By Zoran Selakovic | Director Operations & Strategy
After a devastating earthquake and resultant tsunami in Sulawesi, Indonesia, we received reports of 62,659 people displaced, 66,926 houses damaged and 67,335 families affected. They were horrifying statistics and we worked with our partners to bring particular focus to returning children to school and families to normalcy.
To acchieve this, we partnered with World Hope International and a local established NGO, Yayasan Kasih Yang Utama within Sulawesi. These partnerships helped us maximize the impact of the donation by providing filters for clean water access across schools and communities to support schools in resuming their programs and teaching activities.
Clean water is a basic element for improving the health of the children and the general Sulawesi population si it made sense for us to focus on this aspect - without clean water it's not possible to pursue other steps in the recovery like resuming regular school attendance.
We have water filters scheduled to arrive on January 14th and be distributed in the following days and will share pictures and stories of their implementation in the follow-up update.
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