More info and fund raising ideas

The picture from Bantul area was taken by friend of mine from UGM network.
In the sixth days after the Yogyakarta earthquake, I’ve been gathering some information about situation and how the relief effort is has been done over there. Here is some updates

Bethesda Hospital updates
Last night, I’ve talked to Prapti and Endang regarding the situation in Bethesda Hospital. They said that the situation is has been improve in term of less chaotic. Some aid is starting to flow to the area and to the hospital as well. Medical team from France, Malaysia, Korea and Germany are come to help at the hospital. In the ‘normal’ situation, the capacity of the hospital is 432 patients; but now, there are 2230 patients in the hospital. In one day usually they do 8 surgeries, now they do 67 surgeries per day; and still at least 300 patients waiting for the surgeries. Most of the earthquake victims have a fracture cases. All the rooms are being used for the patients including meeting rooms, gym till the hall ways. According to Endang-the head of Pharmacy department- now the problem is the patients need better nutrition food after their surgery.

Yakkum Emergeny Unit
Along with the Bethesda hospital, YEU working to help patients in term of food and other logistics needs. Arshinta send me her organization information how to donate to YEU. For more story, you can check their website at http://www.yeu.or.id/disaster.php?id=a1d0c6e83f027327d8461063f4ac58a6

Fundaraising ideas
Beginning with the simple idea of helping in this disaster relief effort and the idea of ‘cutting’ an administrative cost of sending aid to the area that had been effected by the natural disaster; Some of friends in Vancouver suggested me to organize the fund to send to Indonesia; so I open a special bank account at Vancity Credit Union for this purpose. For friends who live outside of Vancouver and/ wherever there is no Vancity CU you can use my TD Canada Trust account. All the information I put in the previous post in this blog. The idea of sending in collective and directly to the local organization/individual that works in the relief effort are:
Minimize the wiring cost (fee) to send money individually; For example Vancity charged $20 per sending, and TD Canada charged $ 30.
Minimize or even cutting the ‘administrative/operational cost’ in aid distribution.

Acknowledgement
Thanks to Robin(Vancouver), Arla Monteigh (Wasa lake-East Kootenay) who are starting transfer the funds
Thanks to Shawna, Marlene, and Cynthia who are always giving support and commited to send some funds.
Welcome to some friends into this list .


Newspaper
http://www.thejakartapost.com/headlines.asp