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Arapal Camp, Bogo, Cebu.
While assessing damage caused by typhoon Yolanda last week we were contacted by someone from Christian Relief Fund and international charity which also operates in the Philippines. They had been...
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Update on Philippines deployment.
Following is an update on Disaster Tech Labs current deployment to the island of Cebu in the Philippines; As of today we have our first people on the ground in Cebu. Our advance team landed there...
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December 4th 2013, Cebu Philippines update
Our advance team has been following up on the planning and communications we have had prior to their deployment. They have established direct contact with doctors at local hospitals in Cebu in order to...
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Please help us by donating your airmiles.
Due to our long term commitment to help the Philippines following typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, we have a huge logistical challenge of not only getting essential supplies, but most importantly, team...
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Philippines progress update.
Progress has been made but there is much more to do! Yesterday our Swedish volunteer Rickard departed for home and handed over the tech work to Eric who had arrived from the US the day before....
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December 21st Philippines update: Bantayan.
The last 9 days have seen our work in Cebu has seen a lot of progress. On December the 13th Sean arrived from Dublin together with a big bag of medical supplies. Sean’s primary task was to carry out a...
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Phase 2 Arapal Camp network: VSAT dish installation.
Just before Christmas last year Eric & Sean completed phase 1 of the Camp Arapal network. This consisted of the installation of an Aruba Networks controller, 2 wifi access points and a 3G router in...
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Increased Philippine participation in upcoming deployment to Cebu.
DTL has always strived to include local volunteers during our deployment. Having local participation has several benefits, it keeps our overheads down, it gives us increased local knowledge and...
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January charity fundraising raffle.
It’s time for our first charity fundraising raffle of 2015! This time we don’t have just one prize, we have 5! Goal Zero, our sponsor of solar powered equipment that we use on all our deployments has...
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Refugee crisis response update; expanding across Greece.
The recent agreement between the EU and Turkey on how to handle the refugee crisis has caused enormous upheaval. Refugees are now forcibly relocated to closed camps in the North of Greece where their...
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Ecuador earthquake response.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurred on the central coast of Ecuador on 16 April 2016. The epicentre was 16 miles SSE of the town of Muisne. As of April 24th 654 people have been killed, over 12,500...
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June 2016: Refugee Crisis response update.
As our refugee crisis response enters its ninth month is is time to share a summary of what we have done so far as well as our future plans. First some numbers; so far we have installed equipment in 9...
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Responding to typhoon Rai.
Super Typhoon Rai – with winds of about 195km/h (120mph) – sent some 400,000 people running for safety when it hit the Philippines’ south-eastern islands.At least 300 people have died, 500 people were...
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UPDATE: First military medevac from Ukraine.
While we have been involved in evacuating civilians from Ukraine to hospitals in other countries no injured soldiers had been evacuated from Ukriane yet. These soldiers have suffered serious injuries...
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Refugee Info redux 2022.
Back in 2015-16 during the start of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece we worked on an interesting project with a number of other organisations (IRC, Google.org and others). At the time we were...
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More medevacs from Ukriane.
We have been running medevacs from Ukraine for some time. First it was only civilains. Working together with Zaka, an NGO from Israel over 500 civilians were evacuted to hospitals and care-homes...
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New project: Aid-post in Reni.
Reni is a border town in South-West Ukraine. It’s located on the banks of the river Danube on close to where the borders of Ukraine, Moldova and Romenia meet. Due to it’s location the town, and more...
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Support Morocco’s Earthquake Victims – Donate Today! On September 9th, Morocco was struck by an unprecedented magnitude 6.8 earthquake, a catastrophic event that has left a trail of devastation in its...
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