
Travis Betz, American Red Cross in Greater New York's Director of Logistics, with two children at Pangunggharjo, a food distribution site in Bantul Province on the island of Java.
American Red Cross in Greater New York's Director of Logistics, Travis Betz, is part of an international Red Cross team providing relief to survivors of a devastating earthquake that struck Indonesia in May.
Travis, a Relief Delegate for Bantul Province, is working with the Indonesian Red Cross through the International Federation of Red Cross/ Red Crescent Societies. Travis will be in Indonesia for one month.
The Red Cross is helping to distribute food parcels, tarpaulins for shelter, hygiene kits and baby kits to Indonesians affected by the May 27, 2006 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck near the city of Yogyakarta on Java, killing about 6,000, injuring 50,000 and displacing 200,000.
Contributions to the Indonesia earthquake relief effort can be made online by clicking here.