Tagged: natural disaster
Foreign ministers meeting in Montreal on Monday should agree to cancel Haiti’s outstanding $890 million international debt in the wake of the devastating earthquake, international agency Oxfam said today.
Oxfam's Haiti Country Director, Yolette Etienne, talks to Channel 4's Jon Snow about Oxfam's staff response to the earthquake, the situation in Haiti and the personal impacts of the earthquake.
Oxfam International is preparing to close its response to Indian Ocean tsunami at the end of this month, four years after the disaster. Oxfam and its local partner organizations assisted 2.5 million people in seven tsunami-affected countries in the largest emergency program in its history.
Oxfam's humanitarian response has provided support to around half a million people so far.
The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 caused widespread devastation, killing 227,000 people across 14 countries, with Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand the hardest hit. This exceptional emergency resulted in Oxfam’s largest ever emergency response.

