Global Relief’s vision:

• That surviving communities of disasters take ownership of their own emotional and physical reconstruction and reach out to others
• Vuzavusa (Vuza: leak, mourn; Vusa: rise up, blossom)

Global Relief’s mission:

• To respond speedily to requests from selected disaster-stricken communities by sending skilled people and resources at short notice.
• To continue relief efforts beyond the initial Search-and-Rescue phase, empowering the affected communities to take ownership of their own reconstruction.

Global Relief’s role:

• Facilitating professional volunteers to empower disaster-stricken communities to take ownership of their own physical and psycho-social reconstruction.
• To continue relief efforts beyond the initial Search-and-Rescue phase, empowering the affected communities to take ownership of their own reconstruction

Multi-disciplinary approach:

• Psycho-social
• Search & Rescue Support
• Medical and paramedical
• Engineering – structural, water, civil
• Institutional/Organizational

What we do

Global Relief (GRf) is a South African based relief organization that facilitates professional and other volunteers to assist the survivors of major disasters around the world and empower the affected communities to take ownership of their own reconstruction.
Since 1999 groups of volunteers like doctors, nurses, pharmacists, psychiatrists, psychologists, civil and structural engineers, teachers and other experienced trauma mitigation workers assisted disaster survivors in many countries. We worked in Turkey, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, India, Sri Lanka, Haiti, Mozambique, Thailand, Indonesia, Lebanon, Jordan Maldives and South Africa.
Our medical volunteers provide medical treatment and our civil and structural engineers inspect buildings to determine their safety. Our psychosocial workers are trained to help survivors deal with the emotional trauma of a disaster.
GRf is a volunteer organization. We rely heavily on donations from the public in order to continue providing these emergency services. Click here to make a secure online donation towards our emergency fund.
To sensitize GRf to local culture and beliefs, we work in co-ordinated collaboration with local governments and compatible in-country groups where possible.
• To address expressed needs.
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• Severe trauma can lead to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD. This can be prevented with oversight by both GRf and Local Psychiatrists and Psychologists.
• We are preparing to assist people in Turkey and Syria, after the devastation left by the 2023 earthquake. Please view new posts on our current page (Haal asb uit)
• Section 21 company, no. 2004/020715/08
• Registered NPO, no. 039-990-NPO
• Maintaining skeleton staff of volunteers

Key Role Players

Gnl Job Ngema Chairman of the Board ex Boeing Pilot – Strategic Relations
Mr. Murray Louw -Founder and Board Member, Strategic Advisor– (Retired Civil Engineer)–
Mr. Pieter Strobos, Pr Eng, Consulting Civil, Structural and Mining Engineer: – Building Safety Advisor.
Prof Dr. Jean Simonis– Operational Disaster Manager Water Purification Specialist
Mrs Christine Louw – Co-Founder Psychosocial, Research and Training
Mr Neels Wolmarans – Accountant

Outcome

• More than 200 volunteers were facilitated to respond to Disaster stricken communities in these countries
• GRf made a difference in the lives of thousands of survivors
• Trained and equipped hundreds of disaster-stricken teachers and community leaders
• Relationships and Goodwill formed