Date: 2 May 2008 Tropical Cyclone Nargis, which hit the Ayeyarwady Delta region in Myanmar in May 2008, was the worst natural disaster to hit the country in recorded history. The UN reported a loss of close to 200,000 lives, with more than 2.4 million more affected....
Focused Sector(s): Education, Sustainable Livelihood Project: Skills Training and Enterprise Programme (STEP) Date and duration: July 2012 / 12 months Location: Phnom Penh Beneficiaries: 1,200 people Problem(s): A reduction in buying power due to inflation and a...
Focused Sector(s): Healthcare Project: Better Access, Better Healthcare, Better Health Date and duration: July 2011 / 12 months Location: Santouk District, Kampong Thom Province, Baray Beneficiaries: 23,000 villagers Problem(s): Healthcare centres in the provinces had...
Focused Sector(s): Healthcare Project: Health Community through WASH Date and duration: July 2011 / 12 months Location: Baray District, Kampong Thom Province Beneficiaries: 100 students and 750 households Problem(s): Lack of access to proper sanitation and safe...
Date: October – November 2011 Heavy torrential storms battered the Southeast Asian region in late 2011, resulting in large-scale flooding that affected millions. The floods claimed more than 2,000 lives across the region, displaced hundreds of thousands more and...
Date: July 2003 The intense heat wave that struck Afghanistan in July 2003 resulted in a mass exodus to the Durand Line – the Afghan-Pakistan border – close to Sada, Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan. An appeal for international humanitarian aid was made. Mercy Relief,...
Date: October 2001 – October 2003 The war against Afghanistan from 2001-2014 was part of the wider global war on terrorism known as Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) that followed the 9/11 attacks in the US. Mercy Relief stepped in to provide aid...
Focused Sector(s): Water, Sanitation, Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction (DPRR) Project: WASH for School and DPRR Date and duration: September 2012 to December 2013 / 16 months Location: Tam Giang Commune, Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam...
Focused Sector(s): Education Project: English for Everyone (EFE) Date and duration: September 2011 / 7 months Location: Thai Binh Province Beneficiaries: 80 teachers and 8,000 students from 56 schools Problem(s) While English was taught in both primary and high...
Focused Sector(s): Water, Sustainable Livelihood, Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction (DPRR) Project: Water, Livelihood and DPRR Date and duration: September 2012 to September 2013 / 12 months Location: Nam Cuong Commune, Tien Hai District, Thai Binh Province,...
