Operation USA February 2007 Newsletter

Women Helping Women: South Asians in the U.S.
Mobilize and Advocate For Relief & Development Aid

The West Coast "Shantham" Women's Group meets
with OpUSA to discuss refugee relief and fundraising ideas

For over 27 years, Operation USA has supported women and their children who shoulder the burdens of poverty, natural disaster and war. Since the Tsunami in 2004, Operation USA has been aiding Sri Lankan women to rebuild their devastated communities. Now, in light of renewed political violence in their home country, Sri Lankan women across the United States have begun to mobilize and advocate for women and children everywhere. To learn more about their efforts and Operation USA’s involvement, please click here.

Sri Lankan refugee children welcome Operation USA staff visitors with flowers.
Children in a Sri Lankan displaced persons camp

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Operation USA donor, Brother's Brother Foundation preps shipments at their warehouse.
Donor Spotlight:
Brother’s Brother Foundation

Operation USA has provided over $250 million worth of medicines and materials to international and domestic disaster areas since 1979 thanks to our generous donors. Among these is the Brother’s Brother Foundation which has been supplying Operation USA with emergency relief materials for over twenty years. To learn more about this significant donor, click here.

Operation USA Emergency Response in The Philippines

Operation USA often depends on reliable partners to provide emergency assistance and effectively aid communities in the wake of natural and man made disasters. When Typhoon Durian hit the Philippines on November 30, 2006, Operation USA immediately identified Australian Aid International as an on-site partner and through them delivered vital emergency medical supplies to mobile clinics offering life saving health care to hundreds of people affected by this disaster. Click here to read more about this partnership and response to the typhoon.

AAI Disaster Response Team triage and organize hundreds of patients in need of medical assistance from Typhoon Durian at an evacuation center.

AAI Disaster Response Team triages and organizes hundreds of patients in need of medical assistance
at an evacuation center.

Despite Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis in Sri Lanka,VISIONS Continues to Affect the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

In the face of tsunami destruction and ongoing civil conflict, Sri Lanka based organizations are working hard to make a difference in the lives of the youth affected by such devastation. One such organization is VISIONS, a group that Operation USA is sponsoring to empower and educate disadvantaged Sri Lankan youth. Through leadership camps and scholarship programs as well as the projected construction of a Learning Center, VISIONS is working tirelessly to provide Sri Lankans with a chance to better their own community. To read more about this powerful organization, click here.

Two VISIONS dance scholarship students are congratulated on their debut performance. .
Kumari Thevaki K. and Sulogini K, two of VISIONS' first dance scholarship students, celebrate their debut performance. Both girls were selected to receive scholarships based on their perseverance and talent.