Posts By Birger Stamperdahl
Connecting Philanthropy and Aid for Pakistan’s Flood Survivors
August 18, 2010
In the farmland regions of Pakistan’s southern Punjab, what used to be fields are now covered with water. Acknowledged as the worst humanitarian crisis in Pakistan’s history, flooding that began three weeks ago in northwestern Pakistan has now displaced more than 20 million people. Bringing together Give2Asia‘s private donor community and The Asia Foundation’s program [...]
Countries: Pakistan
Three Years Later, Conflicts in Tsunami Areas Have Taken Very Different Directions
December 19, 2007
The devastation of the 2004 tsunami came on the heels of two separate, decades-long conflicts between insurgent armies and the governments in Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia. These conflicts had led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, but they progressed very differently after the disaster: Aceh moved toward peace, while Sri Lanka [...]
Topics: Conflict and Fragile Conditions