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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.
04/01/2013
2012 was an extremely demanding year for the Order of Malta’s Italian Relief Corps (CISOM). Twelve months of incessant interventions in which the corps gave the best of itself. Starting from the end of October 2011 a series of serious emergencies struck Italy in what is called “peacetime” in Civil Defence jargon. In late October […]
10/12/2012
The Philippine Association of the Order of Malta is responding to the humanitarian crisis More than 400 people have died and nearly 400 remain missing after Typhoon Bopha swept by the Philippines between 3-6 December with winds of up to 250 km/h. Almost 50,000 are still living in evacuation centres; five million in total have […]
04/12/2012
Two years after a flood of toxic sludge from an alumina plant engulfed parts of Western Hungary contaminating the River Danube, the central square of the town of Devecser has been renamed the ‘Order of Malta Garden’. In renaming the square the local government wished to commemorate the close co-operation between the town and the Hungarian Charity […]
Map indicates capital cities of countries where the Order of Malta runs medical, social, or humanitarian projects
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