International Association for Human Values
Tsunami Disaster Relief & Rehabilitation (contd..)
The International Association for Human Values (IAHV) is an international humanitarian non-governmental organization, which works for the propagation of human values in the political, economic, industrial, and social spheres throughout the world. IAHV is in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. In association with its sister organization Art of Living Foundation (AOLF), IAHV implements programs of sustainable development through human values, service and empowerment. IAHV has successfully provided services in 5 major areas of need known as 5H (Health, Homes, Hygiene, Human Values, and Harmony in Diversity) program. IAHV has also provided emergency relief assistance and support to the affected national societies in both the short-term effects of disaster as well as the post-trauma stresses that haunt survivors.
Art of Living Foundation’s educational and self development programs offer techniques to eliminate stress, improve health, expand awareness and resolve conflict and have been enjoyed by millions of people in 142 countries. It offers unique programs that eliminate stress and help individuals develop their highest potential. AOLF has repeatedly proven its mettle in combating high stress and conflict such as those faced in post-disaster trauma, war zones, prisons, etc.
Summary of Accomplishments in India
· Been active in all states and almost all districts of India, including the Andaman and NICO bar islands
· Reached out to 25,000 villages in India in which the 5H program has been implemented
· Trained 25,710 youth in Youth Leadership Training Program
· Conducted over 75,000 Breath Water Sound workshops which help in stress management by bringing awareness of community responsibilities, health, and hygiene, as well as by developing self-help groups which have benefited 2.3 million people
· Conducted 28,350 cleanliness campaigns
· Planted 1.3 million trees
· Conducted 12,857 medical camps
· Facilitated building of 1,000 permanent homes
· Facilitated formation of 2,000 Self-Help Groups with a membership of 35000 villagers
· Opened schools in remote villages
IAHV’s DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM (PAST)
IAHV has provided programmatic and emergency relief assistance and support to the affected national societies in both the short-term effects of disaster as well as the post-trauma stresses that haunt survivors. IAHV is one of the very few NGOs who continue to do work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Current and past activities include the following:
Gujarat Earthquake: January 2001
§ Provision of food, shelter and other basic necessities; Trauma Counseling
§ Establishment of temporary schools and 2 permanent schools; and,
§ Adoption of one village (Nana Dahisara) for its complete rehabilitation.
Orissa Cyclone: October 1999
§ Provision of food, clothes and other relief material to various villages of Puri (slum areas of Bhubaneshwar), Kendrapara and Paradip; and,
§ Aided the Swami Arupananda charitable trust, which was carrying out relief work in Tarapur.
New York City 9/11 Attach (USA): September 2001
§ AOL volunteers rallied around the courageous fire fighters and police officers with food and much needed stress relief through the AOL workshop;
§ Organized 80 free trauma relief workshops benefiting more than 1000 people.
Kosovo Conflict: May 2002 onwards
§ Provision of food and clothing for the needy;
§ In conjunction with UN Civil administrators, cleaned areas damaged by strife; and,
§ In cooperation with the ministry of Health, Conducted trauma relief courses for 700 people that included UN peacekeepers, torture victims, massacre witnesses and disabled KLA veterans. Similar programs for the Indian Special Police unit in Kosovo were run for 120 officers.
Jakarta Floods (Indonesia): April 2002
§ Provision of free medical camp to affected residents serving 500 patients;
§ Provision of school uniforms to 278 underprivileged children in Muara Kapuk area, which was Jakarta's most severely flood affected area;
§ Repair of schools and buildings as well as water storage tanks; and,
§ Provision of typewriters, ceiling fans, books and reference material to schools.
River Elbe Floods . Dresden, Pirna, Hitzacker (Germany)
§ More than 150 volunteers from 4 countries worked 2 weeks in streets and cellars to take out destroyed materials, trauma counseling/stress management for the victims of the flood.
Bam Earthquake (Iran): January 2003
§ Provided winter clothes, trauma counseling for affected people.
Afghanistan
§ Caring for war victims (victims of bombs, landmines, widows, and orphans), workshops for traumatized people, and stress management workshops for the helpers of NGOs and for staff members of UN offices.
Iraq - Continue to care for war victims, workshops for traumatized children, parents; free medicine.
South Russia, Beslan Terror Attack - Trauma counseling for 1,500 children.
Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation – December 2004
§ Provision of food, shelter and other basic necessities;
§ Provided Trauma Counseling to adults and children
§ Establishment of schools, orphanages, homes and vocational training centers in India and Sri Lanka
Katrina Hurricane Relief – August 2005
§ Providing trauma counseling programs to the affected including youth and children.
§ Providing assistance to the affected in relief shelters in Texas, Louisiana and Washington DC
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