Children’s Blanket Label Disaster Healing Project

KEEPING HOPE ALIVE

Children’s Blanket Label Disaster Project

Project facilitated in 2006 by RenegAID™ Innovative Disaster Relief (renegaid.org) bonding
Pointe Aux Chenes Elementary school children on the
Mississippi River Delta south of New Orleans, Louisiana
with International Humanity Foundation children (ihfonline.org)
in Indonesia’s Bantul Yogyakarta, Jakarta, Medan, Petumbuk and Banda Aceh.
(Connecting children in disasters worldwide)

Acknowledgements

Uses resources within a disaster to keep hope alive
Balances the survivor’s need to give with their need to receive in chaos after disaster (individual sustainability)
Supports teachers in teaching values and reinforcing self worth through survivors’ acts of giving
Facilitates early bonding between survivors of major world disasters