Last year during christmas period I discovered Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) / Communications for Life, a humanitarian NGO specialising in emergency telecommunications.
They were among the first organising help for the surivors of the terrible tsunami which devastated the coasts of 10 countries bordering the Indian Ocean last year. In just a few seconds, nearly 300,000 people perished.
Numerous areas affected by the tsunami were without means of communication for the population and the rescuers who were trying to reach them. Mobilised during the hours following news of the disaster, teams from TSF arrived in Thailand the same day, in collaboration with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) based in Bangkok, then in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. You can read a report of all the litlle miracles these people did here.
But that’s not all… Other than in emergencies, telecommunications can be useful for development projects, so there are a lot of solidarity actions out there where TSF helps connecting the unconnected to communicate with others.
You can donate here to support their actions, what are you waiting for?
Télécoms sans Frontières is member of the United Nations Working Group of Nations Unies on Emergency Telecommunications (WGET), partner of the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) and member of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA).
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[...] As last year, I would like to bring to your attention the humanitarian NGO specialising in emergency telecommunications, called Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF), also known as “Telecoms without Borders” or “Communications for Life“. Just as reporters or doctors of the same named humanitarion organizations, TSF is bringing the first aid communication infrastructure to catastrophy area’s in need setting up the basic elements to create communications networks. [...]