WEEKLY SUMMARY

Field Operations:
Our eye camps continued in Aceh Besar district and B. Aceh town benefiting a total of 601 people.
We conducted a distribution of 625 mukenas (prayer cloth for women) to women in the Neuheun camp.
Twice weekly English classes continued in Neuheun camp benefiting 120 children.
AMURT presented its prototype housing model to the UNDP sponsored Transitional Shelters Workshop.
Didi Hema gave a yoga class for 35 youth as part of the initiative of a local NGO called Education for All.
Our Jr. High School proposal was submitted to World Vision International.
Sister Soma prepared an excellent 20 minute documentary of AMURT/AMURTEL work in Aceh Phase Two (Rehabilitation).
A reporter from TIME Magazine took our interview this week.
We presented the Memorandum of Understanding to GTZ for the rehabilitation of the Neuheun brick factories for which we hope to sign next week.
We also submitted our three proposals for village rehabilitation to the Indo-Germ consortium of 24 German companies operating in Indonesia, with a view to procuring funding. Thus far our village rehabilitation proposals cover three villages in Aceh Besar. The total number of houses to be constructed is 101. The total number of houses to be repaired is 70. The total cost of the rehabilitation in the three villages comes to $US706,500.
A local women’s NGO, Yayasan Cut Nyak Dhien approached AMURT/AMURTEL for help for providing school uniforms to tsunami survivors who lost everything.
Didi Manika completed her survey of 6 villages in Aceh Besar district to ascertain the total number of children of pre-school age for the purposes of starting a pre-school for them in a convenient location near their relocation camp.
AMURTEL Malaysia organized held two press conferences for Dada Nirmalkrsnanandaji in Kuala Lumpur and Penang in which 9 major Malaysian dailies were present.

Overseas Support:
Both AMURT and AMURTEL teams would sincerely like to thank their overseas chapters in USA, Canada, Germany, Taiwan, Netherlands, Spain, Singapore, Malaysia, Denpasar, Jakarta and Medan who have all come forward to provide invaluable funding for our ongoing operations. Without your support we could not continue our rehabilitation efforts. Even last week more funds had come in from some of the above-named chapters!

Our Needs:
They remain the same as in the past weeks:
• Skilled carpenters, handyman, house builders
• Engineers: civil, water, structural
• Child Animators, Psychologists
• Midwives
• Office Assistant
• Cash

Note: Volunteers are welcome but for non-Indonesian speakers they must commit for a minimum of two months. In the case of Indonesian speakers they must commit for a minimum of two weeks.

Dada Shiilabhadrananda, Banda Aceh