During the last week of May 2017, Cyclone Mora swept over Sri Lanka, with heavy rainfall and extreme winds, causing flooding and landslides, and resulting in 177 casualties and 112 missing persons. Residents of the
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The SSIO began providing disaster relief after Hurricane Matthew ravaged the eastern peninsula of Haiti on 4th October 2016, home to about 1.4 million people, mostly farmers. Efforts began with a helicopter reconnaissance mission to the remote town of
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An earthquake in early December 2016 shook Aceh, resulting in 103 deaths and the reported displacement of 22,729 people, with 11,000 homes damaged. Sathya Sai volunteers in Medan sprang into action and
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Each year the monsoon season brings flooding and landslides throughout Nepal, and during this year’s season, SSIO members
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Following major earthquakes in April and May 2015, the SSIO of Nepal helped the local people rebuild and restore normalcy in their lives. In Arghakhachi, SSIO volunteers initiated a water project on 5th November 2015 to provide water to indigent villagers. The system transported mountain…
ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇOn 14th April 2016, a strong earthquake of magnitude 6.5 rattled the Kumamoto area of Kyushu, followed by a second quake of magnitude 7.3 on 16th April 2016. The two earthquakes caused the death of at least 49 people and injuries to about 3,000 others….
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Indonesia Besides organising devotional activities, the Sai Study Group of Indonesia (SSGI) distributed food and 2,585 packages of daily necessities to underprivileged people. Volunteers also
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After a Category 5 cyclone struck Fiji on 20 February 2016, the Sathya Sai International Organisation of Zone 3 – Australia and Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Zealand, sprang into action immediately. Sathya Sai volunteers started offering hot meals, food packets, drinking water, clothes…
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In 2015, the Disaster Relief Team of Zone 7 of the SSIO served refugees passing through Austria’s border with Germany in Kufstein, Austria. Up to 1,000 displaced people from war-ravaged countries passed through this area daily
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A major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck Nepal on 25th April 2015. The natural disaster wreaked havoc on a massive scale. Thousands of people have lost their lives, and an estimated 1.4 million people are without food. The densely populated capital city, Kathmandu, home to…
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