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People affected by the drought carry wheat bags from a government run food depot. The Afar Region is one of the hardest hit, with all 32 of its woredas (districts) classified as a nutrition ‘priority 1’ affecting an estimated 1.7 million people (80 per cent pastoralists), including 234,000 under-five children. March-9-2016. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Mulugeta Ayene
Natural disasters can often be the biggest threat to a country's infrastructure as recent earthquakes around the world have shown. However over the weekend, several southern states in the US where struck by violent storms and tornadoes that have devastated the region and killed up to 12 people.
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Graphic by Tiffany Farrant
Lismore Square shopping complex , built to 1 in 100 year flood levels....flood waterline faintly visible on orange panel and continuing under floor on white facet
After days of continuous rains, parts of Haiti's north, including Cap Haïtien, suffered serious flooding, leaving more than a dozen dead and thousands homeless. The Haitian government with the support of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and UN agencies including the World Food Programme (WFP), responded with evacuations, temporary shelters and food and supplies distributions.
Community members start to clean up as the water begins to retreat from a flooded street.
UN Photo/Logan Abassi
City: Cap Haïtien
Country: Haiti
NICA ID: 616793
11/11/2014
A family crosses the flooded streets of Pakistan.
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Hasna Sadik 6, poses for picture under a shade of tree protected from the blistering heat. She is still attending class even though schools often lack meals and drinking clean water. In 2016, it’s estimated there will be 136,000 children, pregnant and lactating women with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) occurrence and 32,000 children who will be affected with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in lubakda kebele, kore woreda Afar Region. March-9-2016. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Mulugeta Ayene
Last month, I left behind my life in the Middle East, working in humanitarian advocacy & coordination in Jordan and Iraq, and moved to South Asia to join a UN agency in Pakistan.
Pakistan has been completely devastated - with millions of hectares of farmland destroyed - and up to 20% of the country underwater during the height of the floods. A few days ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a joint aid delivery and flew over parts of Punjab province, seeing the floods for myself. Houses have either been completely destroyed or only left partially standing, while millions of people have lost everything they own. This is largest emergency to ever occur. Despite few deaths, over 20 million people have been severely or moderately affected - that is more than the Asian tsunami, Pakistan earthquake in Kashmir, and Haiti earthquake combined. How Big Really helps make sense of the size and scale of the ever moving floods.
Muzaffargarh district, Punjab, 2010
Brothers Faisal (left, 6 yrs) and Amir (right, 7 yrs) below at their recently rehabilitated primary school in Muzaffargarh, Sindh.
Their school was under water for more than a month during the flood, and has just been rehabilitated by Save the Children, who reinstalled electrics, toilets, safe drinking water, as well as repairing, cleaning, and repainting the building. Some 10,000 other schools have been damaged or destroyed in the floods, which is why the UK government is putting £10 million into projects by Save the Children, Plan International, and Hands to repair 1,500 schools and provide 200 temporary facilities where schools have been destroyed.
Faisal said: “Our school was closed for one and a half months. Water was above the window ledge. My brother and I rushed home to our mother and father, and we all had to move away to a safer area for two months, where we stayed with relatives and other people. Some of our friends went to stay in camps, and lived in tents. The school is better now than it was before.”
Find out more about the UK government's response to the Pakistan floods at www.dfid.gov.uk/pakistan-floods-six-months
Image: DFID/Vicki Francis
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Woman from Singla village extracts her belongings from the rubble in the aftermath of the earthquake in Nepal.
Video: Galvanizing Support for Nepal after Earthquake
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Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
My kiddo's old school after the ex TC Alfred had passed over...
Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - March 2025
A watercolor and tempra painting with pen and ink by Robert L. Huffstutter. Painted in a Motomachi hotel room in Yokohama, Japan in 1962.
I recently acquired some rather special vintage photos of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake - including this 3.25" x 4.25" velox print of the fiery aftermath simply inscribed ""Downtown" on the back.
GOES West animation of the eruption of the undersea volcano in Tonga last night. The eruption is visible in the lower-right part of the globe.
Survivor of cyclone "Nargis" residing in an Internally Displaced Persons camp, consisting of 104 tents donated by the governments of China and India, situated in the Ayeyarwady delta region.
Photo ID 147304. 22/05/2008. Bebaye Township, Myanmar. UN Photo/Evan Schneider. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
I posted a video these falls from the shore on the top left during the May floods. The video shows a vastly different creek than what's pictured here.
The bottom left, far shore depicts lots of bright orange gravel. This gravel, since the May and August floods, has inundated fields, roads and creeks. It's a jagged cherty limestone weathered from its parent rock unit, the Fort Payne Formation. Where we now see the orange gravel, we once saw sandy beach, grass, or rounded river stones. The rock I stood on to shoot this, and the cliff face on the right is also Fort Payne.
In the top right one can see the last sunbeams of the day breaking down into the small valley that Flat Creek sits in. The property this waterfall is on is for sale, but I don't think many people have visited it recently. I waded through knee, to over-my-head-high weeds, down what was once a gravel road to get here.
This is a three HDR panorama. Each HDR is comprised of 5 photos (+3/-3ev).
Tennessee Landforms (location information)
Used in the blog posts Tennessee's Eastern Highland Rim - Part 1 - Geology and Fort Payne Formation & Chattanooga Shale Contact Waterfalls.
After days of continuous rains, parts of Haiti's north, including Cap Haïtien, suffered serious flooding, leaving more than a dozen dead and thousands homeless. The Haitian government with the support of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and UN agencies including the World Food Programme (WFP), responded with evacuations, temporary shelters and food and supplies distributions.
Hanging laundry dries in a flooded neighborhood.
UN Photo/Logan Abassi
City: Cap Haïtien
Country: Haiti
11/11/2014
NICA ID: 616789
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Photos and video of Tree, 44, approaching Sam while talking gently to her, and feeding her water from a plastic bottle as she put her burned claw in his cold, wet hand quickly hit YouTube, making her an Internet sensation.
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Subject: Victoria Burning - Help Animal Fire Victims In Australia
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2/13/09: Victoria Burning - Help Animal Fire Victims
IN THIS ALERT:
1. KC Directory: Animal Relief Efforts You Can Help. Millions Died...
2. Nigel’s Animal Rescue: Send Money & Supplies ASAP
3. Wildlife Victoria: Overwhelmed With Fire Victims
4. Help For Wildlife: Long Recovery Ahead For Animals
5. RSPCA: Emergency Aid For Companion Animals
6. Wildlife Burning
7. IFAW: Team On The Ground For Animals In Victoria
8. Survivors Of The Fire - Symbols of Hope
Please review resources below to see WHO and HOW to help.
PHOTOS: Help For Wildlife, Victoria (Australia) -- www.helpforwildlife.com/bushfires/photos.html
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1. Animal Relief Efforts You Can Help. Millions Died...
EYEWITNESS TO THE FIRES -- VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
2/12/09, Katie, Lake Nagambie - Victoria, Australia, beachside64 [at] optusnet.com.au -- It feels like the whole of Victoria is up in flames. We expect [human] fatalities to climb over 300 when they get around to more isolated areas. [It is estimated] well over 1 million wild and domestic animals have perished... Animals lucky enough to be rescued will need months of care and rehabilitation. There are still 31 fires burning...
Kinship Circle Directory
HELP FOR WILDLIFE
WEBSITE: www.helpforwildlife.com/
WILDLIFE IN FIRES: www.helpforwildlife.com/bushfires/how_to_help.html
DONATE BY MAIL:
Help For Wildlife, PO Box 181
Coldstream, VIC 3770, Australia
ph: 0417 380 687
WILDLIFE VICTORIA’S URGENT BUSHFIRE APPEAL
WEBSITE: www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/cms/index.php
DONATE ONLINE: www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/cms/index.php?option=com_wrap...
BY MAIL:
Jon Rowdon, President, Wildlife Victoria
Reply Paid 84688
MELBOURNE VIC 3000
DIRECT DEPOSIT:
Account Name: Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Account
Bank Name: Commonwealth Bank
BSB: 063 806
Account: 1007 7387
NIGEL'S ANIMAL RESCUE
WEBSITE: www.animalrescue.com.au/
DONATE BY MAIL:
Nigel’s Animal Rescue, PO Box 1096
Hartwell 3124
ph: 0427 533 083
ONLINE INFORMATION: www.animalrescue.com.au/fire_crisis.php
RSPCA – INJURED/DISPLACED COMPANION ANIMALS
WEBSITE: www.rspcavic.org/index.htm
DONATE ONLINE: wic032p.server-secure.com/vs138364_secure/Default.aspx?Re...
BY MAIL:
Bushfire Appeal, RSPCA Victoria
3 Burwood Highway
Burwood East VIC 3151
ph: 03 9224 2222
DIRECT DEPOSIT:
RSPCA Bushfire Appeal
BSB 083-153
A/c 868326451
Email your contact info to: accounts [at] rspcavic.org.au
(name, address, date, amount donated)
IFAW / ASIA-PACIFIC
DONATE ONLINE: www.ifaw.org/ifaw_asia_pacific/donate_now/index.php?msour...
WILDLIFE RESCUE & INFORMATION INC
WEBSITE: www.wrin.asn.au/
EMAIL: secretary [at] wrin.asn.au
DONATE ONLINE: www.wrin.asn.au/payments.htm
BY MAIL:
W.R.I.N. Inc., P.O. Box 2412
Bendigo, VICTORIA 3554, AUSTRALIA
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES + NEWS LINKS:
DOGS Victoria Bushfire Appeal
www.dogsvictoria.org.au/Content.asp?ID=277&SubID=367
Australian Wildlife Health Centre / RACV Wildlife Connect 13 11 11
www.awhc.zoo.org.au/Get%20Involved/Found%20Injured%20Wild...
Millions of animals feared dead
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29143295/
Millions of animals dead in Australia fires
www.rr.com/news/news/article/9002/6834427/Millions_of_ani...
Koala rescued from Australia's wildfire wasteland
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090210/ap_on_re_as/as_australia_wil...
Wildfire toll could surpass 200
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29114722/
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2. Nigel’s Animal Rescue: Send Money & Supplies ASAP
2/9/09, Victoria Fire Crisis – Your Urgent Assistance Is Required
FULL STORY: www.animalrescue.com.au/fire_crisis.php
NIGEL’S ANIMAL RESCUE – CENTRAL HUB FOR DONATIONS & SUPPLIES:
Nigel's Animal Rescue has been working around the clock to provide emergency assistance to animals affected by the bushfires and we desperately need your help! Nigel’s Animal Rescue currently operates as the central hub for donations and supplies for all animal rescues in the area.
SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR ANIMALS:
Hay, Straw / Food Cat-Dog-Chaff / Medical Supplies
Cages Transportable Collapsible / Temporary pens
Transport for injured animals
4g and 22g catheters (prefer introcan but anything would be fine)
5cm coplus & soffban / Idexx urea and creat slides
0.9% sodium chloride 1 litre bags
Gloves / Swabs / Bedding
Giving sets / Extension sets
Melolin 10cm x 10cm
Silvazine / Baytril injectable
Tramal injectable / Temgesic injectable
Alfaxan CD / Solosite
IV Drip pumps J / Heat pads/packs
1ml, 3ml, 5, 10ml, 20, syringes
DONATE TO NIGEL'S ANIMAL RESCUE:
WEBSITE: www.animalrescue.com.au/
EMAIL: nigel [at] animalrescue.com.au
DONATE MONEY OR SUPPLIES BY MAIL:
Nigel’s Animal Rescue, PO Box 1096
Hartwell 3124
ph: 0427 533 083
ONLINE INFO ON HOW TO DONATE: www.animalrescue.com.au/fire_crisis.php
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3. Wildlife Victoria: Overwhelmed With Fire Victims
2/09, Bushfires threaten wildlife survival – affected wildlife already in care
FULL: www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/cms/index.php?option=com_cont...
The fires have devastated our wildlife, including the loss of at least two wildlife shelters... Wildlife rescuers are preparing for one of the largest operations in our history once we can safely enter fire grounds... Unfortunately we cannot take volunteers at this time unless they’re already trained. If people want to help -- please donate to the appeal.
FOR INJURED ANIMALS, ONLY: 13 000 94535 (13 000 WILDLIFE), 24 hours
DONATE TO WILDLIFE VICTORIA’S URGENT BUSHFIRE APPEAL:
To fund bandages, treatment, medicines and food for injured wildlife, plus activities to help our volunteers best respond to wildlife needs.
WEBSITE: www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/cms/index.php
EMAIL: office [at] wildlifevictoria.org.auThis
ONLINE: www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/cms/index.php?option=com_wrap...
BY MAIL:
Wildlife Victoria, 3/288 Brunswick St.
Fitzroy 3065
ph: 9445 0310
DIRECT DEPOSIT:
Account Name: Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Account
Bank Name: Commonwealth Bank
BSB: 063 806
Account: 1007 7387
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4. Help For Wildlife: Long Recovery Ahead For Animals
2/10/09, Rescuers And Firefighters Helping Wildlife During Bush Fires in Victoria, Australia
FULL STORY: network.bestfriends.org/rapidresponse/news/32108.html
POSTED COMMENT IN BEST FRIENDS AUSTRALIA NETWORK COMMUNITY:
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The Help for Wildlife response team -- based in the vicinity where Kinglake/Healesville fires occurred -- are on standby to enter fire grounds when safe to rescue injured wildlife. They already have a number of animals in care and are expecting many more. Kangaroos and wallabies found in abundance in this area can take months to recover and require a great deal of dressings and medication.
SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR ANIMALS:
silverzine cream / non-stick dressings
soft bandages / vet wrap
saline / disinfectant/clorhexidine
syringes / pain relief / antibiotics
feed / hay (for starving wildlife)
Donations for fuel (to carry out the extensive search and rescue)
DONATE TO HELP FOR WILDLIFE:
WEBSITE: www.helpforwildlife.com/help_for_wildlife.html
EMAIL: helpforwildlife [at] bigpond.com
DONATE MONEY OR SUPPLIES BY MAIL:
Help For Wildlife, PO Box 181
Coldstream 3770 VIC, Australia
ph: 0417 380 687, 0359 649, 480
Denise Garratt, Director
Parched koala bear gets a drink from a biker
www.lobsa.org/images20/ThirstyKoalaVictorianBushfires09.jpg
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5. RSPCA: Emergency Aid For Companion Animals
2/12/09, How the RSPCA is helping Victoria’s bushfire victims
FULL STORY: www.rspcavic.org/campaigns_news/news_bushfires.htm
HOW RSPCA IS HELPING BUSHFIRE VICTIMS:
* Emergency advice is available at 03 9224 2222.
* Free veterinary care to animals in need at RSPCA Burwood and Pearcedale Veterinary Clinics.
* Financial assistance to cover expenses provided by other vets: Call 03 9224 2251 or 0405 015 794.
* For all other enquiries call: 03 9224 2222.
* Pet Supplies: RSPCA has delivered pet food to relief centres.
* To donate pet food, bedding, leads and bowls, deliver these to your local RSPCA.
* Lost & Found: Working to reunite lost pets with their families.
* Temporary Accommodation: To animals at our shelters across Victoria. Call: 03 9224 2222.
* FOR MORE DETAILS -- www.rspcavic.org/campaigns_news/news_bushfires.htm
DONATE TO RSPCA - INJURED/DISPLACED COMPANION ANIMALS:
WEBSITE: www.rspcavic.org/index.htm
DONATE ONLINE: wic032p.server-secure.com/vs138364_secure/Default.aspx?Re...
BY MAIL:
Bushfire Appeal, RSPCA Victoria
3 Burwood Highway
Burwood East VIC 3151
DIRECT DESPOSIT:
RSPCA Bushfire Appeal
BSB 083-153
A/c 868326451
Email your contact info to: accounts [at] rspcavic.org.au
(name, address, date, amount donated)
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6. Wildlife Burning
2/12/09, Animals fall victim to Australian fire
FULL STORY: newsok.com/animals-fall-victim-to-australian-fire/article...
SYDNEY -- Wildlife rescue officials worked frantically to help the animals that made it through Australia’s worst-ever wildfires, but they said millions of animals likely perished in the inferno. Hundreds of burned, stressed and dehydrated animals -- including kangaroos, koalas, lizards and birds -- already have arrived at shelters across the scorched region. Rescuers have doled out antibiotics, pain relievers and fluids to the critters in a bid to keep them comfortable, but some of the severely injured were euthanized to spare any more suffering.
Sam, a koala saved from the bushfires, is treated 2/11/09 at the Mountain Ash Wildlife Center in Rawson, Australia. AP PHOTO.
newsok.com/animals-fall-victim-to-australian-fire/article...
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7. IFAW: Team On The Ground For Animals In Victoria
2/11/09, Bushfire Emergency
FULL STORY: www.ifaw.org/ifaw_asia_pacific/index.php
Bushfire emergency in Australia - a message from Erica Martin
FULL STORY: www.animalrescueblog.org/
Photo © IFAW / M. Fillinger. 2/11/09, IFAW helps Victoria's animal victims
www.ifaw.org/ifaw_asia_pacific/media_center/press_release...
IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) has sent an emergency relief team to help wild and domestic animals affected by the devastating fires in Victoria. Tania Duratovic is leading the IFAW team in Whittlesea. We arrived in Whittlesea (2/9/09) and set up in the staging area...
Today we traveled to Kinglake West and Kinglake Central - two of the worst hit areas. Remnants of trees and piles of rubble are all that is left of what used to people’s homes and indeed whole towns. People are happy...to see something emerge alive from the devastation. As one person recounted as they handed over a slightly burned ring-tailed possum, “We have lost our house, our neighbours and our pets but we found this little guy alive -- please help him, I just want him to live.”
IFAW vet Dr. Howard Ralph administered first aid and the possum is now under the care of Help for Wildlife volunteers. Dr. Ralph, is a renowned vet, burns specialist and human doctor. He is helping local vets treat pets at the survivors’ shelter in Whittlesea. Photo © IFAW / M. Fillinger
So far we have been able to provide immediate aid to many animals suffering from the effects of the fire including dogs, cats, horses, ducks, chickens, wallabies, possums, kangaroos, joeys, koalas, a peacock, a lyrebird, a goat, a dingo and an orphaned baby deer...
ONGOING IFAW UPDATES FROM THE FIELD:
www.animalrescueblog.org/2009/02/bushfire-update.html#more
DONATE TO IFAW / ASIA-PACIFIC:
www.ifaw.org/ifaw_asia_pacific/donate_now/index.php?msour...
Anyone who finds an injured animal should call Tania Duratovic on 0428 229 000.
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8. Survivors Of The Fire – Symbols of Hope
2/11/09, Aussies find symbols of hope in two koalas
FULL STORY: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29123220/
A koala nicknamed Bob puts his paw around fellow fire survivor Sam at the Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter in Rawson, Australia. Colleen Wood / Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter via Reuters. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29123220/
SYDNEY -- A bond between two burned koalas rescued from Australia's deadliest wildfires has provided some heart-warming relief after days of devastation and the loss of more than 180 lives and possibly millions of animals. The story of the koalas emerged after volunteer firefighter David Tree used a mobile phone to photograph and film the rescue of the bewildered female, since nicknamed Sam, that was found cowering in a burned-out forest at Mirboo North, 90 miles southeast of Melbourne.
Photos and video of Tree, 44, approaching Sam while talking gently to her, and feeding her water from a plastic bottle as she put her burned claw in his cold, wet hand quickly hit YouTube, making her an Internet sensation.
But it was after reaching a wildlife shelter that Sam met and befriended another koala, nicknamed Bob, who was saved by wildlife workers two days before Sam, in Boolarra, about 110 miles from Melbourne...
CONTINUE STORY: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29123220/
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first shot of a series i'm working on.
the location was a bitch to get to. i had to hike through mud and jump a wall in 3 inch heels. but it was well worth it.
8 exposures overlaid in photoshop.
models: myself and ian grant armstrong. location: new mexico.
lighting: sun.
Drove about 180 miles east from Des Moines to the family farm in Jackson County, Iowa over the weekend. There was visible damage from last week's huge storm (aka derecho) along every mile of the trip: downed power lines, flattened fields, damaged homes and businesses, fallen trees. This, for example, is a huge new grain bin at the River Valley Cooperative in Martelle - the tallest structure in this town of 250 people - which collapsed onto itself, spilling thousands of bushels of corn to the roadway. Outside of the Midwest this natural disaster, that has caused an untold amount of damage and left tens of thousands of people without power for days, has received very little attention.
A pharmacist in an International Medical Corps mobile health clinic dispenses medicine to a sick child in a remote village in Pakistan's Sindh province.
The UK government, through the Department for International Development, is supporting International Medical Corps' work in Pakistan to help thousands of people affected by the flooding that devastated the country in August 2010.
Many people have only recently been able to return to their communities as the flood waters recede, but many homes and infrastructure such as schools and medical facilities have damaged or destroyed. Mobile clinics such as those provided by International Medical Corps are providing vital basic health care, as well as an early warning scheme, looking out for signs of any outbreak of disease such as cholera or dissentry.
Find out more about the UK government's response to the Pakistan floods at www.dfid.gov.uk/pakistan-floods-six-months
Image: DFID/Vicki Francis
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View of the plume from an underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga in the South Pacific on 15 January 2022 from the Japanese Himawari 8 weather satellite. The eruption caused a tsunami.
The 150 yr. old house on Front St, in Union Beach that has become symbolic of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Initially inspired by Diana Trout's doodle game - sketchbookchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/doodle-game.html - I can't stop thinking of all those who have lost everything they highly prized in the many recent natural disasters around the world :-(
Abo Abdo, 13, posing for a picture. He says water is life, especially for the people like him living in rural Ethiopia who often walk 1-2 miles everyday. Children are at risk of malnutrition, while a lack of clean water is increasing the threat of disease in Afar region, which last saw rain fall in August 2015. The failure of two consecutive rainy seasons, including the June to September Kiremt rains that normally feed 80 to 85 percent of the country, has devastated livelihoods and substantially increased malnutrition rates in seven regions of Ethiopia. The current crisis is linked to the strength of the El Niño phenomenon. As a result, in 2016, it’s estimated there will be 136,000 children, pregnant and lactating women with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) occurrence and 32,000 children who will be affected with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in the Afar Region. March-9-2016. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Mulugeta Ayene
A man stands for salaat (Muslim prayer) amid the debris of a home in the 1991 cyclone affected coastal area of Chittagong, Bangladesh. 1991.
After days of continuous rains, parts of Haiti's north, including Cap Haïtien, suffered serious flooding, leaving more than a dozen dead and thousands homeless. The Haitian government with the support of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and UN agencies including the World Food Programme (WFP), responded with evacuations, temporary shelters and food and supplies distributions.
Children return to school as the rains subside.
Credit: UN Photo/Logan Abassi
Photo Date: 11/11/2014
NICA ID: 616797
City: Cap Haïtien
Country: Haiti
A young girl walks across a makeshift bridge over stagnant flood-water in Sindh province, Pakistan.
Even though the flood waters are now receding in parts of Sindh, many communities are still relatively cut-off from main roads and access routes.
People are returning to what is left of their homes as soon as the waters have receded sufficiently for them to do so, but in many cases, they find houses that have been badly damaged, if not washed away completely.
Fields and agricultural land are also still badly flooded, preventing people from restarting work; this part of Sindh is predominantly agricultural, and the only form of employment for most people is to work on the farms growing rice and other crops.
Find out more about the UK government's response to the Pakistan floods at www.dfid.gov.uk/pakistan-floods-six-months
Image: Department for International Development/Magnus Wolfe-Murray
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This image is posted under a Creative Commons - Attribution Licence, in accordance with the Open Government Licence. You are free to embed, download or otherwise re-use it, as long as you credit the source as 'Department for International Development'.
After days of continuous rains, parts of Haiti's north, including Cap Haïtien, suffered serious flooding, leaving more than a dozen dead and thousands homeless. The Haitian government with the support of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and UN agencies including the World Food Programme (WFP), responded with evacuations, temporary shelters and food and supplies distributions.
Two children peer out from a window in a flooded neighborhood.
UN Photo/Logan Abassi
City: Cap Haïtien
Country: Haiti
11/11/2014
NICA ID: 616794
At 1.35 p.m. on 2 March 1987, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck the Bay of Plenty region, cutting power and sending many people outdoors. Minutes later a much stronger quake rocked the region. This main shock, at 1.42 p.m., had a magnitude of 6.3 and was centred north of Edgecumbe. Four aftershocks with magnitudes greater than 5 occurred in the next six hours, and smaller aftershocks were felt for weeks.
The Edgecumbe earthquake was the first since the 1968 Īnangahua quake to cause major damage. Although not of an exceptional magnitude, it was damaging because it was very shallow. No one was killed, but several dozen people suffered serious injuries.
The most spectacular effect of the Edgecumbe earthquake was the 7-kilometre-long rift that appeared across the Rangitāiki Plains – the Edgecumbe Fault. A fissure up to 3 metres wide and 3–4 metres deep opened up along much of the fault, although some sections were marked just by zones of cracks. The earthquake had been caused by movement along the fault; the land to the north-west had dropped by up to 2 metres. The region which sank downward is now more prone to flooding.
As these images from the Ministry of Civil Defence, Central Regional Office show, railway tracks were twisted and bent, and a diesel-electric locomotive toppled over. They come from a collection of photographic albums covering disasters, exercises, course photographs, publicity material, staff photographs, study trips, emergencies, and overseas visits.
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A group of children who are affected by the floods. The Secretary-General António Guterres (not seen) witnessed the impact of the floods in the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. Over 1,300 lives were lost and tens of millions of people lost their homes, while one-third of the country submerged.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
10 September 2022
Usta Muhammad, Pakistan
Photo # UN7948505
Hawe Mohammed 9 poses picture in the blistering heat of Afar. With her father and brothers tending to their remaining livestock and her mother away to fetch water, Hawe takes care of the responsibility to look after her younger siblings along side her daily education. In 2016, it’s estimated there will be 136,000 children, pregnant and lactating women with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) occurrence and 32,000 children who will be affected with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in lubakda kebele, kore woreda Afar Region. March-9-2016. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Mulugeta Ayene
Twenty men and one woman drowned when a cloudburst sent a wall of water surging through a public works camp in the Kopuawhara Valley, near Māhia.
Located on the banks of the Kopuawhara Stream, the no. 4 camp accommodated workers building the Wairoa–Gisborne railway. Houses for married men were on higher ground, with a cookhouse and huts for single men closer to the riverbank.
Although the stream was in flood after heavy rain, the 5-m-high wall of water that hit the camp sometime after 3 a.m. took everyone by surprise. Water began pouring across the campsite, sweeping away everything in its path.
Some men took refuge on the roofs of huts, but most of these structures collapsed. Those who climbed onto the roof of the cookhouse managed to hang on until they were rescued at daybreak. The 11 men who took refuge in one of the work trucks were not so lucky. The force of the water tipped it onto its side and swept its occupants away; rescuers found remnants of the vehicle 12 km downstream.
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This young girl lives in a relief camp with her family in Jamshoro district, Sindh, after having to leave their home during the monsoon floods. During the day, she spends time in one of UNICEF's child-friendly spaces, where play and counselling helps her overcome the trauma of losing everything. These spaces also serve as temporary learning centres, enabling her to continue her schooling.
Jamshoro, Pakistan, 2010