Current emergencies
Learn more about the emergencies that Plan is responding to now.
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Landslides and flooding have recently affected Peru, with an estimate of 385,000 people’s homes damaged and 37 people dead. Cusco and Lima, Plan programme areas, are badly affected.
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Plan is stepping in to avert a crisis in West Africa. Many rural families are struggling to survive, especially in communities already weakened by 2010’s drought and hunger.
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Over 6,000 people are living in camps in Malawi including more than 3,500 children as a result of severe flooding following prolonged heavy rainfall and a cyclone that hit neighbouring Mozambique.
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Plan responds with emergency aid to survivors of tropical storm Washi that struck island of Mindanao, Philippines
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Displaced children are suffering from hunger and malnutrition and need more nutritious food. School and community toilets need to be repaired and health and hygiene campaigns are needed to limit the spread of disease.
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Plan launches an appeal to help thousands of children at risk in southern Pakistan as millions of people are now affected by floods.
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Unprecedented rainfall in El Salvador has left communities without water and transport and forced some families to move into temporary shelters. Plan is launching an appeal.
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Unusually severe and prolonged rains have lashed four south-central provinces in China. Plan UK has launched an appeal to help families affected by the worst floods in living memory.
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Plan teams are on the ground providing life-saving aid to children and families in East Africa, where severe drought has put millions of people at risk of starvation.
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Plan has launched a targeted response to help victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
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