Roger Sandberg

Roger is currently the Haiti Country Director for Medair, a Swiss based emergency relief and rehabilitation humanitarian aid organization responding to the Haitian earthquake. For the past 10 years, Roger has worked throughout East and Central Africa. While in Africa, Roger was the Country Director for projects in Sudan and DR Congo and traveled extensively within these countries to assess and meet humanitarian relief needs. In Southern Sudan, Roger managed a team of over 200 International and African aid workers serving close to 300,000 beneficiaries with emergency responses in Health and Water/Sanitation in the chronic complex situation that is Southern Sudan. Roger has been serving in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake.

Restorers

Relief and Redevelopment

With natural disasters looming as a constant yet unforeseeable threat in our own land and to our global neighbors, how can we best participate in long-term recovery? In this presentation, Roger Sandberg, Vice President of Medair International, will help us chart out the difference between rescue, relief and redevelopment efforts and give us a scope for where the American church can contribute to these efforts in the most sustainable ways.

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