QUICK RELIEF Public Benefit Organization
AIMS AND ACTIVITY
The Quick Relief Public Benefit Organization, that is, Foundation (GYÚK,
the Hungarian abbreviation) was established by the founders in 2001 with
the aim to promote the development of the domestic
system of disaster management and to participate in the mitigation of
damages caused by disasters to the population and the replacement of assets
destroyed, in cooperation with professional organizations acting
in disaster protection. To this end, it has established
cooperation based on a long-term contract with
the National Directorate General for Disaster Management, Ministry of
Interior and several local authorities. As the professional monitoring
service of the National Directorate General for
Disaster Management it is working on the development of a national monitoring
system.
In order to enhance the efficiency of social assistance and also, to
introduce a new type of public benefit activity the
Quick Relief Foundation collects pecuniary donations and aids and identifies
international sources for funding the tasks of damage liquidation.
Through offering the possibility of joining exactly outlined projects
the Foundation organizes the involvement of other
donor organizations in the elimination of the consequences of disasters.
An important mission of GYÚK is
awareness-raising related to the importance of charitable support actions
in the broad social public opinion and the development
of the domestic culture of humanitarian aid
and its presentment as a value. It participates in the development
of technological innovations supporting the tasks of emergency warning,
monitoring and relief and participates in the introduction of information
systems serving the up-to-date performance of social community
tasks.
In the operation of the GYÚK the public benefit
element is decisive for the support of which it carries out also
market, that is, business-like activity. Its public benefit tasks are
closely associated with disaster elimination
and the activity related to flood and inland water
protection, the assistance of the damaged population and the rescue of
values and replacement of assets destroyed. During this, the GYÚK
assists the work of state organizations acting
in disaster management and coordinates the relief
work of social organizations.
PRODUCTS
On the basis of experiences gained in flood activities and its international
knowledge obtained in the field of disaster management and demands formulated
by disaster management organizations, the GYÚK established
and has been developing its activity in an expedient manner. Thanks
to this, it is in possession of products or is able to organize production
thereof, which are needed on the site of disasters in a great mass and
which have always constituted, till now, the greatest shortage.
The GYÚK assists disaster management activities with several "public
benefit products", such as: food kit, bottled
drinking water, and sealable bag suitable for the safe storing of personal
assets and documents. All of this is packed, labelled and delivered
in a way, which ensures transportation to the actual needy. Food kits
make possible the temporary boarding of the population,
which remained without food supply provisionally. Kits - in the composition
of the content of which doctors and food experts participated - are suitable
for covering the daily food demand of an adult person. By the help of
bottled drinking water epidemical illnesses
resulted from the use of contaminated wells can
be prevented. The sealable bag has been tested
and proved already during flood rescue in Poland.
SERVICES
Beyond the meeting of the most essential physical demands the GYÚK renders
a further service which is needed in times of disaster at least as much
as bread and water - and this is mental support.
The Quick Mental Care Group (GYOLCS,
the Hungarian abbreviation) organized by the GYÚK, comprising skilled
psychologists and clergymen, assists the damaged who are compelled to
leave behind their homes, livestock and assets as well as the sufferers,
in the processing of mental blows hit them. In order to fulfil tasks the
GYÚK concluded an agreement on cooperation with
the International Education Directorate of the Ministry of Interior and
the Hungarian Baptist Charity Service. These agreements make possible
for the GYÚK to participate officially in the elimination and management
of the mental consequences of disasters. The GYÚK
has undertaken coordination, organization of the preparation of the participants
and the funding of the program.
During disasters, beyond the population suffering actual damage, those
participating in rescue are also exposed to great adversities the
bearing of which and the processing of the mental trauma experienced often
exceed the ability of people to cope. The GYOLCS
ensures for them and also for their family
members the use of organized mental aid.
As part of mental aid - in the summer holiday in 2001 - a so-called psychodrama
camping was organized by the GYÚK and conducted for the children
of families damaged during the flood disaster of the Tisza.
The scope of the public benefit activities of the GYÚK includes the support
as main organizer of the settlement of the
situation of the so called open-hearth slag houses
in the North-Hungarian region on the basis of a Decision of the Government
and cooperates closely with
the local authorities of the affected Borsod and Heves counties.
During the management of the problem which has been threatening more hundred
families with their houses becoming uninhabitable 93 families got new
homes in the first phase in a total of 23 settlements in the counties
Borsod and Heves.
DEVELOPMENT SUPPORTS
In order to fulfil public benefit tasks the GYÚK
carries out also a development activity associated with disaster
protection. Among this, the management of the introduction
and nation-wide installation of the IDEMS - integrated disaster
and emergency management system - developed for emergency monitoring and
alarming should be mentioned on the first place.
The monitoring system developed by the help
of the professional technical partners is suitable for the monitoring
of electronic signal systems on the whole area of the country or the region,
as well as for the reception, processing and transmission to an adequate
place of disaster signals and furthermore, for central data storing and
processing of information obtained in this way and for organizing them
in an inter active system and controlling them. The system, which meets
also the strict requirements of the European Union, can be used
both by state organs dealing with disaster
management and big plants.
Furthermore, the GYÚK supports on business basis
the development of different IT technologies promoting the fulfilment
of common social tasks and re-invests the profit of the business activity
in the funding of public benefit tasks. Of this, the MONA-System
should be mentioned which makes possible the electronic
transmission of information related to the sick (medical reports, radiograms,
etc.) among health institutions located at different points of
the country.
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