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Beginning disaster relief response in 1992, Operation Blessing has assisted
millions of victims and their families with emergency food, medicine, water and shelter.
2005
Undertook largest disaster relief response effort to date within hours after Hurricane Katrina's landfall. Committed to rebuild throughout 2006.
In response to a 7.6 earthquake in India and Pakistan, OBI airlifted 45 tons of blankets, food, antibiotics, and other medical material
aid to the most devastated districts.
Food and aid was sent to flood victims in Dakar, Senegal.
Filipino families devastated by flooding received medical care and relief packets containing blankets, oral hygiene packs, towels and soap.
Continued relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts in tsunami-torn India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand through a initiatives including food packages, rebuilding homes, boat building projects, medical care and micro-enterprise programs.
2004
Emergency disaster relief teams were on the ground assisting thousands of victims within forty-eight hours after December 26, 2004's deadly Asian tsunami.
Relief and recovery efforts helped an estimated 261,075 people to Hurricane
Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne survivors living in places including Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Cuba and the Grand Cayman
OB Philippines staff and volunteers put together and distributed more
than 29,000 relief pails filled with food and clothing to survivors of four typhoons.
Medical teams also went to remote areas and helped thousands of hurt and sick children
and adults.
2003
Disaster relief supplies to families that fought November's California
wild fires
Assisted the Iraqi people with medical care, medicine and food relief
Delivered disaster relief and served food to Hurricane Isabel victims
In May, we brought relief supplies to survivors of the numerous tornados
that hit the USA
2002
Southeastern African famine victims
Afghan earthquakes and assisting returning refugees rebuild
Flooding in southern United States
Volcano victims in Goma
2001
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington
D.C.
Afghan refugees fleeing to Pakistan
Victims of an earthquake and flooding in India
2000
Victims of monsoons and flooding in Mozambique and Venezuela
1999
Communities devastated by earthquakes in Turkey and Taiwan
Refugees fleeing the war in Kosovo
Victims of Hurricane Floyd in southeastern United States
1998
Hurricane survivors of Bonnie, Georges, and Mitch as well as tropical
storm Charley
Fire victims in Florida as well as flood victims in California and
Ecuador
Tornadoes victims from Florida, Georgia and Tennessee
1997
Families displaced by volcanic activity in Montserrat, British West
Indies
Tornado victims in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina
Flood victims in Iowa, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas and North
Dakota
1996
Victims hit by hurricanes Fran, Marilyn, Opal and Roxanne
1995
Communities destroyed by the Kobe earthquake and victims of the Oklahoma
City bombing
1994
Refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing in Rwanda
1993
Families affected by the Midwest floods
1992
Victims of Hurricane Andrew in Florida
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