Previous Emergency Responses

Japan Earthquake	Kyrgyzstan Emergency Response	Haiti Earthquake
Save the Children assisted children & families affected by the March 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami.	Save the Children is providing relief to children & families caught up in a wave of ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan.	On January 12, 2010 an earthquake devastated Haiti. Save the Children immediately launched an emergency response. One year on we have helped nearly 900,000 children & their families.
Niger Food Crisis	Asia-Pacific in Crisis	Tsunami
378,000 children in Niger are at risk of starvation this winter. Save the Children have responded.	In September 2009, Typhoon Ketsana devastated the Philippines & Vietnam, and an earthquake and tsunami rocked Indonesia & Samoa.	The Indian Ocean tsunamis on 26 December 2004 was the world's largest natural disaster in the last 40 years. Save the Children responded.
Myanmar Cyclone Giri	Bangladesh-Cyclone Aila	Burma (Myanmar)
Myanmar Cyclone Giri left thousands of children hungry and homeless.	Hundreds of thousands of people were stranded with no food, water & shelter after Cyclone Aila swept across West Bengal in India & Bangladesh.	About 200,000 children are among the half a million people left impoverished and living in makeshift homes more than a year after Cyclone Nargis devastated southern Myanmar in May 2008.
Chile Earthquake
We have provided water and sanitation, shelter and protection to over 30,000 people including 17,500 children since a huge earthquake struck close to the Chilean city of Concepcion in late February 2010.