Natural disasters in the Pacific – raising awareness

Rather far from the eye of international media, three major natural disasters hit the Asia Pacific region within just one week.  First, it was the typhoon in the Philippines, then it was the tsunami in Samoa, and finally it was the earthquake in Indonesia.  None of these countries is particularly rich or well-prepared to deal with natural disasters, yet they the attention span of the global media cannot afford focusing on them for too long.

This is why, I would like to highlight an effort of my colleague Glenn Omanio, who is trying to raise awareness (and funds) to help the rehabilitation efforts.  Here is a video he made and there is more information in his blog:

Please feel free to share and forward!