MISSION STATEMENT
Operation USA helps communities alleviate the effects of disasters, disease and endemic poverty throughout the world by providing privately-funded relief, reconstruction and development aid.
We provide material and financial assistance to grassroots organizations that promote sustainable development, leadership and capacity building, income generating activities, provide education and health services, and advocate on behalf of vulnerable people. |
OPERATION USA RESPONDS TO FLOODING IN IOWA
Repeating its extensive 6-state Midwest flood relief work through its “Operation Heartland” project of 1993, Operation USA announced today that it would assist local health clinics throughout Iowa in replacing equipment and supplies lost to the widespread flooding. Funds permitting, Operation USA will make a series of small grants to assist nonprofit institutions in Iowa so that they can maintain services to flood-affected communities. Operation USA also has access to large amounts of seeds for small family farms affected by the flooding.
Richard M. Walden, President of Operation USA, said: “This catastrophic flooding will affect all Americans as the corn crop we rely on Iowa farmers to produce will no doubt be drastically reduced. We hope all Americans will join our small but well focused relief effort and assist local nonprofits in Iowa to provide services to flood victims, especially the children. Iowa can only add to what threatens to become a 'Tsunami Of Hunger'."
To make a donation to our relief efforts in Iowa, please click here. |
CHINA EARTHQUAKE
AID RESPONSE UPDATE
As of July 1, the death toll from the May 12 magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck China’s Sichuan Province, has risen to 69,172 people, with 17,420 people missing and 374,159 injured. There are an estimated 10 million homeless and/or displaced as people moved to avoid “quake lakes” and aftershocks. Over 9,000 children and teachers perished in the collapse of 7,000 school buildings. Thirty-six hospitals have severe damage or have been completely destroyed.
The world’s response has been very significant. The Chinese Government has been especially engaged in quake rescue and relief activities at all levels and tens of millions of overseas Chinese in dozens of countries have given generously to those in need through benevolent associations, directly to families and through many of the major NGOs.
A recent trip with the CEOs of 6 major US corporations active in China, the US Secretary of State and head of our foreign assistance program as well as the CEOs of three major US NGOs (including Richard Walden of Operation USA) was just concluded. The group, coordinated by the Business Roundtable’s Disaster Response Task Force, met with Premier Wen JiaBao of China as well as senior officials at the national and local levels to discuss the best way to provide American assistance to those in need in this disaster of unprecedented size and severity. Dave Cote, Honeywell’s CEO, stated to the Chinese and to the other CEOs on the trip that Operation USA is Honeywell’s preferred partner in implementing relief projects in China—following our successful joint efforts in Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan after earlier disasters. Honeywell is replacing schools and clinics destroyed in the Sichuan earthquake.
To contribute to our China Earthquake relief efforts, please click here.
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Contribute To Medical Aid For Myanmar
In response to the devastation of Cyclone Nargis, OpUSA receives a donation in support of medical relief efforts,
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HOW YOU CAN HELP
You can make a donation to our Myanmar relief efforts, by clicking here
or...You can purchase a Von Dutch "Spirit Of Brotherhood" T-Shirt specially designed for Myanmar Cyclone Relief efforts in partnership with Operation USA. To learn more, click here.
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 All of our work is guided by the principle of Smart Aid.
WHAT IS SMART AID?
- Providing aid through integrating an immediate response with long-term projects which are sustainable and mitigate the effect of future disasters.
- Working in places often overlooked by larger aid organizations and governments.
- Searching for challenges where few NGOs have experience, unafraid of highly politicized areas, and employing novel approaches
- Listening to communities’ voices to determine the best way to assist them, enabling them to become their own advocates in the wider world we live in.
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