Donate
Latest News

Tuesday, 19 January 2010 20:23

 

 
Deployed relief team reported in much concern on fragmented road conditions with biggest obstacle lying ahead in distributing the supplies donated worldwide; the possibility of massive riots angered with whole delay of distribution process.
Already reaching two hundred thousand of death tolls, sluggish handling on corpses with sweltering weather only makes the air worse, burdening epidemic outbreak worries.   
Especially worried are children and aged with weak immune systems in constant exposure to malnutrition and contaminated atmosphere.
Byung Hee Lee, the director of emergency relief of Good Neighbors in the field reported, “Diarrheal disease is rapidly spreading and without urgent quarantine control and sanitation, the condition here is at high risk”
 
Good Neighbors made a decision for further deployment of supplies and cash of total 400,000USD following the previous 100,000USD, with another emergency relief team for site investigation and logistics on 18th of January. Medical practitioners are planned to be deployed on 20th (Wednesday) with most urgent ‘quarantine specialist’ to be sought provided locally for quick respond.
 
Good Neighbors is recruiting volunteering doctors and nurses who can contribute minimum 3 weeks in Haiti.
For any support including medical aid, donations and supplies please call us
@1-877-499-9898.  
 

 

Monday, 18 January 2010 13:54

Full scale emergency relief is imminent

With an estimated 200,000 dead in Haiti, the Good Neighbors emergency team arrived at the ground zero, earnestly providing relief as the first of the Korean NGO groups.

 

Emergency relief, as the term implies, saves lives and provides life-sustaining help for people to return to their normal daily lives. During this period, highly trained professional teams are essential to distributing relief supplies and systematically providing relief activities efficiently.

 

January 16th at 2 am (local time 15th, 1pm), the first wave of Good Neighbors emergency relief teams arrived at Santo Domingo, capital of Dominica Republic, completing NGO registration with OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) for emergency relief. The evening of 16th (local time 16th early morning), the team drove from Dominica Republic over the border line to the Port-au-Prince launching site for the emergency relief.

 

The area is currently in desperate need of supplies, including food, clean water and medicine. However, no efficient distribution of any item is under way due to the paralysis of government administration. Good Neighbors is hoping to find more efficient relief solution through the local network in coordination with UN troops, agencies, Haiti local police and local NPOs.

  Read more...

Thursday, 14 January 2010 13:39

Embark on Haiti Emergency Relief

 

 

In the wake of the worst earthquake in 240 years, Haiti is in chaos after a destructive 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

Infamous for the ‘mud cookie,' (baked mud eaten and sold by locals to stave off hunger pangs) Haiti is one of the poorest countries in Central America with 50% of the 9 million people population surviving on less than one dollar a day. The already poor infrastructure conditions worsened with the earthquake damage, with an estimated death toll already reaching a hundred thousand victims, and expanding to a third of the entire population.

“Little childrens' corpses are left beside school wreckage and wounded people wander around shed with blood,” The Associated Press reports. “Doctors are treating patients in hotel parking lots, wrapping peoples' heads and suturing rib cages."

Good Neighbors is a nonprofit organization mainly with specialty in emergency relief with 20 years of experience including activity during Rwanda Genocide. For the Haiti catastrophe, Good Neighbors is deploying an emergency relief team, with the assignment of Byung Hee Lee as team captain, who is one of the leading emergency relief experts from Korea who also served as team captain during disasters in the 2003 Iran Bam earthquake and the 2005 Pakistan earthquake. Good Neighbors is planning to initialize Haiti emergency relief with an estimated 100,000 USD, including providing shelter and medical aid, food and beverage, which is mostly needed by the people in Haiti, especially selecting locations with many children and pregnant women, providing nutrient supply program for them with further plan for second medical supply deployment.

For any support and donations for the Haiti Earthquake, Please send a check to:

Good Neighbors USA
P.O. Box 31758
Los Angeles, CA 90031 

We are also recruiting doctors in medicine (internal, external, pediatric, obstetrics), pharmacists, short-term missionaries and volunteers. Please call us at 1-877-499-9898 for any other help, including medical supplies and donation from churches and organizations.

Read more...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 13:46

My Journey to Guatemala

 

John Marh
Volunteer to Guatemala, GN USA
 

As I stepped out of the car, the unfamiliar atmosphere overtook me, as would a sudden heat wave. I stood without motion as the foreign extremities of poverty flashed before my eyes. For a moment, I struggled to take it in this unbelievable scenario: the old and beaten buildings, the uneven pavement, the stray dogs, and the wandering children in ragged and dirtied clothing. It seemed that the world was filled with God’s misfortunate children.

Read more...

Friday, 07 August 2009 09:24

ProClub Donates 500 Shirts

In a show of generosity, the clothing manufacturer Pro Club donated five hundred shirts to the Good Neighbors USA office.

Read more...
[previous], 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, [next]
Archive
2010 July
2010 June
2010 May
2010 March
2010 February
2010 January
2009 August

next »
Phone : (877) 499-9898 Fax : (877) 499-4565 Email : gnusa@gnusa.org
Good Neighbors USA
P.O. Box 31758
Los Angeles, CA 90031, USA
® Copyright 2009, Good Neighbors, All Rights Reserved.