IsraAID sending team to Sri Lanka to help recovery in wake of Cyclone Ditwah

IsraAID sending team to Sri Lanka to help recovery in wake of Cyclone Ditwah

Emergency workers will focus on immediate public-health needs such as water, sanitation and hygiene.The post IsraAID sending team to Sri Lanka to help recovery in wake of Cyclone Ditwah appeared first on JNS.org.

Disaster geopolitics in Ditwah’s wake - Ameen Izzadeen • Sri Lanka Brief

Image: Indian troops taking part in relief and rescue operations in a disaster-hit area.  Pic courtesy X@DrSJaishankar. Just as Canada’s social justice activist and writer Naomi Klein, in her highly celebrated book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, explains the relations between disasters—manmade or natural—and vulgar capitalism driven by inhumane greed, so too can we see an inviting link between disasters and geopolitics. In …

Tales of Post-Disaster Recovery in Sri Lanka - Groundviews

Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera In the wake of cyclone Ditwah, one of the worst environmental disasters in Sri Lanka directly affecting 2.3 million people across the country, recovery remains a long and arduous process. State authorities with a great deal of support from local communities, charitable organizations, foreign governments and others continue to provide