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

Why psycho-social?

• Expressed need not addressed
• When you are satisfied, your bucket is full
• The water represents your emotional well-being
• Trauma & shock can cause your bucket to start leaking
• Leak = Vuza (in Zulu)
• Vusa means to wake up & bloom (in Zulu)

Multi-phase approach

•  Readiness phase
• Search and Rescue phase
• Continued emergency phase
• Reconciliation phase
• Resettlement phase
• Reconstruction phase

Cost structure

• Voluntarism
• Donations in kind as far as possible (E.g. air tickets, equipment etc.)
• Remuneration for volunteers serving for longer periods
• Office overheads, training etc.

Who is Global Relief?

• Board of directors (see list below)
• Section 21 company, no. 2004/020715
• Registered NPO, no. 039-990-NPO
• Maintaining skeleton staff of volunteers

Outcome

• >170 volunteers were facilitated to respond to Disaster stricken communities in these countries
• GRf made a difference in the lives of hundreds of survivors
• Relationships and Goodwill formed

Board of Directors

Loffie Schoeman	-       CEO
Dr. Jean Simonis	-       Chief Operational Manager
Gnl Job Ngema – Chairman Board of Directors	-       Strategic Relations
Mr. Murray Louw -Founder – (Civil Engineer)	-       Assistant to CEO, Mobilizer
Mrs. Patricia Molageng – (Social Worker)	-       Networks
Mr. Teo Louw- (Consulting Civil Engineer)	-       Strategic Planner
Mr. Pieter Strobos – (Consulting Structural Engineer)	-       Engineering, infrastructure
Mrs. Christine Louw – (Film Maker)	-       Psychosocial, Research