🇺🇸🤝🇯🇲 On the ground. In the communities. The U.S. Disaster Assistance Response Team returned to Jamaica to assess how U.S. foreign assistance is supporting communities affected by Hurricane Melissa. In St. James, St. Elizabeth, and Westmoreland, the team met with families whose roofs have been repaired, visited evacuation centers, and reviewed health, water, and food support reaching communities. Working alongside partners including UNICEF, Project HOPE, and the UN World Food Program, the t

In 2012, The New Paper followed 16 men in their bid to join the Singapore Civil Defence Force's elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART). This is what they went through across more than 24 gruelling hours. Full story at http://bit.ly/2juEt3z | The New Paper

Catch “The Specialists” – a web series where we follow Home Team officers go through rigorous selection processes to be part of the elite forces in the Home Team. In this first episode, we follow SCDF officers go through a selection process to be part of the Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART). | Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore

111 reactions · 13 shares | Our Disaster Assistance Response Team has partnered with Myanmar Rescue Mandalay to truck more than 240,000 liters of safe water to people displaced by the devastating earthquake that hit the region in March. This partnership has served more than 7,500 people in need.  | Water Mission | Facebook

10K views · 376 reactions | Last Friday at about 11am, SCDF’s elite...