Typhoon Haiyan and disaster recovery – news and teaching resources round up

Information round up: as aid reaches the Philippines we look at how the survivors of typhoon Haiyan make sense of their shattered world. Photograph: Philippine Red Cross/EPA

The strongest storm ever to make a landfall has devastated the Philippines, killing at least two,000 people (and professionals believe the amount of victims could rise to ten,000) and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.

This week’s information and resources round up focuses on the challenges of the relief effort. How do governments, help agencies and people aid recovery soon after such widespread damage? And how have social networks assisted companies to crowdsource essential information?

Here is a collection of information stories, multimedia, educating resources and sites to help discover the Typhoon Haiyan crisis in the geography classroom and beyond.

From The Guardian

Guiuan, the first area hit by Typhoon Haiyan – video
The Guardian’s Tania Branigan is the very first foreign journalist to report from Guiuan, the initial area hit by the typhoon on 8 November. Almost all the town’s 50,000 residents are now homeless and not a single building has been left unscathed – help is just beginning to trickle into the hungry and desperate population.

Survivors struggle to make sense of a shattered planet
These effective interviews with survivors of the typhoon are vital reading through as the days of hunger, thirst and homelessness are expand unbearable for the population of the town of Guiuan.

Typhoon Haiyan as it happened – dwell site
The news and skilled examination of the storm as it unfolded on eight November 2013, tons of beneficial hyperlinks here for older students to investigate.

Prior to and soon after – in pictures
These prior to and right after pictures from the typhoon-struck area of the Philippines reveal the total extent of the catastrophic destruction.

Typhoon Haiyan relief effort – in images
Potent photos coming in as aid workers and relief supplies head into eastern provinces hit by typhoon Haiyan, with a distinct focus on Tacloban.

Typhoon Haiyan: five days on – in photographs
Thousands of survivors are left without shelter, food and electrical power in the Haiyan devastated areas in the Philippines.

The worst impacted areas – interactive
A valuable map revealing the path of the deadly storm – wonderful for the whiteboard.

Philippines support effort hampered by lawlessness
This post reveals the complicated issues of getting relief to typhoon-devastated locations, in which reports of gunshots, stabbings and ambushes have induced several residents and assist staff to fear for their lives. There have been warnings of traffickers posing as relief staff and focusing on females and children.

Typhoon Haiyan principal assembly
This up-to-date PowerPoint from CAFOD is ready produced for a main assembly or the classroom, explaining what has occurred in the Philippines and how CAFOD and their partners are creating a difference.

Typhoon Haiyan for secondary school teachers
CAFOD has also shared this presentation for secondary college lessons or assemblies, such as a brief prayer and comment from Pope Francis.

Hidden catastrophe
Intriguing resource on how the EU Humanitarian Assist department responds to a crisis and how fallout generally lasts months and many years following the headlines fade.

Wants and desires auction activity
Imagined-provoking activity from the British Red Cross which seems to be at understanding consequences and creating empathy with catastrophe victims. Students get to think about concerns such as what they would consider with them if they had to depart their property at a moment’s notice. Use with this word doc.

Ideal of the net

Oxfam’s Philippines typhoon dwell website
Intriguing insight direct from Oxfam’s rapid evaluation teams who are on the ground in typhoon affected places to give urgent emergency supplies.

Twitter #Haiyan
The #Haiyan hashtag is a mine of info from information agencies and assist organisations all above the planet.

Red Cross site
Nichola Jones, who is out in the Philippines with the British Red Cross, paints a desperate image of the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan and the requirements of the folks who have been affected.

Social media assists assist efforts right after typhoon Haiyan
This is a truly intriguing report from the New Scientist on the flood of data soon after the storm. For the very first time social media is getting mined by an army of volunteers to supply support staff with true-time maps of who wants help and the place.

Micromappers
Fascinating data on the dwell crisis map of disaster harm in Philippines exactly where info from the ground reported on social media has developed a dwell crisis map.

Planet Meals Programme (WFP)
In depth info on deliveries of rice and large energy biscuits now and how the WFP plan to support over the coming months.

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Typhoon Haiyan and disaster recovery – news and teaching resources round up