The enormous suffering of the people of Venezuela has inspired the SSIO in Latin America to assist families in need. Venezuela was one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations back in the 1970s. The devastating economic crisis and food shortages have
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A volcanic eruption (Volcan de Fuego) on Sunday, 3 June 2018 near the capital city of Guatemala created havoc with many dead and missing and thousands of families losing their land and crops. Multiple additional eruptions followed in the next
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A number of powerful earthquakes hit the Indonesian island of Lombok in late July 2018. A 6.9 magnitude tremor on 29 July 2018 triggered panic and was also felt on the neighbouring island of Bali. The most severe earthquake occurred
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Due to heavy rains, the rivers Galana and Sabaki flooded many homesteads and thousands of people became homeless in eastern Kenya during April and May 2018. Many areas of Kilifi County had been affected by floods and the victims were
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Since 8 August 2018, an unprecedented wave of catastrophic floods has brought the Indian state of Kerala to a halt, with conditions only worsening. The current reports indicate that hundreds of people have perished and over 300,000 have been displaced,
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Maria, a category 4 hurricane, struck Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. It is regarded as one of the worst natural disasters on record, causing catastrophic damage and a major humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. Officially, at least 51 people
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Volunteer with the SSIO-USA’s National Disaster Relief Team (NDRT): Register here: https://tinyurl.com/SaiNDRT Email us: ndrt.us@gmail.com Within a span of two weeks, the southern United States, several countries in Central America and adjacent Caribbean islands were hit by two hurricanes that
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August, 2017 An unprecedented Category 4 hurricane (Hurricane Harvey) has devastated much of the coastal and eastern areas in Texas, USA, with catastrophic flooding conditions and 54 counties impacted. As of now, eight fatalities have been reported, an estimated 8,000
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After hurricane Matthew ravaged the eastern peninsula of Haiti where about 1.4 million people live–most of them farmers–the SSIO initiated relief activities. The efforts began with a helicopter reconnaissance mission to the town of Jeramie–one of the farthest and most
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Since our last report dated December 13th, 2016, the SSIO-Indonesia deployed a second team of volunteers to visit and work with children. Given the traumatic events of December 7th, when an earthquake of 6.5 magnitude struck the island of Sumatra
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