Medan Daily News, Indonesia, January 6, 2005

Medan Daily News Indonesia, January 15, 2005

(Originally in Chinese)

The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association of Formosa donates five hundred million rupiahs worth of relief supplies to disaster-stricken Aceh

[Staff report] An unprecedented catastrophe triggered by an earthquake and tsunami in North Sumatra and Aceh took a hundred thousand lives and displaced millions of people who are now desperately fleeing to survive. The international community immediately expressed concern about the disaster, and relief supplies and food are pouring into the country. Humanitarian workers from nations around the world have quickly joined volunteer teams to conduct rescue and relief efforts in the affected areas, searching for survivors, collecting bodies, burying the dead and clearing rubble so that reconstruction work can soon begin.

Thirty-five volunteers from The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association arrived from Formosa to deliver relief materials, medical supplies, food and clothing to the victims, and set up medical posts to provide treatment in various affected areas of Aceh.

The group's four truckloads of relief supplies valued at five hundred million Rupiahs and transported by Mitsubishi vehicles included medicines, prayer robes, slippers, clothing, cookies, mineral water, rice, instant noodles, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, green beans, mosquito nets, underwear and women's necessities.

The Association, working in cooperation with the Ganda Pura Branch of the Indonesian Red Cross, delivered the materials directly to victims in six townships Ganda Pura and Kecamatan Counties—Samalanga, Jeunib, Plimbang, Peudada, Jeumpa Kuala and Jangka, as well as seven townships of Pidie County, especially Sigli city. Provisions were also directly delivered to the Simpang Tiga Disaster Relief Center and the Sigli Disaster Relief Center at Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda No 10.  (Karno/H)

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