YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU), a unit of YAKKUM, was established in 2001. YEU is focused on disaster response and disaster risk reduction activities.

YEU has been assisting more than 150 villages in Indonesia, Timor Leste and Myanmar and is continually cooperating with a network of 350 organizations throughout Indonesia.

YEU and YAKKUM are members of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), which aims to broaden the scope of humanitarian activities and ensure their sustainability and accountability.

 

Vision

Survivors attain their rights to live sustainably and with dignity

 

Mission

• Building the disaster risk reduction capabilities of community-based organizations (CBOs) and other relevant stakeholders, as well as facilitating networking within CBOs concerned in disaster management issues
• Increasing the quality of our programs
• Developing the organization of YEU

 

Areas of Work

• Responding to environmental disasters with relief/recovery plans along with a long-term development strategy
• Responding to victims of conflict along with peace building across communities
• Protecting the rights and dignity of the victims