Malteser International - Relief Efforts Chronicle

Relief Efforts Chronicle

Some of the organisation’s most important deployments include:

  • 1956: Refugee aid at the Austro-Hungarian border
  • 1966-1975: Refugee aid in Vietnam
  • Since 1979: Refugee aid in Thailand (for refugees coming from neighboring countries)
  • Since 1980: transport of humanitarian aid to Central and Eastern Europe
  • 1989: humanitarian aid for East German refugees in Budapest
  • 1994-1996: Aid to Rwanda
  • 1999: Kosovo crisis
  • Since 2001: Emergency relief and reconstruction in Myanmar
  • 2004: Refugee aid in Darfur, Sudan
  • 2005:Tsunami relief in South and South-East Asia
  • 2010: Earthquake relief in Haiti and Chile, Flood relief in Pakistan
  • 2011: Earthquake relief in Japan, drought relief in Northern Kenya

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