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Community Rehabilitation Program in Banda Aceh and South
Aceh |
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Since the extremely destructive Tsunami had hit Banda
Aceh and other costal regions of northern Sumatra in December
2004, hundreds of International NGOs including AMDA have
engaged in humanitarian work. From the emergency phase
to the rehabilitation phase, AMDA has continued to support
the recovery process from the utter disaster.
Assistance to public hospitals and medical institutes
such as Zainoel Abidin Hospital and Syiah Kuala School of
Medicine in terms of training of human resources and supply
of medical tools and equipment is one type of, among others,
intervention during the earlier stage.
At the grassroots level, AMDA has implemented community-based
healing activities targeting those children who had lost
their sweet homes, family members, and/or intimate friends by the disaster.
Main components of the program are training of community
volunteers to lead a day-to-day community program called
"REACH-Aceh". It is an activity package with singing,
dancing, playing, drawing, writing and creating that was
expected to heal traumatized children. Health education
and mobile clinic have provided a safety net in the area
where the access to medical services is extremely limited.
It is also expected that local participation in management
of those activities brings unity to damaged communities.
While Banda Aceh suffered from the natural disaster, Aceh
Selatan (South Aceh) has severely suffered from a state
of civil war between the Indonesian government force and
Free Aceh Movement (GAM) during the last three
decades. As two parties had reached peace agreement in
August 2005 and access to communities became widely secured,
AMDA has also commenced the similar activities in war-torn
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Community Rehabilitation Program in Nias Island |
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Following the emergency shelter rehabilitation project
that ended in February 2007, AMDA-MINDS continued to support
damaged communities in Nias Island.
As many villages still needed to settle issues including
environmental sanitation, this program emphasizes on sanitation
facilities at both public and private locations. Latrines
and water tanks are being constructed at primary schools,
junior high school, kinder gardens, and household compounds.
To make latrine use and disease control more effective,
health education has been carried out through trained
volunteers in each village and school where latrines and
tanks are constructed. |
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