GCH Team in Indonesia During Earthquake
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
GCH in Indonesia During Earthquake
BUENA PARK (September 12, 2007)- Giving Children Hope (GCH) has a team of five men on the ground in Indonesia. Founder and CEO, John Ditty, John Bibler, Jonathan Ditty, Mike Humphrey and Matt Gibbons left a week and a half ago to work alongside Giving Children Hope’s Indonesian office on Nias Island. Upon waking this morning and hearing news of the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that struck off western Indonesia, staff, family, and friends of Giving Children Hope were eager to hear news of the team’s safety. John Bibler’s wife received a phone call minutes ago and found the team is in fact safe and doing well amongst the excitement of the quake.
The GCH team brought 3,000 pairs of eye glasses to fit the Indonesian people as well as assessing our current micro-enterprise projects of bakeries and fishing boats and is implementing a new structure of our micro-finance loans. Yesterday, the team left for Teluctalam to fit children in rural villages for reading glasses and to take part in medical outreach. The team is expected home on Friday night, September 14th.
Reports are still coming in and Giving Children Hope is waiting to hear more before deciding how to respond the areas affected by the quake.
Founded in 1993, Giving Children Hope/Global Operations and Development is an Orange County, California faith-based nonprofit organization engaged in domestic and international poverty alleviation through relief, medical development, nutrition, education, and vocational training.
Information will be released as it is made available. For information on how to help, visit our website at www.gchope.org or contact our office at 714-523-4454.
Media Contact: Ashley Stinson Communications Coordinator astinson@godaid.org 714-523-4454
Giving Children Hope
8332 Commonwealth Ave.
Buena Park, CA 90621
GCH Team in Indonesia During Earthquake
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
GCH in Indonesia During Earthquake
BUENA PARK (September 12, 2007)- Giving Children Hope (GCH) has a team of five men on the ground in Indonesia. Founder and CEO, John Ditty, John Bibler, Jonathan Ditty, Mike Humphrey and Matt Gibbons left a week and a half ago to work alongside Giving Children Hope’s Indonesian office on Nias Island. Upon waking this morning and hearing news of the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that struck off western Indonesia, staff, family, and friends of Giving Children Hope were eager to hear news of the team’s safety. John Bibler’s wife received a phone call minutes ago and found the team is in fact safe and doing well amongst the excitement of the quake.
The GCH team brought 3,000 pairs of eye glasses to fit the Indonesian people as well as assessing our current micro-enterprise projects of bakeries and fishing boats and is implementing a new structure of our micro-finance loans. Yesterday, the team left for Teluctalam to fit children in rural villages for reading glasses and to take part in medical outreach. The team is expected home on Friday night, September 14th.
Reports are still coming in and Giving Children Hope is waiting to hear more before deciding how to respond the areas affected by the quake.
Founded in 1993, Giving Children Hope/Global Operations and Development is an Orange County, California faith-based nonprofit organization engaged in domestic and international poverty alleviation through relief, medical development, nutrition, education, and vocational training.
Information will be released as it is made available. For information on how to help, visit our website at www.gchope.org or contact our office at 714-523-4454.
Media Contact: Ashley Stinson Communications Coordinator astinson@godaid.org 714-523-4454
Giving Children Hope
8332 Commonwealth Ave.
Buena Park, CA 90621
