Today we had a delegation from Boeing, the largest global aircraft manufacturer in the world from Seattle. Since the emplyees and the company donated substantial amounts of money, they wanted to come and see how their money is being utilised for the Tsunami Rehabilitation.
The Boeing team consisted of Regional Vice President of SE Asia- Mr. Paul T. Walters, The Director of Global Corporate Citizenship department- Ms. Linda D Martin, and two other Boeing staff along with senior staff from Mercycorps USA.
We had a presentation of CARE's work in Indonesia, particularly related to Tsunami rehabilitation. Some of the major achievements of CARE for Tsunami Operations are
Total Beneficiaries since Tsunami: 350,000
Current Beneficiaries: 180,000
Total Budget (2004- 2009): 83 million USD
Current Staff Strength: 717 National, 28 International
No of Audits (2004-2006): More than 30 audits
Building 2728 transitional houses and 1835 permanent houses.
One of the biggest challenges are the procurement of timber. NGOs have decided not to procure timber locally which might devastate local forest resources. So, everybody tried to import from far off places, and the Indonesian government was not able to adequately facilitate shipping of timber. The first lot for CARE arrived only in September 2006. In some cases, the finest ever available imported timber was refused by the community, since they are unaware of that particular timber.
1st and 2nd of February, we are taking them to the villages, and letting them to interact with the beneficiaries.
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