work were close to the devastating quake's epicenter.
Late Sunday, World Vision flew a team of six relief and logistics experts from Santiago to Concepcion to assess the severity of the damage and to verify the safety of staff and community members who have thus far been cut off from communication or road access. The team will also open a second operations center in the south to coordinate with World Vision's relief teams in Santiago.
Relief items en route
World Vision has prepositioned relief supplies in its Santiago warehouse, and our team plans to purchase additional high-priority supplies in country, including water tanks, water purification tablets, cooking items, hygiene kits, blankets, and lanterns. These items will be rushed to communities in the Concepcion area as soon as air transport can be arranged. Meanwhile, we are working to bring in additional supplies from our regional warehouses, including one in La Paz, Bolivia.
In the five communities just outside Santiago where World Vision is responding, aid workers reported that many houses had collapsed completely, while others were still standing but too damaged for people to safely inhabit. There was no water or electricity service Sunday. Children were acting fearful of closed-in areas, and hundreds of families were still sleeping on the streets, our relief teams reported. The start of the new school term has also been postponed because of expected structural damage to school buildings.
Physical and emotional needs following disaster
While the needs in areas south of the capital are expected to be far more critical, children and families in the Santiago region require food, first aid and hygiene kits, water, water containers, disposable diapers, plastic sheeting, candles, batteries, flashlights, and blankets and sleeping bags, our staff said. Survivors also need medical attention, damage evaluations of their homes, and psychosocial support for children.
"We are extremely concerned about the emotional impact of so many aftershocks on children. Not only the physical needs, but the psychosocial needs of children in the quake zone will be a priority once the full extent of the needs are known and we can begin delivering much-needed supplies," said Tatiana Benavides, World Vision's national director in Chile.
World Vision has worked in Chile for 30 years and has more than 100 staff members in the country, reaching about 100,000 children and adults with education, microfinance, job training, and sustainable development programs.
Three ways you can help
Please pray for the children, families, and communities devastated by the earthquake in Chile, and for the efforts of relief teams like World Vision to bring critical, life-saving assistance in the aftermath. Check back for updates as they become available.
Donate now to World Vision's Chile Earthquake Relief Fund. Your gift will help our teams deliver assistance to quake survivors in desperate need, including emergency food, clean water, and family survival kits.
Sponsor a child in Chile. Your love and support for a child in need will provide basic essentials and help him or her be better equipped to cope with present and future disasters, like the recent quake.
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Donations in The USA
Three ways you can help
Please pray for the children, families, and communities devastated by the earthquake in Chile, and for the efforts of relief teams like World Vision to bring critical, life-saving assistance in the aftermath. Check back for updates as they become available.
Donate now to World Vision's Chile Earthquake Relief Fund. Your gift will help our teams deliver assistance to quake survivors in desperate need, including emergency food, clean water, and family survival kits.
Sponsor a child in Chile. Your love and support for a child in need will provide basic essentials and help him or her be better equipped to cope with present and future disasters, like the recent quake. |
