Disaster Relief Summit – Call for Participants

Disaster relief summit to address the world’s increasing need of more efficient disaster response 30th July, London – NGOs, UN agencies, Governments, Military & Defence representatives, and private sector experts will gather in Washington D.C. to discuss the best practices and collaborations for effective disaster relief. Recently, natural and man-made disasters have occurred in different […]

Viva Con Agua Brings Clean Water to Rwanda – Water is Life

Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli is a charitable organisation based in St. Pauli, Hamburg (Germany), campaigning for clean drinking water worldwide. Besides the air we breathe, water is the most fundamental source of life. Water creates life, water is life. Water means healthy living, happy living. For Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli this […]

Habitat for Humanity Philippines

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, Christian organization that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action worldwide. Habitat for Humanity is going to respond to this disaster in a significant way. Our initial target is to distribute 50,000 units of Clean-up/Hygiene […]

Sustainability Maker Convention 2013 Reminder

Reminder: World-renowned Speakers at Sustainability Maker Convention 2013, October 15th in Cologne Germany, don’t miss it! http://sustainabilitymaker.org/ Prof Ezio Manzini from Italy, will talk about social innovation and the “new open and distributed world” Prof Chris Ryan from Australia, will discuss radical innovation for Sustainabilty, the new urban and design for resilience. Prof. Dominik Walcher, innovation expert […]

Sphere Project Training

California Baptist University is hosting an official Sphere Project Training, which provides the learner with global recognition as a Disaster Responder. “The Sphere Project is a voluntary initiative that brings a wide range of humanitarian agencies together around a common aim – to improve the quality of humanitarian assistance and the accountability of humanitarian actors to their constituents, donors and […]

23rd World Conference on Disaster Management

Hurricane Sandy a Disaster? We’ve Seen Nothing Yet, Say Organizers of 23rd World Conference on Disaster Management One of largest conferences of its kind to draw representatives from more than 35 countries to explore the question: “How prepared are we?” Toronto, Ontario – After a year of extreme weather events, devastating storms, droughts, wildfires, flooding, and record-breaking hot and cold temperatures, […]