Emergency Relief & Rural Health
Emergency Relief
The Philippines leads the world in natural disasters. Every year typhoons deliver destruction and displace thousands of families across the island nation. Asia America Initiative and local partners conduct emergency and long-term relief by providing food and water to thousands of affected families. We apply lessons learned from two decades of relief programs. We provide cooked meals, clean water, shelter materials, hygiene supplies, medicines, and ongoing post-trauma services.
Our long-term goal is the self-sufficiency of storm survivors across the region. Our immediate goal is to assist disaster victims by keeping people alive, healthy, and in a positive frame of mind and enthusiastic about building a better future. The long-term effect is to have a role in addressing the medical and social systems of impacted communities. Our strength is in our multiple partnerships with local, national, and international organizations. Our resolve is to keep communities together.
Due to the constant suffering caused by Natural and Manmade Disasters, AAI overcomes local feuds and by administering aid and comfort to families, by not favoring local hierarchies. This allows us to be effective citizen diplomats and social healers because people know we are listening to their concerns and understand their cultures.
In addition to storm relief and violent local rivalries, AAI seeks to overcome the lack of hospital clinics and sanitary birthing facilities. Working with nursing, medical and midwife training centers in the area, we provide donated quantities of medicines and antiseptics to sterilize medical equipment and promote healthy hygienic medical conditions. In 2024, AAI is funding the renovation and expansion of a Rural Health Center in a remote area of Sulu province. This singular facility has a treatment community of close to 1 million impoverished fishing and farming folks, who live on 100 islands in the Sulu archipelago.
