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December 2010
20 December 2010
Extending inclusive approaches at Gradinita Rasarit
Since its inception in 1995, Gradinita Rasarit “Sunrise Kindergarten” in Bucharest has been pioneering inclusive education – setting up classrooms that go beyond simply “integrating” children with special needs, but rather designing curriculum, methodology and communication in…
5 December 2010
Cash for Work and a Green Future
An army of workers mobilize to reforest their dying watershed. They get paid too: people living in poor communities of the northwest Haitian Artibonite overwhelmed by the population influx following the 2010 earthquake.

November 2010
26 November 2010
India – Community Health Clinic
Abha Seva Sadan Multitherapy Charitable Health Centre (ASSMCH) located in Kashijharia village, Jharkhand State, has been offering treatment in Acupuncture, Homeopathy and Allopathy (Western medicine) since May 2005. Recently physiotherapy was added. In 2009, 11,035 patients…

5 November 2010
Kenya – Youth Hip Hop
Likoni Youth – Track 01 | Likoni Youth – Track 02 | Malindi Youth – Download Album

5 November 2010
Kenya: Sustainable Peer Educators
Recognizing that peer educator groups have a tendency to disband once a project ends or funding dries up, AMURT integrated income-generation activities into the mission of the Komango peer educator group as a pilot program to bolster their longevity. The group started small…

5 November 2010
Kenya – Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Read about Safari, Miriam and Boaz, three of AMURT’s success stories from Kenya

5 November 2010
Kenya – Soccer Tournaments Providing Opportunity
At the AMURT-sponsored youth resource centers so many activities take place, such as drama, rap, dance, volleyball, and classes in computer software and language, but it is the soccer program that has generated the most excitement and participation.

October 2010
23 October 2010
Răsărit Kindergarten – Newly Renovated!
This summer, thanks to funding received from the Autonomous Region of Bolzano, Amici nel Mondo and the Lanresa Foundation, Răsărit Kindergarten benefited from a major renovation. It now has a new roof, double-glazed windows, insulation, new tiles in the kitchen, bathroom and at the entrance,…

10 October 2010
Renovations financed by Bolzano Province and Amici Nel Mondo!
Extensive renovations successfully completed!
1 October 2010
Better World Program, Padang, Indonesia
AMURT & AMURTEL sent an emergency response team to Padang, Indonesia immediately after the earthquake in West Sumatra on 30 September 2009. After the initial emergency response period, AMURTEL identified a need for Early Childhood Development (ECD). Those children most…

September 2010
August 2010
20 August 2010
“Ray of Sunshine” program in camp for flood affected families
In August 2010, during some of the hottest days of a sweltering Romanian summer, AMURTEL Romania’s newly formed volunteer relief team, set up its first “Ray of Sunshine” women and children’s programs in a camp in Braila for families affected by the Danube flooding this summer.…
June 2010

23 June 2010
AMURT Earthquake Relief in Haiti
Following the devastating earthquake in January 2010, AMURT and AMURTEL set up “Child Friendly Spaces” for 3000 children in the refugee camps, managed 14 camps for 10,500 people an ran medical clinics and women’s programs focusing on post-trauma stress management.
8 June 2010
Newsletter June 2010
In this edition: news from AMURT Portugal, news from Haiti, the finger puppet project in Peru, and more…
8 June 2010
June 2010 Newsletter
In this edition: news from AMURT Portugal, updates from Haiti, the finger puppet project in Peru, and more…
May 2010
17 May 2010
Recognition and registration of AMURT as an NGDO in Portugal
We are very pleased to inform you that today we received the reply from the IPAD (Portuguese Institute for Development Support) / Ministry of Foreign Affairs – which grants AMURT Portugal the status of NGDO, under article 8 of Law no.…
17 May 2010
Recognition and Registration of AMURT as an NGDO in Portugal
It is with great pleasure that we inform you that today we received the reply from IPAD (Portuguese Institute for Development Support) / Ministry of Foreign Affairs – which grants AMURT Portugal the status of NGDO, under article 8 of Law no.…

14 May 2010
Relief to Displaced People in Haiti
Children from the Sitron camp Distribution and Relocation

14 May 2010
Addressing Post Traumatic Stress in Haiti
On March 13, the AMURTEL team went to the Sitron camp as part of an ongoing program to help people with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms). Many are experiencing PTSD, due in part to the many aftershocks that rocked Port-au-Prince regularly for months after the…

14 May 2010
Haiti 2010 Earthquake – Womens programs

April 2010

20 April 2010
Haiti 2010 Earthquake – Team and community

March 2010
19 March 2010
UN Secretary General visits AMURT CFS in Petionville Camp
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, made a one day trip to visit earthquake affected Haiti. Since the January 12 earthquake, the Petionville Country Club has been transformed into one of the largest camps for displaced people in Port-au-Prince, with…

18 March 2010
A Breath of Fresh Hope for Women’s Groups in the Camps in Haiti
With quick efficiency, the camp committee in the Sitron camp in Haiti announced our arrival for a women’s gathering. Soon the women were spreading large grey tarps on the bare ground, and to our surprise, a microphone and amplifier were waiting in the middle of the space. I…

2 March 2010
The Magic of Winter
Santa Claus has arrived, with the long-awaited gifts. This year the presence of Santa was a sensational one, as always. The children and parents were carried to the lands of the North Pole and listened to the stories about the children he had met before reaching us. Santa…

February 2010
January 2010
25 January 2010
Haiti 2010 Earthquake – Destruction and assesment

20 January 2010
“It is the small organizations that save lives” (Haiti Update, Jan 20)
JAN 20 (Lisbon) – In a local news broadcast in Asheville (USA), AMURT coordinator Dharma Russofav and Amber Munger (collaborator) spoke to the media from the UN base of operations.
20 January 2010
Visit to Les Cayes (Haiti, Jan 19)
Report of the visit to Les Cayes (also known as Aux Cayes), one of the affected areas, on January 19 (with photos):
19 January 2010
Photos from Haiti: Food Distribution and Destruction in the City
Newly arrived photos of the food distribution through the school operated by Ananda Marga / AMURT, and of the destruction in the streets of Port-au-Prince.
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