Tajikistan

19 ربيع الثاني 1434

Tajikistan: overcoming trauma after an earthquake

By Abdulfattoh Shafiev in Tajikistan Five-year-old Mohira is still afraid to go outside in the mornings and is even too frightened to open the front door. The memory of a terrifying experience has stayed with her until today. On 13 May 2012, a powerful 5.7 earthquake hit eastern Tajikistan; Mohira’s village was near the epicenter and t...
Red Crescent Youth volunteers promote positive attitudes towards people living with HIV
6 محرم 1433

Red Crescent Youth volunteers promote positive attitudes towards people living with HIV

Iso Azonov, a young volunteer of the Red Crescent of Tajikistan and first-year student at the Tajik National University, tries to play his role convincingly in front ...
A lifeline for the elderly in Tajikistan’s capital
23 ذو القعدة 1432

A lifeline for the elderly in Tajikistan’s capital

At the entrance of an anonymous building in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, we meet Baba Valya, a 76-year-old woman who is coming back from the grocery store ...
Providing the source of life
11 رمضان 1432

Providing the source of life

In many areas of the world, access to basic health care is limited and a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation exposes children to serious, but preventable, ...
Red Crescent in action as mudslides hit Tajikistan
12 رجب 1432

Red Crescent in action as mudslides hit Tajikistan

By Joe Lowry Floods and mudslides are causing havoc in one of Central Asia’s most disaster-prone countries, and the local Red Crescent is at the forefront of the...
Tajikistan: Red Crescent responds to worst disaster in over a decade
27 جمادى الثانية 1431

Tajikistan: Red Crescent responds to worst disaster in over a decade

Torrential rain, snow, avalanches, floods, mudslides, rock flows and landslides: they were all thrown at Tajikistan this spring.
Tajikistan: volunteers help government tackle polio outbreak
14 جمادى الثانية 1431

Tajikistan: volunteers help government tackle polio outbreak

About 400 volunteers from the Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan, with the support of the International Federation, are currently involved in a government-led ...
20 محرم 1431

Tajikistan: Earthquake in the Pamir mountains affects over 6,000 people

Gishkhun is one of 20 villages in the mountains of central Tajikistan that was seriously damaged by a magnitude 5.
22 رجب 1430

Tajikistan: recovering from mudslides and floods

The tent camp set up in Khuroson, in south-east Tajikistan, is full of life as villagers struggle to recover after their homes were buried under a metre-thick layer ...
Tajikistan: disaster preparedness reduces risks and saves lives
8 شوال 1429

Tajikistan: disaster preparedness reduces risks and saves lives

A sunny, late September morning in the remote, mountain village of Kachamandi, in Rasht province, Tajikistan (population 2,000).
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