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| Tragedy can strike anyone, but it is always the poorest of the poor who suffer the most, because they have fewer resources. BEFORE their lives were hard enough; AFTER, the difficulties are often hard to imagine. That's why we must not forget the all too numerous victims of natural disasters and conflicts when they disappear from the headlines and the newscasts. |
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Development and Peace supports projects that encourage people at the local level to find their own solutions to their problems. |
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- The projects rely on the cooperative efforts of men and women to improve the living conditions of their communities.
- The projects Development and Peace supports with the help of its local partners go beyond the reconstruction of infrastructures to help rebuild people's lives and human relationships.
- Because they are rooted in the realities of their own countries, our partners are able to do more with less: More projects that meet local needs using local resources. Less money invested to support more projects which have lasting effects.
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| Help change the world by supporting the type of development that looks beyond today's emergency. |
| When the dust settles, when the catastrophe is no longer front-page news and the media have been dispatched elsewhere - THAT IS WHEN the needs are most desperate and permeate every aspect of the victims' day-to-day reality! |
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And THAT IS WHEN Development and Peace is there to support its local partners in their efforts to tackle the deeper causes of the problems: ignorance, dependence and lack of understanding. |
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- Your donation helps us support a type of development that looks to the future beyond the emergency.
- Your donation helps us rebuild lives that have been shattered in a matter of days, hours or minutes.
- Your donation helps build a more just and equitable world.
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Indonesia, Tsunami in December 2004
200,000 dead, 1.7 million refugees |
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| By February 2007, 3,331 houses and 23 villages have been fully rebuilt by the villagers of Banda Aceh, thanks to the assistance of our partner Urban Poor Linkage (UPLINK) and to $10,000,000 we received from caring Canadians in response to the tsunami. |
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Our reconstruction program also included infrastructure projects in each of the 23 villages. Our partner - Village Committee Network (JBU) - has been very active in monitoring the reconstruction work and leading the major ongoing coordination effort. |
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Pakistan, earthquake in October 2005
86,000 dead, 3,500,000 homeless |
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| We sent $1,600,000 of emergency relief to help 5,000 families in remote villages. In addition to basic necessities, our aid provided medical care and shelter and facilitated the families' return to their villages. It also gave a much-needed initial impetus to psychosocial counselling and vocational training programs. We are currently involved in the construction of hundreds of new houses by Pakistani themselves. |
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Haiti, hurricane Jeanne in September 2004
2,500 dead, 350,000 displaced people |
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| After our emergency intervention in 2004, which sent food, fresh water and medical supplies to Caritas Haiti and four local partners, we supported the subsequent stages of reconstruction in the city of Gonaives and the vast rural area of Artibonite and the North-West. We are currently funding economic and social reconstruction projects to restore agricultural production, repair water supply systems, reforest the land and build homes. |
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Lebanon, July 2006
1,200 dead, 1,000,000 displaced people |
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| Development and Peace was one of the first relief interventions allowed into the country. Between July 14 and August 31, 2006, 91,646 people (18,328 families) were housed in 383 centres or taken in by other families. Our aid consisted of basic necessities: food, water, medications, clothing, blankets, plates, utensils, and hygiene kits. |
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Development and Peace is continuing its aid to Iraqis
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