Summer Retreat – 28th December to 3rd January
Theme – Awakening the Sadvipra Within
This year’s conference aims to deepen the experience of devotion in kiirtan sadhana and everyday life. Click on the image below for full details.
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Newsletter
AMURT team during recovery assessment
AMURTEL medical staff provide urgent care
During the first seven days following the disaster, AMURT and its sister organization AMURTEL assisted more than 15,000 residents, providing daily mobile medical clinics, hot soup kitchens and the distribution of dry food rations.
Community Based Food Distribution
When the earthquake struck Haiti, AMURT-Haiti’s seasoned team were on the ground in Port-Au-Prince ready to deliver an immediate response, by applying its community-based Emergency Management Response Plan. The first steps involved the facilitation of transferring food, medical services, water, and non-food items from the large aid agencies into the hands of smaller community-based groups who are best positioned to effectively coordinate distribution. AMURT signed an Emergency Management Contract with the World Food Program to distribute 15 metric tons of food to 20,000 residents through our grassroots network of local leadership. AMURT is facilitating inclusive and participatory community forums to structure the distribution themselves. This reduces the inevitable gaps in communication and coordination inherent in large-scale disaster response, and prepares the ground for future sustainable community development.
Mobile Clinics in Isolated Slums
The initial intervention targeted those most heavily impacted by the earthquake, assisting residents in the isolated slum areas of Boudon, Cite O’Kay and Cite Jereme by providing transport of wounded and supplies to hospitals. In the community of Delmas AMURT Haiti has working with our community-based partners providing logistical support, transport of medicine and patients, and coordination of medical volunteers, while in Boudan, our sister organization AMURTEL has been providing daily mobile clinics .
AMURT & AMURTEL supported community kitchens provide hot meals
Children and other vulnerable groups receive special attention
Long-Term Commitment to Grassroots Empowerment
AMURT will continue to align both its immediate and long-term response with the human rights-based framework of community empowerment, self-determination, and leadership capacity building. AMURT & AMURTEL have more than two decades of experience with relief work in Haiti, and have facilitated many ongoing development projects there. AMURTEL particularly focuses on meeting the special needs of women and children in disasters. The teams are responding to this calamity as rapidly and effectively as possible, and will remain far after the triage and immediate relief has been completed.
For a better understanding of this approach, please view our past and current community-based projects at our website, www.amurthaiti.org.
