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ACTNews, YOGYAKARTA – ACT’s Humanitarian vehicles were in standby at ACT
Yogyakarta Branch Office, Wednesday (11/11). The Humanity Food Truck, Pre-Hospital
Ambulance, 4 units of rescue cars, Humanity Water Tank, and 3 units of trail
motorbikes were ready to be deployed to evacuate and provide assistance to
evacuees in Mount Merapi.
The Humanity
Food Truck will provide free meals to the evacuees, and the Pre-Hospital
Ambulance will provide first aid and medical assistance.
Rescue vehicles
will be used to evacuate the locals to the barracks. The Humanity Water Tank
will be used to supply clean water to the evacuees.
ACT Yogyakarta
Branch Manager Bagus Suryanto revealed that these humanitarian vehicles would simultaneously
be deployed to the Global Volunteer Academy (GVA) in Hargobinangun, Pakem,
Sleman.
GVA is a
compound that was built in 2010 to accommodate thousands of evacuees during 2010
Merapi Eruption. The buildings are also used as a training center for
volunteers.
ACT plans to
re-use the building as an evacuation site should the number of evacuees
increases.
"The
evacuees currently need basic supplies like personal hygiene kits, mats, blankets,
and clean water," said Bagus.
Thousands of
Sleman and Magelang Residents have evacuated to the barracks as the alert level
of Mount Merapi had been raised to level III in the previous week. []
