DISASTER RELIEF - MALAWI

During the winter of 2005, a severe drought gripped Malawi. Without intervention, five million people would face starvation. Before the intervention of emergency aid from Europe, a detailed community survey was prepared that indicated who was affected and how dire the situation was.
Detailed data was captured on over four thousand people. Together with the recording of each household's Global Positioning Satellite coordinates, each household was also physically numbered. Information was captured included
family names, age groups, sex, what they had been eating , forms of income, literacy rates and more. In addition to the creation of a detailed database of the various villages, topographical maps were drawn up and used alongside
satellite images of the area.

With sophisticated technology utilised during the facilitation of this project, a vast and varied amount of information was collected in a short period, allowing for an efficient and effective response to the famine.