Austria

Our organization is cooperating with doctors from the Czech organization Hand for Help on building a quickly assembled hospital in Haiti destroyed by the earthquake. The 3 Hospital Units (a operating unit, a maternity unit and a outpatients´ department) will be built in the beginnning of March from portable polyurethane blocks (the hospital units will be assembled in just 2-3 days). The Czech team will stay in Haiti for 3-6 months to provide the needed medical care and to train the local personnel and then transfer the hospital to a local NGO or a government organization. The team will bring and install also a mobile water treatment facility powerful enough to provide drinking water for hundreds people.

More than 40 years of civil war in Angola came to an end in April 2002 with the historic signing of a peace agreement. Soon after, an urgent request to The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles was made to help strengthen the peace by sending humanitarian assistance to the country. Immediately The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles world-wide began sending large amounts of pharmaceuticals, medical and surgical supplies, food, clothing and more to Angola.

One of our most successful international projects was the Drawings of Love, through which 22,000 children from 30 countries send drawings and messages of affection, which were distributed to the thousands of children orphaned by the tsunami 2005 in Banda Aceh.

After the earthquake in May, 2006 we delivered thousands of Kids to Kids packs to the affected area in Yogyakarta, Bantul and Klaten. Ten thousand school packs with school supplies were distributed in partnership with Khalsa Aid bringing great joy to the children.

During the winter of 1990, when the Russian people were suffering severely from food shortage and economic hardships due to the political changes, the German people wished to express their gratitude for what President Gorbachev had done for them in helping reunite their country. The German, Swiss and Austrian branches of The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles began sending trucks with urgently needed food and clothing to Russia. This is how our worldwide humanitarian service began.

The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles is working with a dedicated Austrian national who retired to Nairobi to work with homeless street children in the country. His goal is to involve homeless or poverty-stricken children in activities that will give meaning to their lives. Towards this goal, 40 boys' soccer teams and 25 girls' teams have been formed. He also organizes soccer tournaments for the teams. We have supplied these teams with many pairs of shoes, soccer balls and other sports equipment.

Members of the Austrian branch of The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles have supplied significant amounts of athletic equipment for homeless street children in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

A 40-foot container sent from Austria in August 2003 included 210 computers and 105 monitors, as well as typewriters, printers, educational books and children's bicycles.

The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles organisation has worked closely with an organisation in Maputo, Mozambique which is seeking to increase literacy and schooling and giving people the tools and skills they require to raise themselves out of poverty.

Air shipments of toys, clothes and school supplies were delivered from Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States in 2003.

The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles Austria arranged for the shipment of antibiotics, assorted pharmaceuticals, three pallets of bandage material, surgery tools, blankets and tents to the value US$40,600 on January 21, 2005.