I am nervous as I travel to Kampong Cham province in the east of Cambodia. I was here a few months ago supporting ActionAid’s response to the massive floods which had swept across parts of the...
The worst flooding for decades has affected up to seven million people in Thailand and Cambodia, and more than five months on, people are still relying on emergency relief from charities such as ActionAid
Thailand’s floods have swept away the little support that existed for the poorest members of our society. Though the waters continue to decrease and disappear, ActionAid has consistently found that...
Still grief-stricken and tearful, Wattana Chankrajang, told me how he sat holding his dying mother’s hand during her final night. Wattana, aged 52, lived with his brother Viroj and his mother in a...
I’ve been in Cambodia for 3 weeks now. As a member of ActionAid’s rapid response roster, I’ve travelled here from Bangladesh, where I work on issues of food rights and sustainable livelihoods,...
“Even the flood is gone from the area but there’s nothing left for me” Suthi Chansa, a 56 year-old woman who lives with her 10 years old grandson. Her daughter, mother of a boy is working as a...
The Chao Phraya River flows the full length of Thailand, a total of 372km from north to south, through Bangkok then out into the gulf of Thailand. It is an important river for transport and...
While devastating crop damage in the worst floods for 50 years has already left millions of people in Thailand and Cambodia without food, many more are likely to go hungry as the forthcoming rice...
Lying on the wooden bed with serum injection, 31 year-old Sein Keo is seriously ill after her young daughter died in the severe ongoing flood affecting Cambodia. The day the floods came, she told me...
Umerkot is one of the worst flood affected districts of Sindh, Pakistan. It is contrary to environmental characteristics of the area that it floods with rainwater. People have constructed their...
The worst flooding for decades has affected up to seven million people in Thailand and Cambodia, and more than five months on, people are still relying on emergency relief from charities such as ActionAid
