Relief is immediate support provided to minimize suffering and provide basic human needs such as food, water, blanket, medicine and shelter. Relief is significant because it is critical to engage with the impacted community at a time when people are most at-risk. Activities in the relief phase include evacuations, establishment of relief centres, providing temporary shelter and first aid.
Recovery is focused on restoring quality of life and community services to pre-disaster levels. Recovery is about restoring or improving the livelihoods and health of people who live in a disaster-affected community, as well as recovering them economically, physically, socially and environmentally.
Rehabilitation plays a crucial role in natural disasters owing to the significant upsurge of survivors with complex and long-term disabling injuries. Rehabilitation is an essential part of universal health coverage along with promotion of good health, prevention of disease, treatment and palliative care. Rehabilitation helps a child, adult or older person to be as independent as possible in everyday activities and enables participation in education, work, recreation and meaningful life roles such as taking care of family. The process of reconstruction involves partial or complete relocation and rebuilding the essential physical infrastructure and house so that vulnerability levels are reduced and families are able to get back to their feet. Reconstruction therefore paves the way for long term rehabilitation.
Anybody may need rehabilitation at some point in their lives, following an injury, surgery, disease or illness, or because their functioning has declined with age. Rehabilitation can be provided in many different places, such as inpatient or outpatient hospital settings, outpatient physio- or occupational therapy practices, and community settings such as an individual’s home, a school or a workplace. Rehabilitation is an investment, with cost benefits for both the individuals and society. It can help to avoid costly hospitalization, reduce hospital length of stay. As rehabilitation also enables individuals to engage in or return to work and employment, or to remain independent at home, it minimizes the need for financial support.
Ananda Marga Pracharak Sangh as a responsible organization and dedicated to its motto – “Service to Humanity” keeps a vigil eyes on needs of societal emergencies as per its capacity. Since past few decades, we have stood strong to help Famine, Drought, Tsunami, Natural calamity affected people and during Pandemics unbiased of nationality, religion, caste, community, colour, creed or anything else. We have helped thousands of families provide basic amenities during COVID-19 LOCKDOWN when none of them could go outside of their homes. We carried out relief and recovery work in remote villages of West Bengal, Odissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Chattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Delhi, Jammu, Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India.
In overseas, we have served in many countries. AMURT was established in 1970 and incorporated in the USA in 1985. It is a non-profit NGO – formally recognized as such by the United Nations through its Department of Public Information – having charitable and tax-exempt status in the US, UK and various other countries. AMURT has maintained a long-established working relationship with the Red Cross and numerous other disaster relief and development organizations. AMURT and AMURTEL have undertaken numerous disaster relief responses over the past years including Indonesia, USA, India, Nepal, Haiti, Indonesia, Myanmar, Dominican Republic, Somalia, Romania, Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Europe, Middle East, South America, etc. In 1991 AMURT and AMURTEL (ladies wing) got recognition from United Nations organization (UNO) as an NGO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KGk13bzhSI&t=280s – WHO BROUGHT IT TO LIFE- A Documentary about quality education in a very poor village called Al Baharwa in Egypt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlXkels6JT0 – South Sudan Projects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf450MSwbbY – Project implemented by AMURT and Foundation Life for All, Switzerland – in South Africa