Video by James Buehler | Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center | 12.09.2016
April Whitbeck, a program manager at AFCEC’s European Store Front at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, took a volunteer trip to Uganda to help bring clean water to a rural village. Now, she’s laying the ground work to go back and further her work. Since returning to Germany, the volunteer team has tested several prototypes for filters to get the dirt and sediment out of the water before it’s......
Courtesy Video | Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet | 11.18.2016
Members of the USS Sampson crew provide fresh water, meals and other assistance at the Takahanga Marae in the town of Kaikoura. One team of Sailors visited residents to determine the level of need while others set up a food distribution center in an elementary school, and delivered toilets with self-contained sewage systems to homes without plumbing to alleviate the sewage issue. The area......
Courtesy Video | Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet | 11.18.2016
Members of the USS Sampson (DDG 102) crew assist in the town of Kaikoura. One team of Sailors visited residents to determine the level of need while others set up a food distribution center in an elementary school, and delivered toilets with self-contained sewage systems to homes without plumbing to alleviate the sewage issue. The area surrounding the town recently experienced a 7.8-magnitude......
Video by Cpl. James Trevino | I Marine Expeditionary Force | 10.26.2016
U.S. Marines and Sailors with Task Force Koa Moana 16-4 integrated with the Vanuatu Mobile Force to aid in renovating a clinic that was damaged in Port Vila, Vanuatu, Oct. 26, 2016. Marines teamed up with the VMF to renovate the clinic after it was degraded by Cyclone Pam last year. The Koa Moana exercise seeks to enhance senior leader engagements between allied and partner nations in the......
Video by Sgt. Jacob Smith | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South | 10.20.2016
Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command provided humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts to Haiti as part of Joint Task Force Matthew. By the time the mission ended Oct. 19, service members with Joint Task Force Matthew delivered more than 603,000 pounds of emergency supplies to Haiti in support of the U.S. Agency for International Development's......
Video by Raymond Sarracino | U.S. Southern Command | 08.09.2016
A brief look at the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance's disaster relief supply warehouse in Miami.
Video by Nika Ankou | USAID, Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs | 07.14.2016
Sisters Najlae and Rajae Lakchar have always been obsessed with cars, even though in their native Morocco, it’s rare to see a woman outside of a few traditional fields of work. Faced with serious challenges like high unemployment and lack of access to quality education, these girls are thinking outside of the box. With support from USAID’s FORSATY program, the aspiring mechanics have......
Video by Master Sgt. Robert Fluharty | 167th Airlift Wing, West Virginia Air National Guard | 07.05.2016
Members of the Army National Guard's 3664SMC operate a comfort tent in Clendenin, WV for residents to power portable devices and cool down in the A/C....
