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SITUATION REPORT: PAKISTAN, MONSOON FLOODS
September 1, 2010
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
The Government now reports that over 18 million people have been affected by the floods. The death toll stands at 1,667. Over 1.2 million houses have been damaged or destroyed. Floodwaters are receding in many areas, and though there are [...]

NEWS RELEASE: Global architectural firm Gensler donates design for Operation USA’s school rebuilding project in Jacmel, Haiti.

Operation USA and Honeywell announced today the ground breaking for a public school, Ecole Nationale Jacob Martin Henriquez in Jacmel, Haiti.

Monday, June 28th
Harmony for Haiti ~ A Benefit Concert

Featuring performers from Broadway, Recording Artists, and Grammy Award winners. A Silent Auction with high-end goods & services will be held prior to the concert at 6:00pm.
100% of the proceeds from this concert will be donated to Operation USA’s Haiti Earthquake relief efforts including the school rebuilding [...]

OSCAR-WINNING FILMMAKER BLAKE EDWARDS’ ARTWORK TO EXHIBIT AT LESLIE SACKS FINE ART GALLERY
June 8-26 Exhibit Proceeds to Benefit Operation USA’s Haitian Quake Relief Fund


Academy Award winning filmmaker Blake Edwards’ artwork will be exhibited at Leslie Sacks Fine Art in Brentwood from June 8 through June 26. This exhibition, entitled Lenses, will feature a selection of [...]

St. Damien is the only free pediatric hospital in Haiti. Run by Father Rick Frechette, an American doctor and community organizer who’d been working in the slums of Port-au-Prince for over two decades, he and his small team have also built an orphanage, medical clinics, alongside St. Luke’s, a network of neighborhood schools.
OpUSA has partnered [...]

Lives in Limbo: Re-Imagining Structures and Standards in Refugee Camps
Rockefeller Foundation, New York
April 2, 2010
This conference brings together experts in engineering, design, humanitarian programs, public health, and human rights to re-imagine the modern refugee camp. Based on Operation USA’s thirty years experience with refugee populations across the globe, the conference will center on the [...]

March 26, 2010—The USA Rice Federation announced today that Operation USA has been chosen as the beneficiary of $15,850 worth of rice purchased with funds donated during a monthlong USA Rice fundraising drive for humanitarian–relief efforts in Haiti. Operation USA assists developing communities in the United States and abroad in addressing problems relating to natural [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ENERTOPIA CORPORATION DONATES WATER PURIFICATION
UNIT TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF HAITI

LOS ANGELES, CA (March 22, 2010)—Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA announced today that Enertopia Corporation (Enertopia / Over The Counter Market: GLCP) is donating a solar powered water purification unit to provide a semi-permanent drinking water solution for thousands of [...]

Comunicado de Prensa:
EN VISTA DEL RECIENTE TERREMOTO DE 8.8 GRADOS
OPERACION USA MANDARA AYUDA DE EMERGENCIA A CHILE

LOS ANGELES, CA (Sábado, 27 de Febrero, 2010) – Operación USA, una agencia humanitaria basada en Los Ángeles, anuncia hoy que mandara suministros médicos a Chile como parte de la respuesta humanitaria tras la devastación del terremoto.
El terremoto [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OPERATION USA TO SEND EMERGENCY AID TO CHILE FOLLOWING 8.8 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE

LOS ANGELES, CA (February 27, 2010)—Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA announced today that it will send medical aid to Chile as necessary as part of the relief efforts following the earthquake that hit last night.
The 8.8 quake hit off [...]

On the one month anniversary of the January 12 earthquake, we wanted to share this letter from one of our local partners in Haiti– doctor and community organizer Father Rick Frechette. He and his small team have built an orphanage, medical clinics, street schools, and a pediatric hospital (St. Damien’s Pediatric Hospital/St. Luke’s Schools) that [...]

The outpouring of corporate support for Operation USA’s relief efforts in Haiti has been tremendous. We offer enormous thanks for the generosity of all of our corporate material aid donors.

Air shipments of essential medical supplies and personnel have been made possible by:

Ball Corporation
Honeywell Hometown Solutions
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc.
United Airlines
Medical, shelter and emergency supplies [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AT THE ONE MONTH MARK:
OPERATION USA DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS IN HAITI
ASSESSMENT FOR LONG-TERM RECOVERY PROJECTS BEGINS
LOS ANGELES, CA (February 15, 2010)—As the one-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in January passes, Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA announced today that its Haiti disaster relief efforts continue with additional shipments [...]

Featuring Hepcat, Dengue Fever, The Lions, Very Be Careful, The Tuffingtons and more
All proceeds donated to Operation USA’s relief efforts in Haiti

Operation USA is proud to be working with a great group of local partners on the ground in Haiti.

Current partners include:
L’Athletique d’Haiti
Hands and Feet Project (Jacmel)
International Medical Corps
Partners in Health
Project Medishare
St. Damien’s Pediatric Hospital/St. Luke’s Schools

Operation USA will not be sending volunteers to Haiti–yet there are many groups that will. With the large number of inquiries, we wanted to share these resources.

Operation USA flies first airlift of medical supplies to Haiti today, with donated jet from Honeywell

An initial airlift of emergency medical supplies, including large quantities of broad-spectrum antibiotics is slated to leave Los Angeles early next week.

On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake hit Haiti causing widespread devastation throughout the island nation.
Haiti ranks as one of the least developed countries in the world and is the poorest in the western hemisphere. According to the World Food Program–before the earthquake–more than half of the population lived on less than $1 per [...]

OPERATION USA to send emergency medical aid to Haiti following earthquakes. Devastation in capital Port-au-Prince.

Our youngest supporters, Zoe Lipscomb (8) and her brother Henry (6) launched a lemonade stand this holiday season, in support of OpUSA. They raised over $200 to buy toys for local kids in foster care!

Help make the holidays brighter for many throughout the greater Los Angeles area. Toys will be provided to shelters, clinics and group homes—bringing much needed cheer this holiday season.

By Richard Walden, Operation USA, Preisdent & CEO
This holiday season there are a number of ways you can donate to powerful causes in honor of family and friends that they would wholeheartedly endorse in lieu of a gift:
1. Water purification tablets to disaster-prone areas like Cuba, Haiti, The Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. Each $125 [...]

Situation report from Sumatra, Indonesia following earthquakes on Sept 30 and Oct 1. As many as 3,000 people might still be trapped under collapsed buildings. The number of casualties is expected to rise as search and rescue efforts continue.

Situation overview from Manila includes most recent updates on the arrival of Typhoon Parma, forecast to hit the Philippines on Saturday, 3 October.

Operation USA announced today that it will send medical aid to Indonesia following a series of earthquakes that wreacked havoc across the island of Sumatra.

Operation USA announced today that it will send medical aid to both American and Western Samoa as part of the relief efforts following the tsunami that hit yesterday.

Operation USA is preparing relief supplies to assist in and around Manila as they try to assist nearly 450,000 people in immediate need of assistance as a direct result of flooding caused by torrential rains caused by Typhoon Ketsana.

June 2009
Operation USA is the proud recipient of the Louisiana Primary Care Association’s annual Guardian Award for service to Louisiana’s uninsured and underinsured populations.
“As a staunch supporter of LPCA and the state’s Federally Qualified Health Centers, we would like to commend you for your efforts when natural disasters affected Louisiana.  Your organization was one of the first [...]

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PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ONLINE CHARITY FRAUD: EXPERT ADVICE
By Carly Milne

So let’s say you’re getting a tax refund – you lucky dog, you – and you’re on the hunt for a charity to spend your hard earned cash on. But you don’t necessarily want to go with something that everyone usually goes with, so [...]