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3. Disaster Relief
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Almost every single year, central Vietnam struck by at least 4 typhoons resulted heavy floods and
landslides in many provinces (as listed below). The typhoons, floods and landslides kill people, destroy
and damage houses, roads, schools, and health clinics. The flooding contaminated water sources
damaged rice crops and family reserved food. Especially in the years of severed storms and persistent
flood as 1999, 2006, 2007. In such situations, The Compassion Flower team often quickly distribute
instance noodles, rice, clean water making kits, condensed milk, sugar, salt, noodles, warm clothes and
cash in responding to the need with hope to give them the means and strength to get back to normal life
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- High mountain villages (tribal villages)
The isolated and primitive villages in high mountain of Aluoi, located along Lao-Viet border, get struck by typhoons, flood
(caused by heavy rain) and landslide almost yearly. Most villagers are farmers, however they do not know how to cultivate
crops or own agricultural lands effectively. Furthermore sometimes their reserve food and crops are completely wiped away
by nature disasters. Permission for accessing to these places is limited, therefore we usually borrow a place at the near by
village to distribute the gifts. The villagers have to walk several hours to receive the donation
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Coastal villages of Thua Thien Hue are prone to nature disasters. In 2006 nearly 2000 houses at Phu Loc were almost
destroyed and 30,2000 were roofed off or collapsed by Xengsane typhoon. There are no public shelter in the province so
the victims, whose roofs were blown off have been moiling around relative places. Only less than 15% of those affected
houses could completely repair the roofs. In most of the cases the repairing process is incomplete because the families don’t
have money to buy enough iron sheets or any other kind of materials for the roofing, the government and NGOs aids are
not enough to fix the damages. Apart, the materials are not available locally, market prices have also risen by 30% and
stocks are depleted as demands are surpassing the supply.
Several villages in the mountain side of coastal provinces of Phu Loc and Phu Vang,These villages, where majority of the
people earn their living from farming, often encountered with landslide, flood and strong storms/typhoon. There were not
many houses that were as damaged as those on the seaside villages by Xengsane typhoon in 2006. However, damages In
2007, many villages of Phong Dien and Quang Dien Provinces were buried in floods for 6 weeks. Most crops and farming
equipments were totally destroyed. Victims of flood in those areas were in desperate need for food, water and fuel.
People in isolated swamp villages of Hue rural areas are still living in primitive conditions. They do not have health facilities,
proper roads or safe drinking water. To reach to these villages you would need to walk through a 3km dust road before
reaching the river side, where the motor boat will take you to the village in a 50 minute sail. There are around 150 families in
each village. Most live in a boat or bamboo hut. The main income source in this village is from fishing. However after the
Xengsane typhoon in 2006 and the flood of 2007, several boats were damaged and their fishing facilities were either lost or
severely broken which affecting their livelihoods seriously.
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