Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous landlocked country, is prone to significant natural disasters causing both death and infrastructure damage every year. According to the records of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MoES) of Kyrgyzstan for the last 12 years, 3,455 mudflows occurred and more than 13,000 families were displaced due to natural hazards in the southern part of the country.
In this context of instable conditions, ACTED implemented, from March 2007 to April 2008, a project titled “Integrated Community Based Disaster Preparedness in Southern Kyrgyzstan” funded by the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department, which targeted 35 disaster prone villages of Batken, Jalalabat and Osh provinces.
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Category: News August 30th, 2008
Myanmar: Six months after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, ACTED is bringing emergency relief to the populations in Labutta township by cleaning water ponds and distributing fishing nets and other daily items.
Category: Brief August 29th, 2008
Bringing relief to cyclone Nargis affected populations
Three months after the disaster in Myanmar, early and longer term relief is still urgently needed in the Ayeyarwady Delta. The unsafe living conditions of the affected population are at the heart of ACTED and its partners’ livelihood revitalisation and rehabilitation projects.
The category 3 Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar on 2 and 3 May 2008, was the most devastating natural disaster in Myanmar’s history, and the assessment of damage and losses confirms a similar scale of impact to that of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in Indonesia in 2004. Clear data on the extent of the damage is still difficult to obtain, but ongoing assessments confirm the gravity of the situation. An estimated 2.4 million people have been heavily affected out of 7.35 million people living in the Ayeyarwady Delta area, with 486,660 destroyed homes, 350,000 damaged homes together with 1,255 schools estimated as destroyed. The cyclone wiped out the livelihoods of families, flooding over 600,000 hectares of agricultural land, killing up to 50 per cent of animals, destroying fishing boats and sweeping away food stocks and agricultural implements. It also caused considerable economic hardship, heavy loss of livestock, depleted assets, disrupted markets and led to very high inflation for basic items, thus resulting in extremely vulnerable households. Read more…
Category: News August 28th, 2008
In July 2007, ACTED Chad started a drinking water access and hygiene promotion programme in Eastern Chad. This programme, in collaboration with OFDA, has permitted the construction of 13 wells and two underground dams in the canton of Khachim al Wadi, doubling the drinking water access in 9 villages.
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Category: News August 27th, 2008
Topics covered in this newsletter:
Focus Myanmar: The devastating Cyclone Nargis has wiped out all livelihoods in the Ayeyarwady Delta region. ACTED and its partners have made this heavily affected region their new projects target…
Chad: The assistance to Sudanese refugees is extended to the rural population of Abeche (article)
Sri Lanka: ACTED is going North
Sri Lanka: Livelihoods revitalised
Tajikistan: Bridging the Digital Divide - setting up Agriculture Information Marketing System
Tajikistan: The most remote school in Tajikistan
Lebanon: ACTED lands at the exhibition in Nabatieh
Uganda: The first results of the voucher for work system
Indonesia: Community Contracting, a new take on cash for work
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Category: News, Newsletters August 19th, 2008
