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Sewa International (USA) manages projects in India and the US. Sewa International is an umbrella for 45,000 projects and programs all over India, 80 types of activities and has more than 150,000 volunteers involved in running these programs and projects. With the support of NGOs with over 25 years of experience and the capability to develop volunteers from the local population has enabled Sewa International to sponsor and uphold a variety of activities all around the world, the majority of which are community based including healthcare, education, child welfare, and relief and rehabilitation for disaster victims. Sewa USA helps people regardless of caste, class, creed, color or religion.
Thousands of people are dead in Port-au-Prince,Haiti after a disastrous earthquake of 7.0 magnitude struck on Tuesday January 12, razing major infrastructure in the capital including many neighborhoods, the Parliamentary building, Presidential Palace, the main cathedral, the main prison, the UN building among others. With many hospitals in ruins (Doctors without Borders lost three hospitals) in this poor Caribbean country, the earthquake has affected 3 million people - a third of the country. Disaster relief has just began in this poorest country in the western hemisphere with 80% of the people below the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty. Two thirds of the labor force has no formal jobs.
