Bangladesh Cyclone

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Latest News 11/19/2007 Cyclone Sidr: A Child’s Account 11/19/2007 World Vision Appealing for US $2.1 million for Bangladesh 11/16/2007 Thousands Homeless in Bangladesh ... 11/15/2007 World Vision’s Cyclone Shelters Housing 20,000 ...

World Vision Appealing for US $2.1 million to Continue Bangladesh Response

World Vision, the Christian humanitarian agency, is appealing for $2.1 million to provide an aid package that includes temporary shelter for more than 50,000 people whose homes were torn to shreds by Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. When Disaster Strikes How your audience can help How we respond to disasters “The scale of the devastation is enormous. It is very hard to get to some areas due to fallen trees. There is need wherever we look,” said Vince Edwards, World Vision’s national director in Bangladesh. “We need to get bundles of tin sheeting to these families living out in the open,” said Edwards. “We are going to focus our efforts on the worst affected: people who have completely lost their homes, women-headed households, the poorest of the poor and those families who have children with disabilities.” Read more ... Additional Resources Cyclone Sidr: A Child’s Account Reuters AlertNet Relief Web Other emergency responses		“Our house was taken away like a toy," said 11-year-old Rika. “We found it (later) … but without a roof and wall." photo by Amio Ascension/World Vision> More than 43,000 people living in seven of World Vision’s program areas have been made homeless or had their homes badly damaged. Photos by Ferdaus Daud Haider/ World Vision >> see more photos Contact us for expert interviews, photos, b-roll and other resources.
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Nirmal, a day-laborer, stands next to the remains of his house with his two children — his son Shourove, 9 and daughter Suma, 4. photo by Raphael Palma/World Vision Before the cyclone hit, World Vision staff helped evacuate some 20,000 people to cyclone shelters. photo by Ferdaus Daud Haider/World Vision Women wait for emergency relief items after Cyclone Sidr pummeled the coast of Bangladesh. photo by Raphael Palma/World Vision Current World Vision distributions include flattened rice and molasses or sugar. photo by Amio Ascension/World Vision In the coming days World Vision expects to focus on shelter and household livelihoods through agricultural interventions. photo by Raphael Palma/World Vision Before the cyclone hit, World Vision staff helped evacuate some 20,000 people to cyclone shelters. photo by Ferdaus Daud Haider/World Vision

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