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TSF leaves Myanmar
Pau, 25 June 2008 - After 15 days in Myanmar, Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) faced an unprecedented situation and decided to leave the country. TSF’s requests for authorizations to deploy to the Irrawaddy delta were not granted and as the organization was blocked in Yangon, TSF’s teams returned to their bases.
On June 1st, TSF obtained its first visas to enter Myanmar following Cyclone Nargis which hit the south western regions of the country on May 2nd and 3rd after having waited for more (...)
Annual Emergency Simulation Exercise
As part of our regular training to be prepared for emergencies as well as to train in our new volonteers, TSF organised its annual simulation exercise on Thursday 10th April. This took place at an airfield in Lasclaveries, near the organisation’s headquarters in Pau and involved putting our emergency responders into a crisis situation.
The scenario was based on the Peru earthquake last August which had disrupted all communications in the country. TSF had then deployed emergency (...)
Mozambique Floods - Mission completed: 18 aid agencies and 1016 direclty assisted
More than 258 000 Mozambicans have affected by heavy floods of which over 100,000 living along the banks of the Zambezi River have been displaced. In Caia, one of the most affected zones, water levels of the Zambezi River are 3 meters above the flood alert levels and 28 cm above the peak flood levels of 2000/01. As a result, up to 17 re-settlement centers from last year’s floods were reported to be flooded. People who settled in these centers were moved to higher ground.
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Following the December 26th, 2004 tsunami, our emergency crews immediately mobilised to help affected civilians in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
In Sri Lanka, the 2nd most affected country after Indonesia, thanks to our partners and generous donors, we implemented longer term projects using ICTs.
Between May 2005 and May 2006, on the coast line, we have been able to run several projects notably in the areas of education and communication support for camp management
Thanks to our permanent presence in Nicaragua, TSF offers the possibility for teenagers to benefit from a first approach to computers and to the Internet. Our objective is simple: offer the same chance to all to follow studies or to find a job if their parents do not have enough money to pay for studies. Our programs are for teenagers from isolated communities (like in San Bartolo in the mountains of Northern Nicaragua) and for young people from poor neighbourhoods of the capital Managua. We teach them how to write a letter of application and a cv, to create an email address and search for information on the Internet. This also offers them an opening to the outside world. Similar projects were run in Sri Lanka after the Asian tsunami.
Using Satellite communications to strengthen Early Warning System in Niger
The difficulty to communicate information from remote areas in many developing countries, and in Africa in particular, provokes a lack of food surveillance of populations in the most vulnerable regions. This regularly leads to food shortages affecting millions of people every year. Beyond emergency situtations, satellite communications can also play a key role in prevention. Since June 2006, TSF is strengthening the Early Warning System of Niger.
