
Content The Guidance Note on Recovery: Private Sector draws from the wider body of knowledge on private sector recovery and from documented experiences of past and present disaster planning and...
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Content The Guidance Note on Recovery: Private Sector draws from the wider body of knowledge on private sector recovery and from documented experiences of past and present disaster planning and...
Church World Service, a global humanitarian organization, has awarded a grant of $5,000 to the Joplin Long-Term Recovery Committee to assist in meeting the needs of tornado survivors. The Joplin Long...
El Salvador + 5 more
Stamford, Conn. – June 1, 2012 – AmeriCares is launching two new disaster preparedness initiatives today, the official start of the 2012 hurricane season in the Atlantic, to help prepare families in...
One year ago an EF-5 tornado struck Joplin, Mo., destroying hundreds of homes and businesses, and killing 161 people. Since then, Convoy of Hope has distributed more than 3 million pounds of food and...
Ethiopia + 16 more
One Little Life at a Time: Emergency Response in the Horn of Africa In 2011, people in the Horn of Africa asked only one question: When will the rains return? After two years of drought, 13 million...
Yellow daffodils are blooming along the foundation of where Helen Owen’s, 79, house stood before being blown apart by the Joplin, Mo. tornado. The small sign of new life is indicative of the...
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 2011 SPRING STORMS – December 2011 UPDATE Appeal Number 627-P Appeal Goal: $280,000 Amount received: about $173,000 Situation: ...
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302 human impact disasters claimed 29,782 lives; affected 206 million and inflicted record economic damages of $366 billion in 2011 Geneva, 18 January 2012 – For two consecutive years the long-term...
Stamford, Conn., Dec. 27, 2011 – AmeriCares has awarded more than $600,000 in disaster recovery grants to 12 nonprofit organizations in seven states. AmeriCares launched the grant program in August...
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 2011 SPRING STORMS – December 2011 UPDATE Appeal Number 627-P Appeal Goal: $280,000 Amount received: about $173,000 Situation: ...
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TOKYO, September 27, 2011 – The World Bank says Japan’s systematic and careful investments in seismic safety and tsunami preparedness over several decades saved countless lives during the Tohoku...
Release Date: August 22, 2011 Release Number: 1971-156 » More Information on Alabama Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, and Flooding » 2011 Region IV News Releases BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The...
Thursday, August 18, 2011 — It’s been a costly year for disasters in the United States and the American Red Cross has been responding all over the country to help the thousands of people affected by...
Libya + 3 more
Legacy of Care - 20 years of Medical Training in Emerging Nations Twenty years ago, a small team of IRT volunteer medical specialists traveled to what was then the Soviet Socialist Republic of Latvia...
Release Number: HQ-11-126 » More Information on Missouri Flooding » En Español WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that...
Release Date: August 11, 2011 Release Number: 1972/1983-051 » More Information on Mississippi Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, and Associated Flooding » More Information on Mississippi...
Release Date: August 8, 2011 Release Number: HQ-11-125 » More Information on Utah Flooding WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)...
Release Date: August 5, 2011 Release Number: 1981-039 » More Information on North Dakota Flooding » 2011 Region VIII News Releases BISMARCK, N.D. – Federal and state disaster assistance for this...
SAN JUAN, PR - Federal officials announced today that the municipality of Yabucoa has been added to the list of designated municipalities under the presidential disaster declaration of July 14, 2011...
Release Number: HQ-11-122 » More Information on Kansas Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency...