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About Disaster Relief 
The people of Africa are constantly tormented by disasters. These disasters are usually in the form of droughts, hunger, floods and civil unrest. Unfortunately, the victims are, in most cases, not equipped to cope with the effects of disasters.
There are no real emergency services, proper hospitals or even community shelters in most of the areas in which disasters occur. These facts indicate only one thing … when disaster strikes, these people are on their own. The immediate needs of disaster survivors for food, shelter, clothing, medical care and medicine become the main problems to solve. Having a delivery system that can provide prompt short and long-term assistance to victims of disaster goes a long way in restoring a sense of normalcy in their lives. This can also be the difference between life and death. HHA has this delivery system. Through a wide-spread network of local churches, disaster relief committees and country coordinators, we are able to respond very fast, right there on the ground, and have an efficient relief effort in place with minimum dissipation. |