ACT works to respond as quickly as possible to emergencies as they occur across the world. One of the resources available to ACT members is a centrally managed Rapid Response Fund (RRF) to support members responding to small emergencies with up to US $60,000.
ACT members are responding with hygiene and water supplies, community mobilisation, campaigns and logistical support.
ACT member SAF/FJKM responds with health, food and non food items.
ACT member Church of Uganda assists displaced persons with food and non food items.
ACT members respond to both disasters with food and non food items.
ACT member LWSI is providing shelter, family household kit and essential clothing and sleeping materials assistance to the severely affected families.
ACT member will enable 2,200 worst affected dalit families to survive to the floods through assistance with food and non food items.
ACT Members in Tanzania will respond with food and non food items.
The ACT Forum members in El Salvador have identified the needs and are responding with food, non food items, shelter and various equipment and tools.
ACT member Church World Service-Pakistan/Afghanistan (CWS-P/A) will provide one-month food assistance to displaced families.
ACT members will support the IDPs who cannot access basic food items, drinking water, medicine and hygiene kits, as well as transportation within the country.
ACT member CWS P/A responds by providing one-month food rations and basic non-food relief items to 235 families in Gorja City who lost their homes in the attacks.
ACT member LWF responds to meet the immediate medical and personal hygiene nees of the diarrhoea affected and at risk communities of Dadeldhura, Dailekh and Surkhet districts of mid and far west Nepal.
In the morning of 8 July 2009, a fire broke out in the Birere/Mapendo quarter of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu province. 300-400 houses were burned to the ground.
ACT members will provide life-saving and life-sustaining assistance to 3,000 families affected by Cyclone Aila in South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal.
ACT members to assist 7,230 families with emergency food rations and water purification tablets and provide safe drinking water to 1000 families for 30 days.
ACT provide assistance IDPs arising out of conflict between Cambodia and Thailand along the border area with immediate food and non-food needs.
ACT to provide more than 300 earthquake affected families will be benefited with food packages, kitchen sets, blankets, tarpaulins and medical assistance in the earthquake most affected district of Sherzad, Nangarhar province.
ACT members provide life-saving and life-sustaining assistance to 2500 families affected by tornado in Rajkonika Block of Kendrapara district in Orissa.
ACT member response will focus on the health sector with the aim to reduce the spread of diseases and on emergency interventions in providing a minimum of food, clothes and shelter related items to the victims of the disaster.
ACT members will provide 809 affected households food and non-food and medical assistance over a four week period.
ACT members will respond to meet the basic shelter and non-food item needs of approximately 2,000 IDPs in Lui Diocese, Mundri county, Western Equatoria state.
ACT members respond to reduce the vulnerability of the most seriously affected communities in Manokwari and Sorong districts.
The state of Tamil Nadu was hit by cyclonic storm ‘NISHA’ in South India, since the 26th of November 2008. Under its influence, heavy rains lashed coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, taking the death toll above 120. ACT members will provide relief for 20,500
A cold front in Costa Rica has caused the rise and overflow of rivers, floods, mudslides and landslides. ACT members plan to provide food and hygiene kits to 500 families affected by the flooding and landslides.
Tamil Nadu state in southern India has been battered by cyclonic storm ‘Nisha’, bringing flooding and suffering to people in the coastal areas. Official figures report 2,426 villages and 800,000 people affected.
On 16 October, a tropical depression made landfall in Honduras and has severely affected northern, western and Southern regions of Honduras. ACT members plan to provide 1,944 affected families with food aid.
It is reported by the office of the Prime Minister and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that over 6,500 Congolese refugees have entered Uganda in the districts of Kanungu and Kisoro as a result of the fighting.
Since the beginning of October, Guatemala has been affected by the intense rains that have poured over the Central America region. ACT members will provide 517 affected families with food, hygiene kits and clean water.
ACT Members will respond to the needs of 3,000 families in 25 villages of Tamil Nadu state who have been affected by the floods, through provision of food and non-food relief items.
A powerful earthquake hit the south-western Balochistan province of Pakistan on October 29, 2008. ACT members will provide assistance in the form of food kits, tents and hygiene kits to a total of 4,000 people.
Fierce clashes between the Bodo and Muslim communities led to many people being injured and in several areas of the two districts police resorted to firing to disperse violent mobs. ACT Members will provide non food items to 2500 affected families.
ACT members support families flood affected Nepal. Members provide food and non-food items.
ACT members provide bed sheets, mosquito nets, soaps and cooking pots to flood affected population.
ACT members distribute food and non-food items to 2000 displaced families
Relief in the form of a food and non-food items provided by ACT members to 3,500 flood-affected vulnerable families in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa.
ACT members provide food for 500 people and non-food items for 625 families in flood affected Nepal.
ACT members provide relief items to individuals displaced by Georgia conflict.
250 affected families receive food, shelter and hygiene supplies from ACT members. 500 households receive plastic sheeting to protect against the rain.
Act Member distribute 400 food kits as well as water and non-food items to flood affected families.
ACT Members provide victims of Typhoon Fengshen with food and non food items.
ACT members distribute food through community kitchens for approximately 2,000 flood affected families, who have taken shelter in school buildings and embankments.
Act member provides 300 families in the remote Nicoya province with food aid and hygiene kits.
ACT members to provide flood affected families with food, household items, water, clothing and first aid kits.
Food, nonfood items, hygiene kits and water containers provided by ACT members to 100 families affected by earthquakes in Colombia.
ACT members provide assistance to 1000 individuals, mostly women and children, affected by violence in Johannesburg. Assistance includes water, sanitation and hygiene supplies, baby food and bedding.
ACT members provide non-food items and bed nets to affected to 1760 affected families, especially for mothers with young children and babies and pregnant women.
ACT members provide 2,100 food packages, water and medical supplies for 2500 people as well as temporary shelter for displaced families.
ACT members provide assistance to 1,210 families affected by floods in Bolivia, including food relief, non-food items and medical assistance.
ACT members respond with food and non-food items for earthquake affected families.
ACT members provide food, non-food items and hygiene products to 140 affected families
ACT members provide emergency food, clothes and heating items to 400 of the most vulnerable displaced families in Baghlan Province of Afghanistan.
ACT members assist affected communities through the provision of water, health, sanitation, shelter and community support activities.
Three thousand people were affected in Mazabuka District and 2,200 people were affected in Sinazongwe District. At the time of the assessment, indications were that 589 houses had collapsed in the two districts.
ACT members provide 540 families affected by the emergency with blankets, plastic covers to preliminarily substitute roofs and medical check ups to prevent diseases.
ACT members provide 992 families with food (rice, sugar, canned fish, tea, mineral water, instant noodles, vegetable oil); hygiene items and baby kits for 315 toddlers.
ACT members provide non-food items to most needy population affected by civil unrest.
ACT member, Servicio Social de Iglesias Dominicanas (SSID) will provide food rations and bottled water to last for two weeks to 500 families in the 20 selected communities.
ACT members in Bangladesh undertake emergency relief activities in the most severely affected locations in their own operational areas.
