- Typhoon Ketsana swept through the Philippines and onto Vietnam on the 29th causing extensive damage and flooding;
- On 30th September in Indonesia an earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale struck western Sumatra
- This was followed by an aftershock of 6.6 a day later.
Well over a 1000 people are thought to have died in Sumatra but this is likely to be a low estimate whilst many thousands are trapped underneath collapsed houses. It is estimated that 20,000 people have been injured.
In the Philippines over 2.5 million people have been affected by destruction and flooding leading people to leave their homes for higher land. Diseases are starting to spread amongst survivors and a further second typhoon, Parma, has now hit the country.Finally in Vietnam over 1 million people have been affected by flooding and damage to infrastructure from the typhoon. Many areas remain underwater as more rain is falling and high winds are battering the region. Thousands have been evacuated.
On the 1st November we will be climbing to the top of Mount Snowdon in order to raise money for the DEC Disasters Appeal - Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. Please sponsor our climb, money is still urgently needed as aid agencies fear they will simply not have enough to help the hundreds of thousands of survivors.
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