Checking the equipment

  • Organizing emergency response teams

    The volunteers' first glimpse of where they will be working.

  • Loading the emergency equipment

  • Coming face to face with the aftermath of the tsunami

  • Getting the volunteers and equipment to where they are needed

  • Checking the equipment

  • The welcome of the local community

  • Assisting NGOs

  • Living conditions

  • Inventory of requirements

  • Assessing the quality of the wells

  • Prioritizing drinking water for the hospital

  • Repairing the water supply system in Meulaboh

  • Treating water

  • Storing drinking water

  • Supplying water

  • Monitoring the quality of the drinking water

  • Children back at school

  • Supplying drinking water to remote villages

  • Concentrating on the task ahead

  • The feeling of having been useful


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Taking an inventory of the equipment

As soon as it is unloaded, an inventory is taken of all the equipment which is then checked before use.

The equipment is checked as soon as it is unloaded from the trucks. The local communities kindly volunteer to help with this.

The Group chooses equipment which is especially robust enough so as to be operational within a short timeframe and which has a long working life despite the fact it will be used in conditions which are often difficult and trying.

This equipment will continue to operate after the volunteers have left having first shared their expertise with those who are in charge locally.