Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

CARE will rapidly reach those in need with emergency aid and help thousands of people rebuild their shattered lives. Clean water and food are crucial to preventing disease outbreaks in the aftermath of the earthquake.

Project Message

We have started distributing Air Rahmat, the water purification solution, to the people here, and showing them how to use it so they can have clean water for themselves and their families.
- Dr. Endang Widyastuti, CARE’s Health Programme Director in Indonesia

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Susan Davis,
Director of Development
Southeast Region
151 Ellis St NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
United States
404-979-9304
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Learn more about CARE and the project team.

CARE's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Water & Supplies for Earthquake Survivors	Provide shelter and clean water in Sri Lanka	Equip emergency health care workers in Thailand	Prevent Further Food Crisis in Niger
Provide clean water to Indonesian survivors	Help prevent disease and starvation in India	Emergency Response to the Bolivia Flood Disaster	Help Survivors of Central American Flood Disaster
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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Indonesia and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Indonesia, read the Human Development Report on Indonesia or the Wikipedia entry for Indonesia.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 02, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 31, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

One year report on CARE’s Response to the Java Earthquake

By CARE - Program Services & Information, July 02, 2007 04:47 PM

The earthquake that hit Indonesia’s Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces on May 26, 2006 lasted only a few minutes, but the resulting damage is still visible more than one year later. In total, an estimated 2.7 million people were affected, including 6,000 who were killed and 37,000 who were injured. Furthermore, more than 150,000 homes were completely destroyed and 260,000 were damaged. This damage, combined with the widespread loss of business assets, placed the earthquake among the most costly natural disasters in the developing world in the last 10 years. The extent of destruction was influenced by the area’s extremely high population density (there are approximately 4.5 million people living in the six most-affected districts).

Within 48 hours, CARE was on the ground assessing the needs of poor people living in the hard-hit rural villages surrounding the major city of Yogyakarta. As in all of our programming, we focused on reaching the worst-affected and least-served members of the population, which in this case included families in the Klaten district. Our relief activities centered on meeting residents’ most pressing needs, such as access to clean water, food, basic supplies and health care. Once the emergency phase of the disaster was over, CARE began helping families achieve important steps towards long-term recovery, such as rebuilding homes and improving family health.

In total, CARE’s emergency response mobilized nearly $3.2 million from generous public and private donors around the world, including donors like you, who gave to CARE’s Java Earthquake Response Fund. With this support, we not only launched a rapid and strategic emergency response, but have also continued to help affected families build back their lives over the past year. This report describes CARE’s emergency and rehabilitation work in Klaten district from May 2006 through May 2007.

Attachments:

• CARE’s Response to the Java Earthquake

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