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:

  • Refugee relief Thailand (1980)
  • Reconstruction aid for more than 700 families in Kosovo (since 2000)
  • Medical care for refugees in a camp near Herat/Afghanistan (2001/2002)
  • Polio-vaccination for refugee children in Darfur, Sudan (2004)
  • Medical care after the devastating earthquake on Java, Indonesia (2006)
  • Food and medical supply in Kenya (2006)
  • Winter relief after the earthquake in Pakistan (2006)
  • Emergency relief after cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (2008-2009)
  • Emergency aid for internally displaced people in Sri Lanka (2009)
  • Medical treatment and psychosocial care for the affected population in Haiti (2010)
  • Distribution of relief items to the affected people in the coastal areas of Chile (2010)

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

Malteser International - evolved from Malteser Germany - is internationalised as the worldwide relief agency of the Sovereign Order of Malta.

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