Providing post disaster financial assistance.
- Hurricanes are the costliest of weather related storms. They alone create a range of short- and long-term health and economic woes, with socially vulnerable populations often shouldering the greatest burden.
- Funding delays can cause even further devastation. Without timely loans or construction funds these same people may lose their homes and businesses and be forced to leave once vibrant communities.
Our Story
What started as a few parents passionate about traveling and exposing their young adults to the world to grow compassion, quickly grew to all parties desiring to assist those in need.
After seeing many areas devastated by natural disaster, ACT Abroad was re-born. We work to bring financial assistance to all areas of the world devastated by natural disasters. Its purpose is to help regain life, health and economy as quickly as possible for each human being affected.
A resident surveys the damage to her property after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017. Alex Wroblewski/Getty
Our Work
We focus on places where disaster present opportunities to re-build more secure, productive communities.
Facts We WIll Overcome With Your Support
- Carbon emissions account for between 65–76 percent of the greenhouse gases from human activity, causing the Earth's temperature to rise at its fastest rate in millions of years.
- Buildings account for 40% of carbon monoxide (CO2) emissions in the United States. These CO2 emissions come from burning fossil fuels required to heat, cool, and power all types of appliances.
- Conventional buildings consume 70% of the electricity produced in the United States.
- Green building is the low hanging fruit to reduce greenhouse gas emissions emitted into the atmosphere.
- Greenhouse gases directly/contribute to climate change. Thereby affecting rising global temperatures, rising sea levels, droughts, hurricanes, and wildfires.
- Currently over 15,000 people day now die from air pollution.
- In 2016 greenhouse gas emissions were 50% higher than the average over the last 10 years.
- The average C02 concentration now over 403 parts per million (PPM). The largest increase in the last 30 years!
- According to statistics provided by the National Weather Service, heat is the number one weather related killer in the United States, followed by flooding, and then tornadoes.
- Between 1994 and 2013, EM-DAT recorded 6,873 natural disasters worldwide, which claimed 1.35 million lives or almost 68,000 lives on average each year. In addition 218 million people were affected by natural disasters on average per year during this 20-year period.
- From 1980 through September 2018, 41 hurricanes each averaged nearly $22 billion in losses (not including Hurricane Michael). That figure includes everything from wrecked homes and waterlogged hospitals in communities; public infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and power lines; economic losses like lost wages and income-generating assets such as crops, livestock, and businesses. It does not include health-related costs or values related to lost lives.
- According to the U.S. Geological Survey, over 316,000 people were killed in the earthquake in Haiti in 2010.
- Over the last decade, the United States, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and China constitute the top five countries that are most frequently hit by natural disasters.
JOIN US
In disaster, volunteers have an opportunity to learn more about and help apply bold and creative solutions to help spark, scale and sustain lasting change.
But we can’t do this work alone. We need the support, expertise, innovations and solutions of our corporate and foundation partners to help people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities. We need you!
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