Disaster Risk Reduction

Since 2007, Trócaire has been supporting the Greenhands Field School , the first permaculture school in Aceh, Indonesia, the area hit first and hardest by the tsunami.

As we approach the fourth anniversary of the Asian tsunami, Trócaire and partner NGO No Strings have won a major European award for their collaboration on a series of educational videos called ‘Tales of Disasters’ that were inspired by the events of that December day.

This week sees the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Mitch, one of the most powerful and deadly hurricanes on record in Central America. In late October 1998, as Mitch roared through Honduras and Nicaragua, deaths due to severe flooding and landslides made it the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history.

This week is World Disaster Risk Reduction Day. We thought we'd take this opportunity to explain a few points about a cornerstone of our humanitarian programmes.

How Trócaire is helping people in Orissa India, to cope with floods, cyclones and droughts.

A critical part of Trócaire's work during the past year has been helping to avoid disasters in the developing world.

Disasters avoided never make newspaper headlines but they save lives and enable communities to cope better with future crises.