What are International Rescues current, long-term restoration projects in Aceh, Indonesia?
Our long term restoration goals are to provide for the construction and support of an Aceh ethnically-centered and locally controlled orphanage for those children whose parents have not yet been located since the Dec. 2004 Tsunami. Providing computers, communication equipment, financial support and resources to professors at Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, in creating the first locally designed and operated grief counseling and support services. And finally, the establishment of a fire-rescue training program to provide the citizens with adequate fire protection and emergency response services. In addition, we will provide for the establishment of a brick factory in Aceh. This factory will be staffed and managed by the local population. The intent is to provide jobs for persons displaced and unemployed as a result of the tsunami. Furthermore, it will provide desperately needed building material for the reconstruction of homes and businesses. The personnel of International Rescue in
