“What we have witnessed since Friday is horrifying”, says Rini Haris, a 37 year old mother of two who lives in Palu, the densely populated city in the north central part of the island Sulawesi in Indonesia.
As death toll soars, CARE aims to focus on hard-to-reach areas, north of Palu
A former CARE Indonesia staff member tells us of the horror experienced by the people in Indonesia, just days after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and a massive tsunami devastated the island of Sulawesi.
International NGO CARE today began preparations for an assessment of the damages caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has left at least 832 people dead and a further 540 injured on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
The Damrey typhoon in central Vietnam in late 2017 left over 4 million people in need of emergency assistance. Over 134,000 houses were damaged, of which more than 3,500 were completely destroyed. Occurring right before the APEC Summit, the disaster drew immediate attention from international media and leaders, resulting in quick responses from the Vietnamese and other governments to a few worst affected provinces.
CARE is closely monitoring the situation in Indonesia and is ready to respond if and when needed, after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits the island of Sulawesi.
Hodeidah is my hometown. For me it is the city of angels, the city that never sleeps. But today Hodeidah is not the place we knew. The city that never sleeps is now the darkest city in Yemen. People are leaving Hodeidah every day, running for their lives, fleeing to safety.
Clashes between the national army and an armed group, which killed 18 people and injured 8 here over the weekend, have forced aid groups to suspend parts of the Ebola response, highlighting how difficult it is to contain the first outbreak of the deadly virus in a war zone.
The international community urgently needs to step up funding and better coordinate their efforts to support hundreds of thousands of refugees from Venezuela, warns the aid organization CARE.
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