MYANMAR Cyclone Nargis six months on the recovery continues
MYANMAR (November 2, 2008) – Today marks six months since Cyclone Nargis tore through southern Myanmar, leaving over 130,000 people dead or missing and affecting 2.4 million more.
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MYANMAR (November 2, 2008) – Today marks six months since Cyclone Nargis tore through southern Myanmar, leaving over 130,000 people dead or missing and affecting 2.4 million more.
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HONDURAS (October 29, 2008) – CARE is rushing emergency assistance to flood-affected families in Honduras, after heavy rains caused severe flooding, landslides and rock falls, and destroyed homes and crops in many parts of the country. Honduras has been…
CARE’s emergency team is on the ground in the devastated region of Baluchistan province, near the border of Afghanistan, where a 6.4 magnitude earthquake destroyed houses and killed a reported 500-600 people.
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PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI (October 8, 2008) – In response to grave sanitary conditions in flood-affected regions of Haiti, CARE is distributing hygiene kits to 1,500 families, or about 7,500 people, in the greater Gonaïves region. These kits contain personal…
GONAIVES, HAITI (October 6, 2008) – Cleanup begins today in schools that are still swamped with mud and debris more than a month after floods devastated this city in northwestern Haiti. CARE is launching the effort in partnership with the humanitarian…
A public threat delivered through a media statement on Thursday October 2nd by the spokesperson of a local militia group is threatening humanitarian operations of one of the largest aid agencies currently operating throughout Somalia.
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