Timeline
Worldwide humanitarian relief - for nearly 60 years
Malteser International - evolved from Malteser Germany - in 2005 was internationalised as the worldwide relief agency of the Order of Malta and has nearly 60 years of experience in humanitarian relief. Please find below a selection of its various relief operations:
1956 | Refugee aid at the Austro-Hungarian border |
1966-1975 | Refugee aid / hospital building in Vietnam |
1970 | Earthquake relief in Peru |
1979-1993 | Refugee relief in Thailand |
1979 | Earthquake relief in Dubrovnik |
1980 | Drought relief in Somalia |
since 1980 | Transports of relief items to Central and Eastern Europe |
1981 | Earthquake relief in Southern Italy |
1985-1986 | Famine relief in Africa |
1989 | Humanitarian aid for East German refugees in Budapest |
1990-1991 | Renovation of a hospital in Danang, Vietnam |
since 1990 | Building up of local Malteser groups in Central and Eastern Europe |
1991 | Aid to Kurds in Iraq |
since 1991 | Humanitarian aid for the victims of the war in former Yugoslavia |
Reconstruction aid in Lithuania, Romania, Russia and the Ukraine | |
since 1993 | Aid for Karen refugees from Myanmar at the Thai-Burmese border |
Aid for Sudanese refugees in Uganda | |
Programme to combat leprosy in Cambodia | |
Basic health, nutrition and emergency relief programmes in Vietnam | |
1994-1996 | Aid to Rwanda |
1997 | Reconstruction aid in Rwanda, Zaire and Bosnia |
1997-1999 | Humanitarian aid for Cambodian refugees in Thailand |
1998-2000 | Reconstruction aid in Honduras (following hurricane Mitch) |
since 1998 | Basic health and reconstruction programmes in Southern Sudan |
since 1999 | Reconstruction aid in Kosovo and the Balkan Region |
Construction aid, rehabilitation and health care in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia | |
1999-2002 | Earthquake relief in Turkey |
2000 | Emergency relief for flood victims in Ethiopia and Mozambique |
Health programmes in Sudan | |
since 2001 | Earthquake aid and reconstruction aid in India and El Salvador |
Refugee relief in Afghanistan | |
Basic health care project in Myanmar | |
2003 | Reconstruction aid and health care in Northern Iraq |
Refugee aid in the Democratic Republic of Congo | |
2004 | Earthquake aid and reconstruction aid in Bam, Iran |
Refugee relief in Darfur, Sudan | |
2005 | Tsunami relief in South- and South-East Asia |
Emergency aid for flood victims in Serbia, Romania and Hungary | |
Emergency aid for the victims of the famine in Mali and Niger | |
Reconstruction aid after Hurricane Katrina in the USA | |
Earthquake and reconstruction relief in Pakistan | |
Reconstruction aid after hurricanes in Central America | |
2006 | Drought relief in Kenya |
Flood relief in Romania | |
Earthquake aid on Java, Indonesia | |
Emergency aid in Lebanon | |
2007 | Flood relief in Kenya and Uganda |
Food distribution for internally displaced persons in DR Congo | |
Flood relief in Pakistan, India, Vietnam and Mexico | |
Earthquake relief in Peru | |
2008 | Emergency relief and reconstruction after cyclone Nargis in Myanmar |
Flood relief in India | |
Earthquake relief in Pakistan and China (Sichuan) | |
Fight against a cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe | |
2009 | Emergency aid for internally displaced civilians in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and DR Congo |
Earthquake relief in Sumatra/Indonesia | |
Emergency relief in Vietnam and the Philippines | |
2010 | Earthquake relief in Haiti |
Emergency relief and reconstruction aid after earthquake and tsunami in Chile | |
Flood relief in Pakistan, India and Myanmar | |
2011 | Emergency relief and rehabilitation after earthquake and tsunami in Japan |
Drought relief in Kenya |
