{"id":328562,"date":"2016-09-19T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/emergency-aid-in-response-to-ecuador-earthquake\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:05:06","slug":"emergency-aid-in-response-to-ecuador-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/emergency-aid-in-response-to-ecuador-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency aid in response to Ecuador earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ecuador__Jose_Jacomor_EEE_EEP1\"As the news media reported, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Ecuador<\/strong> on April 16, especially the provinces of Manabi, Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo and Pichincha, leaving nearly 30 people without a roof.<\/p>\n

The Focolare Movement<\/a> immediately got to work in many ways: beginning from the early relief efforts with the many spontaneous volunteers, and morning on to a large-scale fundraiser coordinated by AMU<\/a> and AFN<\/a>. Meanwhile a local commission<\/a> was set up to identify the main priorities for the relief effort and to coordinate over a long term. They write from the commission: \u201cIn the past months several of us have gone to visit the different sites of the earthquake, meeting with the communities and seeking to collaborate with agencies that had similar goals. By the end of August the first proposals were ready and we began to collaborate with the Ecuadoran Popolorum Progressio Fund (FEPP) and the Fundaci\u00f3n Amiga<\/em>.\u201d \"20160919-01\"<\/strong>At this stage, the post-emergency interventions that were deemed most serious regarded the production of goods that could be sold and provide economic support for the local populations, and psychological support in overcoming the trauma which \u2013 as they write \u2013 \u201cis still very quite strong after 5 months.\u201d They also underscored another important point: \u201cWe saw the need to offer training in the procedure for applying for assistance from the Ecuador Government for the reconstruction of housing. At first, relief efforts concentrated on three localities, all located in the Province of Esmeraldas: Salima, \u201c10 de Agosto\u201d and Macara, \u201cwhere projects will carried out to alleviate the consequences of trauma and to reinforce the organizational skills of the community,\u201d they explain. \u201cMoreover, a cooperative bread bakery and a training course in making fishing nets, involving the elderly fishermen as trainers. In the locality known as \u201c10 de Agosto\u201d, handicraft workshops will be held and a group of mothers will be helped in setting up a nursery.\u201d The local commission writes: \u201cthis represents the first stage of the project, which corresponds to current funds. As we work with the community, we\u2019ll delve more deeply into the future needs of the people and be able to respond to them. As of today:<\/strong> \u20ac 35.502 have been donated by AMU for the Ecuador emergency, \u20ac 10.000 of which have already been paid out, whereas the sum of \u20ac 10.000 has been donated to the cause by AFN (Action for New Families). Read earlier news: –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ecuador Emergency<\/a> –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two months after the Ecuador earthquake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following immediate relief efforts, the first long-term interventions are begun by the Focolare\u2019s United World Association (AMU) and the New Families Association AFN, in favour of Ecuadorian populations that have been affected by the earthquake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}