White Helmets - Missions

Missions

The organization has taken part in the following missions:

  • Anti-Chagas campaign in Argentina.
  • Young volunteer training courses.
  • Containing forest fires in Brazil (1998).
  • Disaster management in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch (1999).
  • Humanitarian aid in southern Peru after the series of earthquakes in June–July 2001.
  • Reconstruction works in India after the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat.
  • Hazard management program in the Paz River valley in El Salvador and Guatemala (2003).
  • Humanitarian aid in Bam, Iran, after the December 2003 earthquake.
  • Emergency and flood control in Durazno, Uruguay.
  • Humanitarian aid to Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Peru and Bolivia after a number of different natural disasters in 2004.
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  • Provided emergency relief and humanitarian assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the USA.
  • Emergency relief on 2010 Haiti earthquake
  • Emergency relief to the victims of Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
  • Tunisia border after Libyan crisis per the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees request

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