In order to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, HOPE’87 cooperates with its long-term Austrian partner “Jugend Eine Welt- Don Bosco” ensuring a vital and efficient link with the Salesian fathers working in Haiti since 1936.
It is with great sadness that we have been informed shortly before Christmas about the sad passing away of our dear Uta Meran, retired HOPE’87-Kenya Branch Office Manager.
The Secretary General of HOPE’87, Robert Ottitsch, represented the organisation, which enjoys the status “In Operational Relationship with UNESCO” at the General Conference of UNESCO, 6th to 23rd of October, 2009. HOPE’87 cooperates since 1991 with UNESCO and especially with the Sector of Social and Human Sciences (SHS).
According to the United Nations almost 90,000 people have been driven from their homes by flooding in Burkina Faso. The country is one of the hardest hit by recent flooding in western Africa. Regionally, the floods have taken at least 160 lives and affected an estimated 600,000 people.
After the disastrous cyclone SIDR in November, 2007 HOPE’87 immediately started relief operations, which are successfully ongoing. By the end of June, 2008 HOPE’87 handed over 318 semi-temporary shelters to vulnerable families in Barguna and Bagerhat Upazila (district). The shelter construction is made in co-operation with local implementing partners and developed according to local needs.
