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  • [2012] Emergency Appeals and Reports 2012 MDRHN006 to MDRJM003

Non-Registry
Archive Content Type:
  • Archive File
Records Classification:
  • 11-130-002
Other Title Information:

  • MDRHN006 Honduras Fire in Comayagua Penitentiary (2012)

    MDRHT010 Haiti Hurricane Sandy (2012-2014)

    MDRIN009 India Assam Floods (2012-2013)

    MDRJM003 Jamaica Hurricane Sandy (2012-2014)

Source of Supplied Title:
  • File name
Archive Date:
  • 2012 - 2014
Scope and Contents:

  • IFRC DREF Operation MDRHN006 describes the allocation of money from the DREF to enable the Honduran Red Cross respond to a fire in the Comayagua Penitentiary by providing psychosocial support and first aid care to affected families of inmates, providing psychosocial support to volunteers and technical staff responding to the crisis, and by replenishing medical supplies used during the evacuation and pre-hospital care of inmates from the penitentiary. 

     

    IFRC Emergency Appeal MDRHT010 requests donations of cash and in-kind for the Federation to support the Haiti Red Cross Society assist people affected by Hurricane Sandy by:  providing food, kitchen sets, cleaning kits, shelter tool kits and construction materials, cash transfers, small fishing boats, fishing nets, diesel pumps and storage equipment, hygiene kits, buckets, soap, water purifiers, aquatabs and chlorine, and mosquito nets; supervising repair and reconstruction of houses; providing technical support for business creation and development; improving community knowledge of hygiene, cholera prevention, and prevention of HIV transmission; cleaning, upgrading, constructing water and sanitation facilities in schools and health centres; and setting up community early warning systems, establishing community disaster contingency plans, and establishing and training community intervention teams.

     

    IFRC DREF Operation MDRIN009 describes the allocation of money from the DREF to enable the Indian Red Cross Society assist people affected by floods in the state of Assam by:  providing non-food relief items, shelter items, and safe drinking water; mobilising National Society mobile health units to deliver health check-ups and health awareness activities; and constructing rapid latrines.

     

    IFRC Emergency Appeal MDRJM003 requests donations of cash and in-kind for the Federation to support the Jamaica Red Cross assist people affected by Hurricane Sandy, which hit Jamaica on October 24, 2012, by:  providing food, tarpaulins, mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets, household cleaning kits, hygiene kits, and jerry cans; constructing Safer Houses; retrofitting schools with hurricane resistant roofs; conduct violence prevention campaigns in schools; participating with Ministry of Health teams and communities to clean mosquito breeding sites; raising public awareness of how to control and prevent dengue and leptospirosis; providing psychosocial support; providing cash transfer for income generating activities; and implementing micro projects to construct dykes and protective walls in farms.  The National Society will also enhance its logistics capacity.

Predominant Language(s) (archives):
  • English
ARC Thesaurus:
  • Emergency Relief
  • Health
  • Floods
  • Storms
  • Disease
Parent Series or Subseries:
  • Emergency Appeal
Extent:
  • 0.02
Unit of Measure:
  • Metres
Accessible From:
  • 03 February 2026
Box Number:
  • Z001354
Shelf:
  • B0743
Location Remarks:
  • All documents printed from www.ifrc.org
Transferring Org Unit:
  • Library and Archive Services
CID:
  • 32684
ARC Copyright:
  • Copyright to attachments (documents), when these are available for archive files, is owned by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) or a third party. You may access and download the attachments, in whole or in part, for private, non-commercial research purposes only. Reproduction, distribution, publication, modification, copying, translation, or adaptation of the documents, in full or in part, is prohibited without prior written permission from the IFRC or the relevant third party.