Difficult living conditions

  • 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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Living conditions

Living in a tent in hot and humid conditions.

Living in tents, sleeping in sleeping bags or even on the ground, eating freeze-dried rations diluted with boiling water, these are the living conditions for those volunteers on the ground.

Conditions improve gradually such as being put up in a house which has survived the disaster and being fed locally prepared food.

Well informed and ever vigilant when it comes to the basic hygiene conditions you need to adhere to following such a catastrophe, the teams on the ground avoid taking any risks which might pose a threat to their health in order to remain a 100% efficient.