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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.
10/03/2009
Seven years after the devastating earthquake in the Gujarat region in India, Malteser International has completed its project for reconstructing houses, involving 1,600 families. At the end of 2008, the last lot of 156 houses was delivered. Costing 1,500 euro per house with an additional 350 euro for monitoring and maintenance, the Order of Malta’ […]
09/03/2009
The village of Seenanveli on Sri Lanka’s eastern coast has been destroyed more than once, and not only by the tsunami that devastated the region in December 2004. It is only in recent months that Malteser International has been able to start cooperating with a local partner in the reconstruction of homes for the 63 […]
10/12/2008
Malteser International delivered relief items to 580 families affected by the powerful earthquake in northern Baluchistan on 28 October. To face the winter, groundsheets, wool blankets, clothing, domestic and hygiene kits were distributed as well as water tanks and purification tablets. This earthquake was the worst to affect Pakistan since the one in October 2005 […]
Map indicates capital cities of countries where the Order of Malta runs medical, social, or humanitarian projects
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