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Baptist World Aid (BWAid), the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, is committed to working with Haitian Baptists following yesterday's earthquake.
BWAid has committed emergency grants of $10,000 each to the Baptist Convention of Haiti and the Haiti Baptist Mission. BWAid will also be launching an appeal for funds to enable relief to be provided to all.
Baptist Relief agencies from North America, and further afield are considering how best they can help. Two representatives of BWAid's Rescue24 team of first responders from Hungary, are en-route to Haiti. They will be linking up with North Carolina Baptist Men according to BWAid Director, Paul Montacute.
Updates on the situation will be given as regularly as possible.

As the six-member RESCUE 24 Team in North-Carolina, USA is fully prepared to leave for Haiti, two Hungarian Baptist Aid experts left at noon today for the scene of the devastating earthquake. They plan to join their fellow American and Australian teams.
If there is a possibility to get close to the center of the disaster, than the Rescue24 International Search and Rescue Team will be able to provide help for the victims of the earthquake.

70 homelesses were invited for a fancy dinner at five stars Hotel Meridien from the Homeless shelter of the Hungarian Baptist Aid.

Bac Giang, Vietnam – 2009.11.26.

As a result of their course in the framework of the FLAME program, eighty Vietnamese experts received their diplomas yesterday evening. The several months theory and practical course ended with a final exam. After the successful exams, seven of them received an excellent and several received a good marked diploma. The ceremony was attended by high-officials as well. Among them was the regional president but also the Hungarian ambassador, László Vizi.

Famous singer Magdi Rúzsa visited Europe’s probably poorest place with television reporter Vujity Tvrtko, where she was jury in a slum next to Mukachevo. „Slum Star” is a competition based on an idea of a young man, who entered the same talent competition as Magdi did, and who was called back, but he had no money for his visa to go back to the competition.

7th October, 2009

The Hungarian Baptist Rescue24 Team has returned to home from the typhoon and earthquake - struck Indonesia. The rescue team with sniffer dogs arrived by a private plane at Budapest Ferihegy Airport.

4th October 2009

Joined by a doctor and two paramedics from North Carolina, the international Rescue24 team, that consists of volunteers from Hungary, USA and Singapore, has completed its second day among the victims of typhoon and flood of Manila.
The medical team has assisted 117 sick and needy persons in the past two days, with the worries of a second typhoon hanging over their heads. As the floods mostly effected the poorest of the poors, the places and the stories, where patients are coming from, are heart breaking. Many had to leave shanty houses that shortly after were taken by the flooding river with all their posessions inside. Many were afraid to leave, rather risking another typhoon in their homes that have become life threatening. Today we met a 3 year old little boy who had to walk in to shoulder reaching water to find something in the room that serves as the living space of the entire family.

Chance of finding survivors in Sumatra decreases day by day. At 4 pm local time questing for survivors was officially suspended in city of Padang. Questing will be continued in the countryside. Hungarian Baptist Aid Rescue24 Team were questing for survivors in a village destroyed by landslide in the North.

Hungarian rescue teams have just arrived to Padang, Sumatra on Saturday morning. Workers of Hungarian Baptist Rescue 24 removed the load from the private airplane. Their headquarter is in a leisure centre, six kilometres far from the airport.

Hungarian Baptist Aid medical team has just arrived to the spot and just started working in Manila. Streets are moulded, water is tainted. Local people have started restoring their homes, meanwhile they are prepared to the next typhoon. They hope that the storm, having a strenght of Katrina hurricane will not hit them.