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CloseEvery year, some 90 thousand people are killed by natural disasters and cataclysms. Some 160 million have been affected by events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, avalanches, hurricanes, fires, drought and heatwaves. In 2017 alone there were 335 natural disasters, with Asia being particularly affected.
By focusing on Disaster Risk Reduction the Order of Malta implements measures to ensure communities are prepared when disasters strike. Through its prevention programmes the Order of Malta in particular reaches out to people who are least able to flee: the elderly and disabled.
Recent emergency interventions have taken place in Indonesia following the earthquake and tsunami in September 2018, in Nepal after severe earthquakes, the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, the Horn of Africa struck by famine and across Europe where our Relief Corps respond to floods and extreme weather. Long-term sustainable development projects are ongoing in the regions of Asia laid waste by the tsunami and in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and the second most densely populated.
17/10/2013
The Order of Malta conducts a survey in Vietnam as part of United Nations data collection People with disabilities often lack the information and support they need to protect themselves from disasters. That is the preliminary result of a survey conducted by the Order of Malta’s relief agency, Malteser International, in Vietnam for International Day […]
08/10/2013
The 16 Syrian doctors and nurses who work at the mobile clinic in Kilis, near the Syrian-Turkish border have seen many terrors in their country’s civil war. Since the clinic’s opening, they have been employing their skills to help their fellow Syrians fleeing the country. The clinic, run by Malteser International, the Worldwide Relief Agency of […]
26/09/2013
The Lebanese Association is intensifying its medical and social activities on the Syrian border Located not even 40 kilometres from the Syrian border, the Khaldieh medical centre is on the same latitude as the Syrian town of Homs, the heart of the early clashes that inflamed Syria in March 2012. Khaldieh is in fact precisely […]
Map indicates capital cities of countries where the Order of Malta runs medical, social, or humanitarian projects
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