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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.
23/06/2009
The Order’s Italian Ambulance Corps is assisting 600 displaced people in two tent camps On 20 June last, the Order of Malta’s Grand Master Fra’ Matthew Festing, in his second visit after that of 23 April, spent another day with the homeless victims in the two tent camps of S. Felice d’Ocre and Poggio di […]
19/06/2009
From 20 June to 30 August, seven teams of Order of Malta volunteers from Austria and Germania, coordinated by Malteser International, joined the Order’s Italian Ambulance Corps in offering assistance to the earthquake victims Abruzzo. Immediately after the earthquake that struck Abruzzo on 6 April, with over 300 dead, 1,600 wounded and some 65,000 rendered […]
05/05/2009
A new adventure playground and a camp for children was inaugurated in the village of Cedros de Villa last March. This event concluded the project Helping the Disadvantaged in the South funded by Malteser International after the disastrous 7.9 magnitude earthquake that hit the central coast of Peru in August 2007. After having helped reconstruct […]
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