Full Coverage: Emergency relief

30.03.2005 News of Monday's Indian Ocean earthquake triggered rapid movement of people away from high risk coastal areas. But this was thanks to old-fashioned acts of good community neighbours rather than expensive tsunami warning systems.

30.03.2005 North West Frontier Province in Pakistan focusses on rehabilitation of the communities affected by recent heavy rain, snowfall, avalanches, landslides and flooding.

30.03.2005 BANGKOK, Mar 29 (IPS) - Although science and technology offer time-tested early warning systems to detect deadly tsunamis, countries that share the Indian Ocean are learning fast about the pivotal role the public and local communities can play to save lives.

23.03.2005 The Emergency Capacity-Building Initiative, funded with a grant of $5.18 million over two years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, enables the voluntary agencies to expand the pool of qualified aid workers to improve the speed, quality and effectiveness of emergency response in tsunami affected areas.

22.03.2005 In the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami, seven of the world's leading humanitarian organizations are collaborating--through a grant from the Gates Foundation--to expand the pool of qualified aid workers, improve efficiency, and better measure results.

21.03.2005 How is the £300 million donated by the British people to the Tsunami Earthquake Appeal going to be spent? The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has announced the breakdown between immediate assistance and long term reconstruction.

18.03.2005 Mobile documentation centre for tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka offer free legal advice and assistance in obtaining personal legal papers that were lost in the December disaster.

10.03.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C. Mar 10 (OneWorld) - Countries striving to recover from natural disasters and war need to revive local agriculture as a top priority, according to a group of experts who say they can help.

10.03.2005 A Ferrari raffled by a relief organization in California will be won on Thursday, and driven away in good conscience, by one who donates $1,000 or more towards the organization's efforts to help rebuild coastal South Asia fishing communities. Eligible donations are being accepted until Thursday evening.

07.03.2005 Donors may have pledged billions of dollars in tsunami aid, but so far ravaged Sri Lanka has received less than $75 million as against the promised $8 billion.

04.03.2005 The reconstruction of Aceh requires more logs than Indonesia can provide from legal sources. The government's answer is to fell trees in the local Gunung Leuser National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Can the international community step in with alternative supplies?

03.03.2005 To provide immediate relief – clean water, a tent – is straightforward enough. To figure out what’s appropriate as the next level of help involves getting closer….

Anuradha Vittachi, Director of OneWorld UK, recently returned from a harrowing visit to Sri Lanka, the country of her birth

02.03.2005 Brad David and Saji Prelis flew from Washington D.C. to Sri Lanka recently to do a needs assessment ahead of launching a post-tsunami reconstruction project in the country. "Our goal was to find out from Sri Lankans what happened and how they reacted...True enough, reality was far more complex and amazing than the media sensational hype," David told OneWorld.