The M2 Presswire: The Mozambique Flood Disaster

natural disasters). Gallup et al. (2003, pp.41, 46) have estimated that natural disasters in Latin America over the last 30 years have cost up to $3.3 billion and in extreme disasters costs can reach 10 per cent of a country’s GDP. This, coupled with the fact that they suffer regularly from natural disasters due to their location, means that they find it harder to recover from them. The destruction of crops causes vast economic loss which cannot be regained as farmers rely on monoculture. Furthermore, many buildings in developing countries are often built from weak materials which causes mass destruction and costly re-construction which these countries cannot afford.

Since I read the entire book already, I will summarize the basics. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World basically tells two separate yet relatable stories that are completely in different styles. So the “Hard-Boiled Wonderland” chapters, reminds us of the old style of American hard-boiled detective fiction, which is in a science-fiction type setting. The narrator this book finds himself caught up in a conflict that’s between the Calcutecs, which works for the quasi-governmental System, the Semiotics, and the criminals that work for the Factory. It was said that Calcutecs provided and protected information, while the Semiotics stole data and sold it to and the black market. The narrator of this book works for a Calcutec scientist,

Throughout the novel, Candide, Voltaire repeatedly exploits the nature of humans to consider other's situations and lifestyles to be better than that of their own. Voltaire uses Candide's journeys to portray the human assumption that the grass is always greener on the other side. This theme is shown in Candide's strife for companionship, his experience with wealth, and his interaction with other characters. The situations that develop the theme do so in such a way that the reader is able to understand and relate to the aspirations of Candide.

The flood killed approximately 2,209 people. This included 396 children and 99 local families (Begos, 2014).

Many were left homeless with a lak of food, clothes, and stricken with disease. Most relief they received was from the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabitation Administration).

It is time to fully address the issue of the impending world water crisis by assisting the areas currently experiencing the crisis. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most in need of international assistance, and a region in which we are already supplying aid. However, our current policies are not getting the

Floods are common natural disasters that occur all over the world. Flooding has devastating impacts on the lives of people who are affected by the disaster. Floods can ruin crops, demolish homes, take innocent lives and cause many other types of hardships. These disasters can also leave people with a financial burden and emotional effects. Studies have shown that floods have led to various sickness and health complications. This common disaster has recently taken place in the state of Louisiana. Louisiana has been suffering from an enormous flood and has left people without homes, without food, and without personal belongings.

Predicting that a flooding actually happens in the near future, there’s little to no possibility that’d we survive because it’s not affordable. Living in a capitalist society has led to homelessness and poverty. People aren’t able to afford their everyday needs, and if they do it’s the minimum. Simply because the government chooses who they want to help, people heavily rely on programs like welfare, food stamps etc as a financial aid throughout their whole lives. People are depending on programs like these which are only meant for a period of time but eventually becomes a necessity to get by because struggling to survive is became normal. Things that are needed to survive like affordable housing, food, clothing and education have become

During my freshmen year I wasn’t very active in my community. I had a lot of spare time, but never participated in any events. During the end of freshman year, I really wanted to do something to give back to my community. I would see my little brother struggle with his homework and realized that many children at school might be struggling too. I decided to volunteer at my old elementary school, Lincoln Elementary School. I volunteered with a program named Engage 360. I went during my freshmen summer and spent 4 hours a day with the children. I was a teacher aid. I would help my assigned teacher with anything she needed. Whether it was with supplies, taking care of a few students, or helping the students with anything. That summer each individual

Nations worldwide are searching for approaches to manage risks, particularly those related to or aggravated by climate change. Insurance is generally utilized by people and associations crosswise over most industrialized nations as one of a bundle of measures to oversee risks. The utilization of insurance tool is currently likewise growing in developing countries, especially in rising economies, and many wonder whether insurance could help third world countries lessen the risks of extreme hazards, which have such destroying impacts on national economies, human welfare, and the development measures. This section will discuss the current role of insurance industry in developing countries’ disaster risk reduction.

At the community level, from my observation in work, I recognized that the local communities have the best capability to adapt with the adverse impacts. People had managed to protect their livelihood resources such as cropping fields, ponds, aquaculture farms and domestic facilities. For example, in the early rainy season, some focal groups of local residents are formed. These groups are responsible for monitoring the water levels and protecting proactively the irrigation facilities and the critical areas of dykes. In order to cope with inundation, local residents have to work together to dredge the small channels and to upgrade the paddy field embankments when they get the heavy rain forecast. They have stored fresh water and changed in their water use to cope with potential floods, storm, inundation and drought.

Bangladesh is extremely susceptible to hazards such as earthquakes and cyclones and repeatedly suffers from two types of flooding, namely river flooding, and coastal flooding from storm surges in the Bay of Bengal. The majority of the country’s 162 million population live on the flood plains of the Rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra. The floods actually help the farmers by depositing fertile silt and this enables them to grow rice, sugar, jute and other crops. However, when the floods are too intense, the inundation destroys lives, crops and animals. Bangladesh is predominantly an agricultural country together with livestock, poultry, fisheries and forestry and where lives and livelihood depend on this for food security and employment. Being a developing

One of these lowlands, the Una basin, presented particularly severe problems of flooding. In 1999, about 160,000 families lived in this area which corresponded to 60% of the municipality total area (Pinheiro et al, 2007).

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the oldest humanitarian organization, humanitarianism can be defined as the independent, impartial and neutral delivery of relief to victims that are at risk of death, either because of natural disasters or armed conflicts. Across the decades, this concept has been changing; it was never the same. At the beginning it was only focused on certain type of people, such as soldiers. Nowadays, humanitarianism embrace all people without discrimination of any type. Over time the world is experiencing new and stronger natural disasters due to climate change; moreover, wars and conflicts between nations continue to create catastrophes all around the world. If humanitarian organizations are responsible for the provision of assistance to victims, how do their actions affect the development? Humanitarianism has not been the same since the beginning; battles and world wars shaped its concept. So, what effect produced humanitarian actions in those wars and battles? And what effect do those actions have these days? It is clear that humanitarianism have evolve through the decades and have change its ways of acting. This paper is aimed to analyze the influence of humanitarianism over the years and how that influence affects development. With this examination it is hoped to understand the role of humanitarian actions in development and their role nowadays.

Knowing that poverty and disaster risks go hand in hand, it was wise on World Vision to implement objectives that would focus of both DRR and poverty reduction collectively. These objectives could not have been done by just supplying aid and needed resources to the damaged cities. There is a fine line between supplying aid and help. Being in such a traumatic event, it completely broke apart communities into weaker and, even more, vulnerable pieces. In retrospect, simply supplying aid through resources to these broken pieces would have done more harm, as it would deepen the most vulnerable and poorest communities’ dependency on foreign aid. Any sense of upward movement of development and prosperity— gone. World Vision centered its projects on community involvement in order to provide proper help— help to create network systems of support, help to educate people on problem risk awareness, help to make use of available resource found in the populations, help to develop and put back those vulnerable pieces back into well-developed societies, help that would allow Honduras to prosper from.