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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.
25/11/2008
The Order’s worldwide relief service, Malteser International, on the ground in the devastated region Present since 2001 in Myanmar, the Order of Malta’s worldwide relief service was among the first to assist the victims of the devastating Nargis cyclone in early May, for which the official death toll now stands at 100,000, with over 1.5 […]
30/09/2008
In the coastal villages of southern India devastated by the tsunami of 2004 Malteser International has enabled 427 rural families to return to work on the rehabilitated land. Over 300 reservoirs and five wells have been reconstructed in villages. Through microcredit, 500 families have been able to resume their former activities. Small farmers have been […]
27/09/2008
The heaviest monsoon rains in years have flooded the federal state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, with more than 500,000 m³ of water discharged from the dams in neighbouring Nepal. Malteser International, the Order of Malta worldwide relief service, is there. All the streets here are flooded; the people are panicking, trying to escape […]
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