AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team)
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Japan Disaster Response
An 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a 10 meter high tsunami wave hit northeastern Japan at 2.46pm on Friday March 11. At this moment the scale of devastation is still not completely clear, but thousands of people have have died and hundreds of thousands are affected.
Members of AMURT & AMURTEL’s team in Japan are currently traveling to Sendai with a military convoy to evaluate the situation and make an initial plan to respond to the disaster. We will post regular updates on the situation as we receive them.
(NO UPDATE SINCE March 11 as of March 14)
listed on stand-by in record:
https://ccc.haghy.com/shelters/7748
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Disaster Relief – Sustainable Development – Community Service
AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) is one of the few private voluntary organizations of Third World origin, being founded in India in 1965. Its original objective was to help meet the needs of victims of disasters that regularly hit the Indian sub-continent.
Over the years AMURT has established teams in eighty countries, to create a network that can meet development and disaster needs almost anywhere in the world. In 1985 we broadened our goals to include long-term development.