Disaster Relief and Recovery Programs

The tools that PCI brings to our programs help define the concept of transformational development: finding solutions to poverty through the aspirations, talent, and skills of the people we serve.

PCI provides disaster relief, helps people rebuild their lives, and works with communities to be better prepared to respond when a crisis occurs.

• The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters shows an average 65% greater frequency in natural disasters over the last decade.
• Women and children are often the most affected by emergencies, particularly children under the age of 5 and single headed female households.
• Geographically, Africa and Asia are home to over half of all natural disasters and more than three quarters of all complex emergencies.
• Poor and marginalized populations are the most vulnerable to emergencies.
• In the conflicts of the 1990s, 95% of the deaths were non-combatants, mostly from malnutrition and disease.

• “We didn’t just clear out rubble. We cleared out old attitudes in order to rebuild a healthier community.” – PCI/Haiti staff doctor
• PCI reached nearly 1 million people under a groundbreaking risk reduction program in Bihar, India from 2008 to 2011.
• In Bangladesh, PCI established 29 disaster management committees in 2011.
• Over the next three years, PCI will strengthen the resilience of 35,000 people prone to disaster in Indonesia.
• In 2011, 99% of households in Haiti trained by PCI in water treatment tested negative for coliform bacteria.