IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

For up to date information on the tsunami in Samoa visit:

Relief Web, a UN site, collates information from many organisations - governments, media, NGOs etc - around the world on disasters and emergencies.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/srch.nsf/doc304SearchResults?OpenForm&query=samoa+tsunami&view=rwallsppublished&archived=not('1')&offset=0&hits=25&sortby=rwpubdate-rwpubdatedisplay&sortdirection=descending&mode=simpleall

For information on the Philippines floods following Typhoon Ketsana, visit

CBBC, the children's service of the BBC, for a short video:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8270000/newsid_8279500/8279592.stm

Relief Web for collated information from governments, development agencies, media etc:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/srch.nsf/doc304SearchResults?OpenForm&query=philippines+floods&cc=phl&view=rwallsppublished&archived=not('1')&offset=0&hits=25&sortby=rwpubdate-rwpubdatedisplay&sortdirection=descending&mode=simpleall

 HOW CAN WE HELP? 

See the following:

From the UK Department for International Development and the Disasters Enmergency Committee:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.dfid.gov.uk/emergencies/dec.pdf

Five Ways You Can Help Disaster Victims

from the Emergency Response Director, DERA International

http://www.disasters.org/dera/library/wp_2005_9.pdf