European Disaster Volunteers (EDV)
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Target demographics: EDV works with disaster survivors worldwide regardless of age, race, or gender
Direct beneficiaries per year: 3,200 in 2010 - 2011
Someone who had 3 hours of volunteer time could: Volunteers are invited to use their skills to help us drive EDV forward. In three hours, your work could range from forwarding fundraising messages to helping us revise and update our website.
Geographic areas served: Worldwide
Mission:
At EDV we believe that to provide meaningful relief and reconstruction assistance to disaster affected communities around the world we have to do more than reconstruct buildings. We need to understand and address the factors that make a community vulnerable to the disaster in the first place. Our work will be organised with these factors in mind so that we can affect change that far outlives our presence. Furthermore, we will make this information available to all volunteers so that they will be empowered to affect positive, long-term change in their day-to-day lives as well as while volunteering.
Results:
Between June 2010 and December 2011, EDV worked in Port au Prince Haiti. We raised £137,000 ($221,492), recruited 190 volunteers who donated more than 51,000 man hours to complete 20 projects. Those projects ranged from classroom reconstruction to health care and education for earthquake affected orphans. Together, our projects in Haiti directly affected the lives of more than 3,000 earthquake survivors. To learn more about our work in Haiti, take a look at our End of Haiti report: http://www.edvolunteers.org/haitireport2012/#/1/
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