what we do
humanitarian aid
Scenes from recent floods in Bangladesh where MRDF partners have been providing emergency aid.
Images: Din Muhammad Shibly/RDRS-ACT International.
Forgotten emergencies
Media reports seem filled with humanitarian disasters, yet many emergencies go totally unnoticed.
A network of local partners and churches, best placed to know about less well-publicised crises, also enables us to respond to the 'forgotten emergencies'.
MRDF works through the ecumenical agency, Action by Churches Together (ACT), to provide emergency relief in places where MRDF and Methodist Church partners are not already providing aid.
As well as responding to immediate crisis, humanitarian aid is used to help survivors rebuild their lives and livelihoods again, ensuring that they are less vulnerable to disasters in the future. For example in Srinivasapuram village in South India, not having a road meant that many people could not escape the tsunami. MRDF partner Christian Weaker Section Development Society (CWSDS) used money raised in MRDF's emergency appeal to help build the village's first road.
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"This road is our joy. It was a great need for us. For a whole week everyone worked on the road, old and young, every family. We discussed it with CWSDS and when they promised the money it came immediately. So many people came and promised, but they are the only people who came and brought us relief and now rehabilitation too." Ramanaiah, Srinivasapuram village, Southern India |
