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Asia/Pacific Emergency Relief

An unbelievable set of disasters swept across Asia-Pacific with a typhoon killing more than 300 people, a tsunami in the Pacific killing hundreds, and on the heels of that, two devastating earthquakes in Indonesian Sumatra.

Relief work in the Philippine capital of Manila was undertaken amidst heavy rain and unsettled weather, said to be the prelude to a possible country strike by another typhoon, “Parma’’,  a category 5 super typhoon that struck northern Luzon at 00:00 GMT on October 3.

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Tsunami in Samoa and Tonga

Tsunami in Samoa and Tonga
(September 2009)

An earthquake-triggered tsunami consumed parts of Samoa, neighbouring American Samoa and Tonga on Tuesday September 8th, leaving 111 confirmed dead and scores more injured. Rescue workers waded their way through coastal village rubble, looking for survivors.

World Vision does not have programmes in the affected area, but sent a Technical Response Team and relief supplies to work with local agencies on the ground.

Typhoon Ketsana

Typhoon Ketsana (September 2009)

Typhoon Ketsana swept across four Asian countries, sparking region-wide flooding and devastation in the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

In the Philippines, more than 2 million people were badly hit by the tropical storm where it first made landfall. Up to 400,000 people were affected in Vietnam, and hundreds others in northern Cambodia and southern Laos. Massive flooding followed in the wake of the typhoon. Children and their families were in urgent need of food, medicine and clean water as the slow process of cleaning up mud and debris began.

Indonesian Earthquake

Indonesian Earthquake (September 2009)

Two massive quakes rocked Indonesian Sumatra on September 9th and 10th about 50 km from the coastal city, Padang with a population of 900,000. An earlier tsunami warning was quickly lifted. This was the third serious earthquake to hit Indonesia in less than a month.

The official death toll could well have exceeded one thousand. Hospitals crumbled along with at least 500 other buildings. There was chaos on the streets as rescue workers dug for survivors. Power was restored slowly which made communications and reporting on the situation very slow and difficult.