Relief Efforts Chronicle
Some of the organisation’s most important deployments include:
- 1956: Refugee aid at the Austro-Hungarian border
- 1966-1975: Refugee aid in Vietnam
- Since 1979: Refugee aid in Thailand (for refugees coming from neighboring countries)
- Since 1980: transport of humanitarian aid to Central and Eastern Europe
- 1989: humanitarian aid for East German refugees in Budapest
- 1994-1996: Aid to Rwanda
- 1999: Kosovo crisis
- Since 2001: Emergency relief and reconstruction in Myanmar
- 2004: Refugee aid in Darfur, Sudan
- 2005:Tsunami relief in South and South-East Asia
- 2010: Earthquake relief in Haiti and Chile, Flood relief in Pakistan
- 2011: Earthquake relief in Japan, drought relief in Northern Kenya
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