Random Quotes

“Our lives were finished, we had given up hope and were going to abandon our fields. But your seed, tillers, diesel and fertiliser came along and helped us to plant.”

— Burmese farmer thanking CWS partners through ACT International for Cyclone Nargis relief

Past Emergencies

 

Please select links below to get more information about the humanitarian crisis and CWS's response. Many of these situations continue but the onset phase is now over.

 

Pakistan Floods 2010

 

Pakistan Displacement Emergency 2009

 

Darfur Crisis 2009

 

Zimbabwe Crisis 2008

 

Sri Lanka Crisis 2009

 

Asian Tsunami 26 December 2004: Five years on

 

Pacific Tsunami 30 September 2009

 

Philippines flooding September/October 2009

 

West Sumatra earthquake 30 September 2009

 

Gaza Crisis December 2008/January 2009

 

Australian Bushfires, February 2009

 

Fiji Floods, January 2009

 

Congo War, 2008

 

Papua New Guinea Floods, December 2008

 

Ethiopia Famine, November 2008

 

Pakistan Earthquake, October 2008

 

Haiti Hurricanes,  August/September 2008

 

Bihar floods, India September 2008

 

Cyclone Nargis, Burma May 2008

 

Sichuan earthquake, China May 2008

 

Asian Tsunami, 26 December 2004. Includes reports from 2005 and 2007