NEWS RELEASE: Operation USA Prepares Medical Aid in Response to Earthquakes in Indonesia
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 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.
Dedicated to working with poor in rural areas, Mekong Plus’ programs include livelihood training, microcredit, education and health care.
Cyclo drivers are some of the most vulnerable people in Phnom Penh, often living/sleeping on the streets while supporting their families in the provinces. The Cyclo Center provides a variety of services to these individuals at risk.
A program for culturally ostracized HIV+ women and their children, providing skill training, health care and more.
On May 3, 2008 Cyclone Nargis, a category 4 cyclone, hit the Irrawaddy delta region of Myanmar. Operation USA worked to provide medical supplies for populations not being reached by other humanitarian aid.
LOS ANGELES (May 8, 2008)–Los Angeles based Operation USA has deployed staff already stationed in Asia to assess the needs of what is now an estimated 7 million people affected by the recent cyclone which destroyed or devastated wide swaths of Burma (aka Myanmar), especially in or near Yangon (formerly the capital Rangoon) and throughout [...]
In 2008, named the
“#1 Exclusively Privately Funded Charity”
by Charity Navigator.
Co-recipient of the
1997 Nobel Peace Prize as part of “The International Campaign to Ban Landmines”