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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.
30/03/2010
One month after Chile’s devastating earthquake and the subsequent tsunami, Malteser International with the Order of Malta’s Chilean Association and the Ambulance Corps of the ‘Auxílio Maltés’ association is organizing further interventions to continue humanitarian aid for at least another year. On 27 February an earthquake of magnitude 8.8 on the Richter scale with epicentre […]
12/03/2010
A meeting in Miami to map out the Order’s future actions Immediately after giving birth in the Darbonne health centre, a young Haitian mother decided to name her baby Jim Malte in recognition of the assistance given by the Order of Malta’s international relief corps. Little Jim, one of the latest to be born on […]
24/02/2010
With a new disaster risk reduction project Malteser International is expanding its disaster preparedness in the townships of Rathidaung and Sittwe, in Rakhine state, where there is a high risk of earthquakes. The project aims to improve the social infrastructure and thus reduce the population’s vulnerability in emergencies, contributing to a sustainable development in the […]
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