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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.
16/11/2009
Preparing communities for disaster situations becomes more and more crucial in regions highly vulnerable to reoccurring natural disasters like in Pakistan: for its efforts to work with the local communities on this topic, the Malteser International field office in Muzaffarabad has now received an award from the government of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. […]
08/11/2009
About 20 million people in the Horn of Africa are meanwhile dependent on food aid as a severe drought spread over the region. In Kenya, around one third of the population is suffering from hunger and diseases related to malnutrition and lack of potable water. Malteser International, the Order of Malta’s International Relief Corps, now […]
30/10/2009
The Order of Malta’s International Corps is currently engaged in emergency and humanitarian first-aid actions on three fronts – in Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra hit by a devastating earthquake, in Vietnam, where three million people are suffering the consequences of the typhoon Ketsana, and in the Philippines brought to its knees by the […]
Map indicates capital cities of countries where the Order of Malta runs medical, social, or humanitarian projects
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