CARE in Indonesia

In less than twenty minutes, more than 130,000 people were killed when the Boxing Day tsunami struck Indonesia.

In Indonesia we:
  • help people to protect themselves against future disasters
  • help small businesses, for example by providing access to cheap loans
  • build houses

CARE was one of the first international aid agencies to start working in the area immediately afterwards, providing people with desperately-needed food, water, and shelter.

CARE in action:

Preparing for disasters
Indonesia has suffered from a spate of natural disasters killing more than 133,000 people since 2004, including the tsunami and the 2006 earthquake. In response we have developed extensive emergency planning programmes which ensure communities know how to respond to, and recover from, disasters both in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, and in the longer term.

Earthquake
CARE was one of the first international aid agencies to start work in the Yogyakarta district, one of the worst hit by the earthquake. As well as providing immediate relief such as shelter and medical care we also gave out water purification kits to guard against outbreaks of water-borne diseases.

 

 

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