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3 Oct

Morocco and Turkey’s Tragic Lesson: Disaster Prevention Needs a Stronger Foundation

Friday’s devastating earthquake in Morocco took the country – and world – by surprise. At 6.8 magnitude, it is the strongest earthquake to hit the country since 1900 and has highlighted major weaknesses in the country’s infrastructure, particularly in rural communities. Unfortunately, as we have already seen this year in Turkey and Syria, this devastating […]

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28 Sep

Recent Success: SESH and USAID/BHA KUAT Collaboration in Indonesia

A group of 13 students from Cal Poly’s Structural Engineering Students for Humanity (SESH) joined the USAID/BHA Komunitas Perkotaan Untuk Aksi Tangguh (KUAT) Activity to identify structural/urban risks in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia in response to recurring floods and the threat of an earthquake in the region. They collaborated with 23 local university students from Bandung […]

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25 Apr

Restoring Hope in Haiti: The Inspiring Story of Consuelo Alzamora and FONTEN’s Mission

Consuelo Alzamora, a 37-year-old Chilean occupational therapist, has dedicated over a decade of her life to rehabilitating physically challenged individuals in rural Haiti.

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28 Dec

Miyamoto Relief Rebuilds 19 Multi-Family Compounds

For eight weeks, Miyamoto Relief worked alongside the Afghanistan community to train on the processes of building their homes back safer. The MR program sourced local materials and used local construction methods to rebuild the damaged family compounds.

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17 Aug

Repairing Damaged Homes in Beirut, Lebanon: A Collaboration Between the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Miyamoto Relief

On August 4, 2020, there was a deadly explosion in Beirut, Lebanon caused by the inadequate storage of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Port of Beirut.

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18 Mar

Limited Edition Prints by Renowned Artist Anish Kapoor on Auction to Benefit Ethiopia’s Kara Tribe

Anish Kapoor, named one of the most influential sculptors of his generation, and nonprofit Miyamoto Relief are auctioning limited edition prints to support the Kara Tribe...

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14 Sep

Help Blast Victims in Beirut Rebuild Their Homes

Last month, a chemical explosion ravaged the Port of Beirut, Lebanon. In just a 5 km radius, homes were flattened, and lives were lost.

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18 Jun

Return Water to Ethiopian Tribes

In the Omo Valley, Ethiopia, new infrastructure developments threaten lives and livelihoods by altering the seasonal floods on which [...]

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4 Oct

Tribal Elder Visits the U.S. for the First Time

Attendees at the Zweig Group Elevate conference in Las Vegas were thrilled to meet Lale Biwa on Thursday. Miyamoto Relief brought him to the U.S. to raise funds to help preserve the traditional ways, culture and livelihoods of tribes in the Omo Valley. Get more info here: Save the Last Tribes of Ethiopia

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2 Oct

Gaddi Baithak wins ENR’s “Project of the Year”

Nepal’s devastating April 2015 earthquake and its many aftershocks killed nearly 9,000 people and destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes.

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Miyamoto Relief applies engineering expertise to sustain life in at-risk communities around the world. Miyamoto Relief also works to preserve cultural heritage and historic structures. The entire history of a culture can be lost in a few seconds of an earthquake.

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