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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.
21/07/2008
Malteser International’s assistance to the Ugandan population hit by the heavy floods last September has prompted a project to stop epidemics occurring after natural disasters. The plan has been operative since June in the Kaberamaido district in central Uganda, the most severely damaged by the flooding. The aim is to have a team of volunteers […]
09/07/2008
The third phase of the Home Repair Program, the project of the Order of Malta’s Federal Association to renovate the New Orleans homes destroyed by the Katrina hurricane in August 2005, will take off in September. In the first two stages, from 2005 to 2007, 26 families were able to move back to their homes […]
08/07/2008
In the summer of 2007, the severe floods affected over ten million people in the Uttar Pradesh and Bihair regions in northern India. Malteser International’s programme, financed by the European Commission, is primarily aimed at the most vulnerable people, such as single mothers and their children and the Dalits, the so-called untouchables. In particular, 60 […]
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