Islamic Relief Worldwide was one of the first humanitarian organisations on the scene in the aftermath of the earthquake, delivering food and aid to thousands of survivors.

Our staff set up the first organised camp for displaced people, eleven days after the earthquake, on a football field in Parc Sainte Claire

Three months on, Islamic Relief’s is shifting focus from emergency relief to reconstruction and rehabilitation.

Cyclone Nargis was the worst natural disaster in the history of Myanmar and the most devastating cyclone to strike Asia since 1991. The Cyclone struck Myanmar on the night of 2 May 2008, making landfall in the Ayerwaddy Delta, wreaking havoc for about 12 hours. With wind speeds of up to 125 mph (200 km/h), the damage was compounded by a storm surge and flooding of up to 15 feet.

This report has been completed by an independent evaluator to evaluate Islamic Relief's response to the emergency.

When the earthquake struck Pakistan-administered Kashmir on the morning of 8 October 2005, it changed the region in an instant.

With the epicentre in Muzaffarabad, towns and villages across northern Pakistan, as well as India and Afghanistan were affected. 73,000 people were killed and many thousands more were injured. Entire villages were left under rubble and 3.3 million people lost their homes.

They are a generation growing up without the support, protection and love that others their age can take for granted.

Worn shoes, ragged clothes and shy smiles, the children of Afghanistan are the innocent victims of an ongoing tragedy. Their past has been scarred by over two decades of conflict and their future is as fragile as the politics of their devastated country. Many have been orphaned by war and have known little more than grief, violence, hunger and poverty. At the mercy of events beyond their understanding or control, they are the children the world has forgotten.

“It was as if the water, in an unimaginable rage, had washed away people’s lives and wiped out their history. It washed away houses and carried sea vessels from the ocean and deposited them on top of buildings and bridges. It carried tractors, coaches and all types of vehicles into the middle of rice fields. It reduced massive concrete structures and multi-storey buildings to rubble. And it carried dead bodies and scattered them everywhere.

As I walked around I could smell death beneath my feet.

The devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia claimed around 200,000 lives in 12 countries and left over 1.5 million people homeless.

On 26th December 2004, millions of lives were changed forever. The earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia literally shook the earth and touched people the world over. There had been nothing like it in living memory and yet memories are already starting to fade.

July 2006 saw the small country of Lebanon come under a relentless attack that lasted six weeks and completely changed the life of the whole nation. In a short space of time one million people, nearly a quarter of Lebanon’s population, fled from towns and villages in the south of the country, leavingbehind their homes, possessions and sometimes even their loved ones.

One of the worst natural disasters of our time

- 73,000 killed
- 128,000 injured
- 3.5 million homeless

On the morning of 8th October 2005 a powerful earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale hit northern Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. Muzaffarabad and surrounding areas in Pakistan-administered Kashmir were the worst-affected. Entire towns and villages were wiped out and the earthquake caused massive landslides, cutting communities off from the outside world.

On the dusty barren plains of Mandera in north-east Kenya I saw sights I will never forget. I watched humans and animals drink the same dirty, diseased-infested water, desperate to quench their thirst. I saw rotten animal carcasses scattered everywhere with frightening frequency.

The villagers and pastoralists for whom this is home carry a look of fear and anguish. Every day they watch helplessly as their livestock die.