Heavy rains, flash floods,
storms and landslides continue to caused widespread devastation in
many Asian countries.
Across South and East Asia, volunteers
and staff from the Red Cross and Red Crescent have been responding
to the disasters by helping rescue people, distributing emergency
relief and providing essential services, such as health care
and clean water.
27 December 2007 Red Cross volunteers rescue landslide victims in central Java It was supposed to be a quiet holiday for Marsito, who, like many Indonesians, was enjoying a one-week, end of year vacation with his family. But that all quickly changed early on the morning of 26 December, when news came through of deadly landslides in at least nine areas of the neighbouring central Java district of Karanganyar. Read
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Disaster management
