Positive People
Derna 26th - 26th June 2011
Organisation: Positive People
Name: Intitham Abduljawad Badr
Position: Founder
“A civil engineer by profession I felt the need to
set up ‘Positive People’ the aim of the organisation is to initiate activities
that have a positive impact on society.
Our organisation consists of 31 members. Activities include environmental
awareness, and since the events we have been focusing on relief work
concentrating efforts on housing and providing aid through housing food and
medical assistance, to the 1500 displaced individuals that arrived from
Ijdabiya.
The disaster management workshop has been crucial in helping me learn the concept of coordinating tasks and sharing resources in order to be as efficient as possible. I regret that these workshops did not occur earlier as tasks were not coordinated amongst organisations when housing and providing aid to the 1500 displaced. Every organisation raised their individual funds and worked on an individual basis there lacked coordination hence some efforts were duplicated or were lacking.
The setting of the workshops brought together at least 30 NGOs and we were taught to coordinate activities and tasks and prioritise our activities depending on our expertise. I think I definitely want to see NGOs coordinate tasks and activities or an official umbrella body that can help us coordinate tasks. I hope that as resources improve this can be possibly coordinated online”
