SUMBER REZIKI FIRST AID BOAT IN CALANG

Lee from IDEP has just been talking to Sam on Sumber Reziki. TNI forces are working hand in hand to unload the boat and get aid to traumatized survivors. Calang had a population of 15,000. There are 6,000 confirmed dead 4,000 missing and 2,000 in a makeshift camp. There are several thousand people who are camped in the mountains and hills and who will only venture down to the coast to search for food.

Most of the survivors are traumatized and health conditions are critical.

People are very hungry and some are showing signs of malnutrition. Diarrhea and skin infections are rife. There are some foreign medical teams working in the town but drugs for these problems are exhausted.

Sumber Reziki is the first boat to get supplies into the area and the Bupati and the troops are extremely relieved to see them. So much more is needed:
• Dried fish, high protein foods
• Tarps and shelter materials
• Water storage and jerry cans + water treatment chemicals
• Tools

Resupply for Sumber Reziki (pictured below) is proving very difficult.