Heavy rains, flash floods,
storms and landslides continue to cause 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.
This year's destruction comes following
two particularly harsh storm and flood seasons in 2006 and 2007, which left many
poor residents struggling to recover.
Note: Information about Cyclone Nargis, which hit Myanmar on 2 May 2008 can be found on this page.
19 March 2009 Bangladesh: Rebuilding lives battered by disaster When Cyclone Sidr struck the southwestern region of Bangladesh on the dreadful night of 15 November, 2007, 85-year-old Oazed Mridha Fakir and his wife Anwara Begum, 50, were among the 8.9 million people affected. Living in the Moheshkatha village of Patuakhali, a district devastated by Sidr, this impoverished couple recalls the horror of that night when their lives changed forever. Read
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Disaster management
