Impact stories

“I’m just boarding the plane to Cebu now, one of the areas hit by the typhoon. From there, we’ll take a boat to Leyte, and then try to get to Southern Leyte by car. We don’t know how the roads are. We don’t even know if the car will be able to get…

Typhoon Haiyan, here in the Philippines also known as Yolanda, made landfall this morning at 4:40. I was watching the news and it showed extremely strong winds, heavy rains and damages in the affected areas. Since then, the super storm has crossed…

When I was asked to go to Orissa for cyclone relief deployment, my only major concern was the language barrier. I was not at all familiar with Oriya—the language spoke in Orissa. But interacting with the victims of cyclone Phailin in Suryanarayanpur…

Do we risk it or not? Is the coast clear? Are they still shooting? Have the tanks finally rolled away? Are we out of reach of their airplanes and their bombs?

Amijaye Kebele, Farta Woreda, ETHIOPIA (July 23, 2013) - In a small, rural village in northern Ethiopia, Fikere and her husband Kasa would like to have three children – two boys and a girl. Late at night, after a hard day’s work on the farm,

Amijaye Kebele, Farta Woreda, ETHIOPIA (July 23, 2013) - Twelve-year-old Eleni* was so excited to be receiving new clothes from her parents that she didn’t ask why until it was too late

CAMBODIA (October 22, 2013) - International aid organisation CARE is distributing emergency supplies to thousands of households in north-east and south-east Cambodia affected by flooding throughout September and October.

A dusty road in the city of Irbid in the North of Jordan, about an hour's drive from the Syrian border. Box-shaped houses with small, barred windows are strung together.

Because of early evacuation and other preventative measures, cyclone Phailin has spared millions of lives on the coast of Eastern India. But its severe storms and rainfalls did wreak havoc in the lives of many. These are the stories of Shashi Naik, Lilu…