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Why Microfinance Can't Help Haiti
Microfinance is the key to poverty, but why can't it deal with natural disasters? ...
Australia declares floods natural disaster
declared the recent flooding in New South Wales a natural disaster. In recent days, large areas ... for compensation from the government in the case of natural disasters. The damage is expected to run ... (Australia, drought, extreme weather, flooding, natural disasters) ...
2009 benign year for natural disasters
orkaan ida.jpg Natural disasters caused considerably less damage last ... , Munich Re, natural disasters) ... northern Spain and southwest France in January. In 2009, natural catastrophes killed ten thousand ...
Dutch get frivolous over Haiti disaster
Hz. (aid, Dutch, earth quake, Haiti, haiti tragedy, natural disaster, news, radio show, support) ... place after the 2004 tsunami disaster. Around the clock The national radio station ... by a flood disaster in 1953. A hurricane-force storm broke the dikes and flooded the southwestern part ...
Australia declares disaster as fires raze homes
been evacuated and state Prime Minister Colin Barnett has declared the blaze a natural disaster ... of Victoria last February in the country's worst natural disaster of modern times. Wildfires ...
Aid operation in Haiti is a “vanity parade”
and relief, natural disasters, United Nations) ... The United Nations urgently needs to appoint a High Commissioner for Disaster and Relief. Our foreign affairs commentator Bernard Hammelburg believes a special UN commissioner could be very useful in a disaster like ...
Disaster is the only certainty in Haiti
of the natural disaster. Earthquakes are not common in Haiti, but tropical storms are. In 2008 ... of nature. The earthquake is just the latest in a series of tribulations which have ravaged the impoverished ... and there were many deaths." Food shortages The disasters also meant that the harvest ...
Anger mounts as Haitians see little aid
been made homeless or otherwise hit by the disaster. Haitian President René Préval has said ... . Aid slow to get underway in Haiti - EPA Anger is natural, as time is Anger is natural ...
Disasters and Media: A world to win
disasterallspice1650.jpg When a natural disaster hits, it is important that people ... in countries which are frequently affected by disasters ought to know. But climate change means hurricanes and floods are taking place in regions that are unfamiliar with coping with disasters. & ...
18 killed in Ghana goldmine disaster
killing at least 18 people, including 14 women, in one of the worst mining disasters to hit the African ... no other option in order to feed their families.. Ghana is endowed with natural resources ...
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