In just a few weeks last November, Central Vietnam was battered by six typhoons, leaving incredible destruction and loss of life. According to the New York Times and Vietnamese news outlets, the typhoons cut power to millions of people and blew the roofs off around 89,000 homes, leaving many completely destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of homes were submerged in water. Well over 100 people were killed.
Since much of Vietnam has yet to fully recover from the war, the country was especially vulnerable to these climate change enhanced storms. Partnering with Friends of Project RENEW, we were able to donate food and rice cookers to hard hit families, and resupply schools with computers destroyed by flood waters.
A woman was pulled from flood waters due to Typhoon Molave in Central Vietnam in late October, 2020.