Date: July – August 2010 Torrential rains during the monsoon season in 2010 put a fifth of Pakistan under water including the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan regions. Close to 2,000 lives were lost and 21 million others affected by the...
Focused Sector(s): Education Project: Special Needs Training (SPENT) Date and duration: December 2009 / 12 months Location: Ho Chi Minh City Beneficiaries: 40 special needs caregivers/teaching staff and 1,000 special needs students from five different schools...
Date: March – June 2009 A major humanitarian crisis unfolded in the Swat Valley in March 2009 following the violation of a peace agreement by the Pakistani Taliban. The conflict displaced some two million residents of the Swat Valley, which also suffered...
Focused Sector(s): Education Project: English for Everyone (EFE) Date and duration: July 2009 / 8 months Location: Ho Chi Minh City Beneficiaries: Five English language teachers from the University of Finance and Marketing (UFM) and 53 other teachers, benefitting...
Date: 26 September 2009 Category: 2 (Tropical Cyclone) Typhoon Ketsana was the second most devastating tropical cyclone of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, bringing 455mm of rain to the Philippines over a 24 hour period on September 26, before moving on to hit...
Date: 8 October 2005 Magnitude: 7.6 The devastating earthquake that struck Pakistan-administered Kashmir in October 2005 resulted in the loss of more than 80,000 lives with more than 41,000 injured. Entire villages were destroyed, leaving survivors homeless with...
