{"id":8583,"date":"2018-10-04T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?p=8583"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:44:15","slug":"adra-receives-air-support-to-help-with-ongoing-relief-aid-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/adra-receives-air-support-to-help-with-ongoing-relief-aid-in-indonesia","title":{"rendered":"ADRA erh\u00e4lt Luftunterst\u00fctzung zur Unterst\u00fctzung der laufenden Nothilfe in Indonesien"},"content":{"rendered":"

SILVER SPRING, MD, (OCTOBER 4, 2018) \u2013 As response efforts continue for thousands of affected people hardest hit by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake followed by an 18-foot tsunami, which struck the town of Palu and nearby areas in central Sulawesi in Indonesia, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has received air support thanks to Airlink<\/a>, a disaster response organization in Washington, DC, to assist with ongoing relief work.<\/p>\n

Airlink has helped connect over 80 relief agencies with over 40 airlines to receive fast and efficient flight services in response to natural disasters worldwide.\u00a0Airlink was able to secure airline tickets, free of charge, for an emergency response team from ADRA International to flights en route to Jakarta, Indonesia. Some team members will remain in Jakarta for a period of days, while others will be deployed to Palu.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ability to fly our staff members when other international humanitarian agencies are having an equally difficult time to transport anyone during the disaster is an immense help to us,\u201d says Mario de Oliveira, emergency management director for ADRA International. \u201cThe partnership is really making a difference in fostering care to devastated communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAirlink is proud to support ADRA in times of urgent need,\u201d says Airlink Humanitarian Programs Manager, Stephanie Steege.\u00a0\u201cThrough logistical coordination and our dedicated airline partners, we\u2019re able to move organizations like ADRA capable of providing the assistance needed in places affected by disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Partnership Begins \u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2017, ADRA leveraged a relationship with numerous humanitarian groups, including Globus Relief, Mercy Corps, ALAN, Airlink, LIFT, Rise Against Hunger and Lutheran World Relief to host a kick-off summit forming Partnership for Humanity<\/a> or P4H.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollaboration and coordination with partners is essential in creating a unity of response that best serves the impacted community and survivors,\u201d says Kevin Peach, a P4H coordinator. \u201cP4H engages cross-sector partnerships with organizations, like ADRA, that provide air, land, and logistics, sanitation needs, mass care feeding, and more. We not only have to see the need, but meet it, and that is what P4H does.\u201d<\/p>\n

The coordinated effort helped the relief agencies work on developing systems to improve logistics, airlifting capabilities, infrastructure and delivery of materials needed to streamline delivery of cargo to disaster sites around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring our response to Hurricane Maria, ADRA was able to provide relief supplies to St. Maarten and airlift cargo and relief workers with Airlink\u2019s help through P4H,\u201d says Alex Balint, senior manager for social partnerships at ADRA International.<\/p>\n

ADRA continues to work with Airlink to deploy additional emergency responders to Indonesia.<\/p>\n

Ongoing Efforts in Indonesia\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Days after the towering tsunami pummeled northern Indonesia, providing aid has posed a challenge to affected areas as problems of looting, raids, and limited supply of water arise. Latest death toll has soared to more than 1,500 people according to disaster response officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting clean water has been the main issue due to damaged infrastructure,\u201d Olivera notes. \u201cWater tank trucks are being arranged by local authorities, but there is not enough to go around for hundreds of displaced people as there is a huge shortage of fuel for transports to reach all affected.\u201d Oliveira adds there are also concerns of hygiene and sanitary problems, as well as limited use of power to communicate.<\/p>\n

ADRA is in talks with global partners and local authorities in Indonesia to help begin distribution of clean water, food and shelter items.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

W\u00e4hrend die Hilfsma\u00dfnahmen f\u00fcr Tausende von Menschen, die von einem Erdbeben der St\u00e4rke 7,5 und einem anschlie\u00dfenden Tsunami von 18 Fu\u00df betroffen sind, der die Stadt Palu und nahe gelegene Gebiete in Zentralsulawesi in Indonesien heimsuchte, weitergehen, hat die Adventistische Entwicklungs- und Hilfsorganisation (ADRA) dank Airlink, einer Katastrophenschutzorganisation in Washington, D.C., Luftunterst\u00fctzung f\u00fcr die laufenden Hilfsma\u00dfnahmen erhalten.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[780,834,11],"tags":[6,24,7,1138,432],"class_list":["post-8583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-indonesia","category-press-release","tag-disaster-relief","tag-disaster-response","tag-earthquake","tag-partner","tag-tsunami"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8583"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48734,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions\/48734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}