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Setting up water tanks members. By May 11 it had managed to send the first aid convoy into the Irrawaddy Delta with well trained helpers, medical supplies and food. Birke Herzbruch, Malteser International’s Burma coordinator, says that the organisation’s long-term presence in the country has helped win the trust of the population on the ground and the trust of the government. Its offices are based in Rangoon, Burma’s former capital and also the scene of much destruction. Acting first in Rangoon, the organisation provided first aid and medical treatment and safe drinking water for 40,000 people in the poorer townships at the city’s outskirts. Labutta’s population has swelled to five times its normal size since the cyclone struck, despite the high number of fatalities. Over 100,000 displaced people have made their way there and have been housed in 53 camps. Malteser Effects of the devastating cyclone Nargis 40 SOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES AND OF MALTA
Emergency team review the day’s tasks International has sent doctors, nurses and engineers out to help. Two weeks ago it was able to airlift two water treatment plants into the region, which will keep 25,000 people alive with safe drinking water every day. The organisation has two emergency health stations in camps housing 12,000 people. In the long term, they hope to continue the Top priority: safe drinking water work in the region, help out in camps and eventually help people return to their villages or provide alternatives. Miss Herzbruch admits that they have had restricted access, despite a good working relationship with the government. “Initially we sent some people out without permission and were politely asked to please return to Rangoon. But now we have permission and we have people going down next Tuesday, a manager and a medical coordinator. At the moment we are working only with the staff which is in Myanmar. We need more staff. We are in the emergency phase, but we have been very fortunate to have an understanding with the government in terms of a logistical capacity and that we have well-educated national staff who have been able to be present in Labutta.” The Irrawaddy Delta is Burma’s main rice growing region. Cyclone Nargis has devastated not only the houses and the infrastructure, but has also destroyed the rice crops and fishing grounds. The United Nations predicts that relief efforts will have to last for at least a year so that the population in the delta region does not starve. In the meantime Malteser International continues to work tirelessly, doing the best it can under the circumstances. When our pregnant Burmese aid worker gives birth in July, her child will carry something of her parents’ genetic makeup in it; it is a source of hope for her and her husband. Anna Arco FOCUS 41
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Page 3 and 4: 46 78 Government Worldwide medical,
Page 5 and 6: Message from the Grand Chancellor a
Page 7 and 8: Four momentous recent events touche
Page 9 and 10: During his last meeting with Pope B
Page 11 and 12: Televised Bible reading With illega
Page 13 and 14: Archbishop Paolo Sardi pro-Patron o
Page 15 and 16: The Christian message is at the hea
Page 17 and 18: Pilgrimage A pilgrimage is a journe
Page 19 and 20: SPIRITUALITY IN ACTION 19
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Page 25 and 26: In all of the Order’s activities
Page 27 and 28: Treatment for the young_ is high pr
Page 29 and 30: From here, to Barqa, through mounta
Page 31 and 32: And then an afternoon visit to Jal
Page 33 and 34: The health centres_ Malteser Intern
Page 35 and 36: The Ndrele Health Centre has achiev
Page 37 and 38: “We cure the children,_ but it is
Page 39: Thousands swept away by devastating
Page 43 and 44: The 25 new arrivals are_ exhausted,
Page 45 and 46: One of the greatest_ problems for h
Page 47 and 48: The Order’s work stretches from n
Page 49 and 50: Austria Abruzzo The Holy Family Hos
Page 51 and 52: 2008 saw Austria host the Order’s
Page 53 and 54: is offered. In 2008, 1,800 first ai
Page 55 and 56: system. It is the country’s large
Page 57 and 58: Pope Benedict XVI visits the Order
Page 59 and 60: two in Northern Portugal, and a hom
Page 61 and 62: Americas T he medical work carried
Page 63 and 64: In Colombia, the Order has added tw
Page 65 and 66: through its work and support in the
Page 67 and 68: a home or parents who will take car
Page 69 and 70: The Order’s medical aid includes
Page 71 and 72: supplies to be used in a programme
Page 73 and 74: Asia - Pacific T he Australian Asso
Page 75 and 76: Following the Asian tsunami in Dece
Page 77 and 78: Malteser International support for
Page 79 and 80: The government of the Sovereign Ord
Page 81 and 82: Government of the Sovereign Militar
Page 83 and 84: The plenary session, Venice Confere
Page 85 and 86: 29.1.07 Brussels. The President of
Page 87 and 88: City State and of the Governorate o
Page 89 and 90: 22.5.09 Magistral Villa. The Presid
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The Order’s diplomatic relations
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sign a Frame Agreement in the human
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Postal Agreements From 2008 to 2009
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Emblems The Arms of the Order of Ma
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15,000 photographs have also been c
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Bailiwicks and Commanderies. The Or
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Costa Rica COSTA RICA ASSOCIATION P
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Portugal PORTUGUESE ASSOCIATION Pre
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Armenia H.E. Jean-Michel Oughourlia
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Equatorial Guinea H. E. Fabrizio Fr
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Mozambique H. E. Adalberto da Fonse
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Venezuela H. E. Silvio A. Ulivi Amb
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