Date: 25 April 2015 Magnitude: 7.8 On 25 April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, claiming almost 9,000 lives, destroying more than 600,000 houses, and triggering an avalanche on Mount Everest that killed 21 and made it the deadliest day on the mountain in...
Focused Sector(s): Education Project: English for Everyone (EFE) Date and duration: November 2010 / 8 months Location: Da Nang Beneficiaries: 75 teachers and 4,000 students from 15 schools Problem(s) While English was taught at both primary and high schools, usage...
Focused Sector(s): Education, Water Project: Treatment of Contaminated Water for Village Consumption Date and duration: July 2010 / 10 months Location: 8B Village, Dien Nam Trung Commune, Dien Ban District, Quang Nam Province Beneficiaries: 600 villagers from 151...
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...
Date: November – December 2015 Incessant rain in India’s southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in November and December 2015 led to massive flooding. More than 340 fatalities were recorded, 280 of them in Tamil Nadu alone, with...
