1. BACKGROUND Giro 555 background Giro 555 or Stichting Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties (SHO) is the cooperation of 11 relief organisations that join forces in the event of exceptional disasters...
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1. BACKGROUND Giro 555 background Giro 555 or Stichting Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties (SHO) is the cooperation of 11 relief organisations that join forces in the event of exceptional disasters...
The three consecutive earthquakes that severely affected western Afghanistan in the second week of October, destroyed 21,500 homes, killed over 1,000 people and injured almost 2,000. According to the...
After the February earthquake, century-old convents in Aleppo and Latakia were turned into relief centres overnight, hosting thousands of people whose houses were damaged or destroyed. Giacomo...
A Cordaid Emergency Response team is reaching out to earthquake survivors in Paktika province, Afghanistan. We provide tents and blankets and will assist communities with rebuilding their...
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This year's World Humanitarian Day is marked by multiple major crises. Caritas Internationalis recalls that Integral Human Ecology is the only solution. 2021 has already had its fair share of crises,...
Cordaid has phased out its climate and disaster resilience projects in Indonesia. Time for aid coordinator Yohan Santosa to look back, as well as ahead. “We have made our mark. Cordaid contributed to...
Cordaid has been working in Myanmar since 2008, starting with support in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, and since then continued with humanitarian aid and resilience projects. The country is a...
As Dutch public fundraising campaigns for Sulawesi are gathering speed, aid efforts are scaling up as well. The death toll still rises and it appears that thousands of people are still stuck in...
Last Friday, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami hit Sulawesi, devastating large parts of the Indonesian island. The death toll stands at 832 and is expected to rise. Cordaid...
Introduction Development work has traditionally been centered on poverty reduction/ alleviation strategies, with attention on developing livelihood opportunities at the community level for the most...
Indonesian NGOs are providing humanitarian assistance to thousands of earthquake victims in North and West Lombok, with support from Cordaid. They do this in some of the most devastated villages of...
Resilience is the ability to anticipate risk, limit hazardous impact, and bounce back through survival and adaptability. Resilient communities are able to minimize the disaster’s disruption to...
Exactly 2 years ago, Nepal was hit by a devastating and deadly earthquake. Soon after the disaster Cordaid started recovery and reconstruction activities in Rasuwa, one of the most impacted...
1.Introduction The earthquake of April 16, 2016, with 7.8 on the Richter scale, affected primarily the Ecuadorian provinces of Es-meraldas, Manabi, Guayas, Los Rios, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas,...
In Nepal Cordaid is supporting some 500 displaced families in 4 camps. They lost their houses and income after the April and May 2015 earthquakes. We provide drinking water, business skills trainings...
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The Dutch have generously donated to the victims of the earthquake in Nepal, now one year ago. What has Cordaid, as a member of the cooperating aid organizations in The Netherlands (SHO), achieved...
by Inge Leuverink It’s 7.30 in the morning. We are driving through Kathmandu, to the training center where I will give a training for Nepalese organizations. Looking out of the window, I see many...
In April and May 2015, Nepal was hit by severe earthquakes. Thousands of people were killed and millions of others lost their house and their income. Almost a year after, many villages are still in...
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2015 was a year of milestones: from the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals to the new Climate Agreement in Paris. Yet, it also was a year of hardships: the earthquake in Nepal and the...
Landlocked Nepal is hit by severe fuel shortages and border blockades, at a time when the country is still recovering from the earthquakes in April and May. Cordaid relief operations are affected by...