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Hurricane Ike

Oct 1, 2015

Disaster relief after Hurricane Ike Hurricane Ike was the second-costliest hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States during the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Ike made its final landfall near Galveston, Texas as a strong Category 2 hurricane, on September...

Haiti

Oct 1, 2015

Disaster relief in Haiti The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne, approximately 25 km (16 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time (21:53...

Women’s Health And Welfare

Oct 1, 2015

“At the same time that women produce 75 to 90 percent of food crops in the world, they are responsible for running households. Sociologists refer to this as the feminization of poverty, where two out of every three poor adults are women. This then also affects...

Sanitation

Oct 1, 2015

An estimated 2.6 billion people lack access to satisfactory sanitation globally. If the current trend continues, by 2015 there will be 2.7 billion people without access to basic sanitation. According to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, regions with the lowest...

Borewells

Oct 1, 2015

Over one billion people in the developing world have inadequate access to water. Safe water and hygiene have the potential to take a bite out of the world’s disease problem. Improving access to a acceptable sanitation services helps to keep people healthy and safe—it...

Orphanages

Oct 1, 2015

India has the largest number of estimated orphaned children in the world—31 million. Orphans and abandoned children are in desperate need of care. While some parents are unable to care for their youngsters, others are pressured by government regulations to abandon...