Community Development Crisis Relief Humanitarian Works
2009 saw natural disasters sweep across worldwide. Trinity partnered with trusted local pastors and churches, and reputable missions agencies and organisations to provide humanitarian aid to the many affected. Trinity also sent Missions Impact Teams (MIT) to the sites of natural disasters to assist in rebuilding and stabilising efforts there.
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Bringing Help, Giving Hope Floods: a i d n I , l o o n r u K 500 villages affected* 2.5 million homeless 250 dead *Source: www.reliefweb.int
he floods in
could not
India, billed as
prescribe a cure.
the worst in 100
To obtain good
years, inundated 500
clean water would
villages, rendering 2.5
mean travelling over
million homeless and 250
a distance, one which
dead. In December, Trinity’ss
would endanger them of
n Humanitarian MIT arrived in
snake bites. Some of the
Kurnool, the worst-hit of areas to reach out with the
f few who tried walking
objective of boring wells to provide safe drinking water.
e ended by being bitten b snakes. by
After the flood, there was no safe drinking water.
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The villagers were hesitant to drink it. The ‘greenish-
Trinity saw the need and sent a Missions Impact Team
looking’ water contained chemicals from the nearby
to drill and complete two bore wells. The villagers are
industries. But there was no real alternative. Many
thankful and very happy that they finally have access to
became sick; one even became paralysed but doctors
safe drinking water.