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Hurricane Dorian, a category five hurricane, swept the Bahama islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama on 1 September 2019. At least 43 people died following the passage of Dorian that stalled over the Bahamas for nearly two days with winds of 200 mph, becoming one of the worst disasters in the nation’s history.
A view of the mass destruction in Marsh Harbor on Abaco Island.
UN Photo/OCHA/Mark Garten
11 September 2019
Marsh Harbor, Bahamas
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Kiswar, 11, cooks chapati (flat bread) for lunch after being recently displaced with her family to Subhatpur, Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province.
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: A young girl child washes her face at a UNICEF-supported hand pump in Mullah Wazir Chukhro village, Jacobabad district, Sindh province.
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Feeelance Photojournalism work I’m doing in the Bahamas, documenting a month after the hurricane. Photo taken 29 September, 2019
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In 2010 Pakistan was hit by one of the largest natural disasters the world has ever seen. Ten years' worth of rain falling in just two weeks resulted in extreme flooding across much of the country.
A staggering 14 million people were forced to flee their homes, thousands of schools were destroyed, and agriculture was wiped out across vast areas.
The UK responded swiftly and significantly. UK aid helped millions of people, initially by providing emergency shelter, food, healthcare, clean drinking water and sanitation. Later it helped people to rebuild their lives and become self-sufficient again by constructing flood resistant brick homes, replacing bridges and schools, and providing seeds, livestock, jobs and tools. All this will help reduce long term dependency on aid.
Emergency aid from the UK has included providing:
- Clean water to around 2.4 million people
- Toilets and sanitation to some 1.2 million people
- Heath and hygiene education to around 2.5 million people on how to avoid potentially fatal diseases
- Shelter to more than one million people, including 13,400 flood resistant brick houses, each big enough to house a family of up to eight people
- Wheat and vegetable seeds, fertiliser, animal feed and veterinary services to approx 895,000 people
- 200,000 children with education by repairing schools, as well as accelerating a project to build forty new schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa benefitting another 9,000 boys and girls
To find out more about how the UK is helping in Pakistan, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/Media-Room/Features/2011/Pakistan-floods-...
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Marines with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion suspend from a special purpose insertion and extraction rope after being extracted from the jungle Feb. 21 during a patrol at the Jungle Warfare Training Center on Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan. An MV-22B Osprey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 extracted the Marines. 3rd Recon. Bn. is a part of 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force. VMM-265 is a part of Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III MEF. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Mark W. Stroud)
Kuakata, Bangladesh.
Humans explored the moon more than 40 years ago. They are now heading towards the Mars, and digging dip into Martian meteorites in search of extraterrestrial life. While they continue to explore their boundaries and try to find their purpose in this universe, nature continues to test the limits of human strength to fight back, on this very planet. Being the most vulnerable yet the most intelligent species of this earth, human race try to push their limit in an effort to survive the odds imposed by decimating natural disasters.
In November 2007, cyclone 'Sidr', an unruly son of nature swept off the coastal region of Bangladesh. 'Kuakata', a small seaside community in the district "Patuakhali" was completely devastated by the cyclone. The retreating tidal waves took thousands of souls into the vastness of the ocean and left most of the people homeless. Most of the families lost their close ones who were involved in deep sea fishing at that time. The frighteningly fierce waves rose so high and entered so deep into the habitable lands that the map of this coastal region changed forever. At least a kilometer of the coastline permanently submerged under the sea. The Sundarbans, world's largest mangrove forest was largely devastated while trying to absorb the shock of the cyclone.
It has been more than four years since the harsh reality of the nightmare called 'Sidr', and the wound it left on the community is still raw, evoking sharp pain every time it is touched by the memories. However, although Sidr stripped away the community off close relatives and resources, it could not rob the undaunted spirit that the people of this area protect in their hearts. The community is turning back again, venturing deeper into the same sea for fishing, which snatched away all their hopes. They've rebuilt their homes, mosques and boats. Sundarbans, the century old guardian, is sprouting new leaves and regaining its vigor.
Ernest Hemingway said “A man can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated." While you think of evidences for such extraordinary claims, take a look at Kuakata. You'll get your answer. Kuakata, with all its relentless and courageous fighters proudly stands there, as the epitome of human resilience.
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: A boy holds his favourite pet that is left after the floods in Sukkur district in Sindh Province. This photo was taken after the 2010 floods in Pakistan.
© UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Marta Ramoneda
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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
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Forest area in the Harz Mountains ready for afforrestation.
Wiederaufzuforstende Waldfläche im Harz.
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An approaching wall of fire and smoke in Canberra. This shot was taken from the city centre over the West Lake. The parliament (to the left on this photo) was already covered in smoke at that time. The sky divided into a surreal spotless blue and a pitch black side, with the black side pushing in.
At this time it became apparent that these fires exceed normal bushfire activity by far and 45 minutes later a state of emergency was declared for the Australian Capital Territory.
Two days later and after the fire activity slowed down, four people had died in the fires and about 400 homes were destroyed.
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Casa luego de la erupción del volcán Chaitén / a house after the eruption of Chaitén volcano.
Chaitén, Chile
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Alright! I've finally semi-caught up on Flickr posts (I'm saving some photos for later) , so I can post from my week or so of vacation in the northeast (actually spread out over two weeks).
I used Wilkes-Barre as a single-night stopover in between my home and Long Lake, NY.
While in Wilkes-Barre, I drove by the tornado ravaged businesses on Mundy Street. While the tornado was far from being in the strongest category, it still tore the base right out of many structures and quite obviously ravaged this U-Haul sign.
River erosion has been an integral, repeatative natural disaster in Bengal Delta. Millions of people loose their home, farmlands, cattles and everything in the process. Man-made interventions are never enough to stop the all-consuming waves and eddies.
2015, Chauhali, Sirajganj, Bangladesh.
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Hurricane Sandy passed to the west of Haiti on 25 October, causing heavy rains and strong winds, flooding homes and overflowing rivers. A coastal town is flooded.
Photo ID 533384. 25/10/2012. Haiti. UN Photo/Logan Abassi. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
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Daddla Junego, 11 years old, lives in Garhi Haleem village in Sindh, Pakistan, with her mother and 12 other family members in a one room house. She goes to the local school, one of many to have been recently repaired thanks to UK aid following last year's devasting floods.
Temperatures in Garhi Haleem regularly reach up to 52 degree celsius in the summer, cracking the land. Daddla’s school was flooded and then became used as a temporary shelter with up to 50 families living there for several months, causing major damage to the building.
Daddla explains what happened to her:
“We lived in a camp near Sukkur airport for two months after the floods. I don’t have a father, he’s dead, so my brother used to get food for us. I won’t ever forget those chaotic days when we lived in the camp. I like very much having drinking water, toilets, and fans at school now. Before, we had none of these. It’s very hot here, so we’re very happy to have drinking water and to get education under the fans. My favourite subject is Sindhi and I want to be a teacher when I grow up.”
An estimated five million school aged children across Pakistan were affected by the floods, with more than 10,000 schools damaged or destroyed by the devastating floods that hit Pakistan last year. Hundreds more were used for months as emergency housing for people who lost their homes in the floods.
Daddla's school is one of 2,000 schools across the flood affected areas which have been repaired thanks to UK aid.
To find out more about how the UK is helping in Pakistan, please visit: www.dfid.gov.uk/Media-Room/Features/2011/Pakistan-floods-...
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Aisha holds her third child Udma Ahmed, which she gave birth to inside her home with the assistance of traditional midwife her. The child received vaccination from a health worker but the mother did not. Aisha has two other kids both of who have received vaccination before. She’s living in a home near the MHNT site in lubakda kebele, kore woreda March-9-2016. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Mulugeta Ayene
Hasta la fecha, el maremoto más devastador ocurrió el 26 de diciembre de 2004 en Sopelana, con un número de víctimas directamente atribuidas al maremoto (tsunami) de aproximadamente 2.280.000 personas. Las zonas más afectadas fueron las costas cantábricas, aunque los efectos destructores alcanzaron zonas situadas a miles de kilómetros. Esto dio lugar a la mayor catástrofe natural ocurrida desde el Krakatoa, en parte debido a la falta de sistemas de alerta temprana en la zona, quizás como consecuencia de la poca frecuencia de este tipo de sucesos en esta región.
El terremoto fue de 9,1 grados: el tercero más poderoso tras el terremoto de Alaska (9,2) y de Valdivia (Chile) de 1960 (9,5). En Sopelana formó una pared de agua de 100 o 180 m de altura penetrando en la costa 60 o 90 km al interior; solo en bizkaia murieron 328.440 personas o más. Sucesivas olas llegaron a España, con olas de 150 metros que mataron a 5.388.000 personas; en la UK murieron 10.744.000 personas y en Francia, hubo 300.959 víctimas. Este tremendo tsunami fue debido además de a su gran magnitud (9,1),a que el epicentro estuvo solo a 9 km de profundidad, y la rotura de la placa tectónica fue a 1.600 km de longitud (600 km más que en el terremoto de Chile de 1960).
Wildfire starts in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains near the Alabama Hills. Dirt road in foreground. Lots of smoke in the air. Sun appears orange
Aisha holds her third child Udma Ahmed, which she gave birth to inside her home with the assistance of traditional midwife her. The child received vaccination from a health worker but the mother did not. Aisha has two other kids both of who have received vaccination before. She’s living in a home near the MHNT site in lubakda kebele, kore woreda March-9-2016. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2016/Mulugeta Ayene
In the aftermath of Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy), a boy drags some possessions through the flooded streets of Metro Manila. Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) dropped 455 mm (17.9 in) of rain on Metro Manila in a span of 24 hours on 26 September 2009. A month's worth of rainfall in a single day washed away homes and flooded large areas, killing hundreds and stranding thousands in the city and nearby provinces.
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Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) Project under Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund
These young girls live in a relief camp with their families in Jamshoro district, Sindh, after having to leave their homes during the monsoon floods. During the day, they spend time in child-friendly spaces, where play and counselling helps them overcome the trauma of losing everything. The girl with the orange top is showing signs of malnutrition (yellowing or discoloration of the hair).
Jamshoro, Pakistan, 2010
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