IB Geography Hazards and Disasters

Tarukan was home to hundreds of families of a Filipino tribe called the Aeta

50 villagers opted to come home to relive a lifestyle they thought they would never see again.

The 50,000-member tribe has long survived along the slopes of the volcano by fishing, hunting wild boar, deer, birds and mountain cats and farming beans, rice, sweet potatoes and root crops.

Then in April, when serious seismic activity began warning of an imminent eruption, they fled their homes and the wrath of their god.

A tsunami warning was extended across the Pacific to include the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hawaii, the Pacific coast of Russia and North and South America.

In defence of his company's much-criticised decision to continue sending cruises to the fenced-off and heavily-guarded resort, he said the livelihoods of 230 staff and about 270 local traders depended on their visits

Oxfam has launched several cash-for-work projects, which give those living in camps a chance to earn an income while improving their environment by building latrines and clearing rubble.

Oxfam is distributing plastic sheets to help meet emergency needs for shelter. Our immediate goal is to provide sheeting to 28,000 people.

After the earthquake demolished their houses, most of them were able to drag some of their rice, oil, or crackers out of the rubble. They all take a certain pride in the fact that they are now sharing what they have equally among themselves. "We are living communally," says Shelove Lindor, a thoughtful man in glasses. "We are helping one another."

In the rough, hilly neighborhood of Delmas, women sell carrots and okra brought in from the nearby countryside.

Residents have piled up their garbage in a ravine and are burning it because, one woman explains to me, "it could be bad for the health" to have so much garbage on the street

the project involves showing feature films and messages of support from children in Britain

The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who co-chaired a conference of about 120 countries and international organisations at the United Nations in New York, called the pledges "an impressive sum by any standard". The conference drew $9.9bn of donations to rebuild infrastructure

Canada will build a new headquarters for Haiti's government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced at the start of a two-day visit to the country.Mr Harper said Canada would spend CAN$12m (£7.3m) on a temporary base after January's earthquake destroyed many government offices. The base, made of prefabricated modules and inflatable shelters, is to house key ministries for up to a year.