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Over eight months since Hurricane Helene tore through her mountain community, All Hands & Hearts (AH&H) reconnected with Marya, one of the first people we supported in the immediate aftermath of the storm. She shared her story with us, where she is today, and explained the ongoing emotional and physical toll the storm has on […]

All Hands & Hearts (AH&H) spent over five months in Hariharpurgadhi, Nepal, learning, listening and integrating over time to understand the needs of the local community. AH&H’s initial scope of work in Hariharpurgadhi involved rebuilding Shree Bhanubhakta School, which serves 279 students, following damage from the country’s devastating earthquakes in 2015. Over time, AH&H was […]

Supporting Communities Affected by Helene Hurricane Helene comes as the latest reminder of the increasing frequency and severity of storms driven by climate change, which fuels record-breaking storms like Helene. As one of the fastest-intensifying storms in history, it grew from a potential tropical cyclone to a Category 4 hurricane in just five days, wreaking […]

Imagine if each year, you were faced with a tropical cyclone that had the potential to cause devastating damage to your home, leaving you with months of reconstruction,  displacing you and your family. For those living in the Philippines, these occurrences can be commonplace as they endure not one, but 20 cyclones on average each […]

When Hurricane Helene swept through Black Mountain, a small town near Asheville, North Carolina, the community experienced devastation unlike anything they’d seen before. Marya, a local resident, witnessed a 10-foot-wide flash flood surge down the mountain, narrowly sparing her home from being swept away but leaving it completely flooded. Fallen trees blocked driveways, roads were […]

Around lunchtime on April 25, 2015, Nepal experienced the unthinkable. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck near the capital city of Kathmandu, shattering the calm of a typical Saturday afternoon and sending shockwaves of terror through unsuspecting communities. It was the strongest and most devastating earthquake the country had seen in over 80 years. In an instant, […]

With the skies clearing after another destructive hurricane, attention is already turning to the next weather system, in anticipation of what may be forming over the warming Atlantic waters. Four months into the 2024 hurricane season, the North American East Coast and its islands have been battered by a series of high-intensity, unprecedented storms, hitting […]

What exactly is a hurricane? In simple terms, it is a rotating low pressure weather system whose maximum sustained winds reach 74 miles per hour (or 119 kilometers per hour). Severity is measured on a category scale from one to five, increasing as those maximum sustained wind speeds increase.  This type of storm, though the same in […]

Each year, hurricane season becomes more intense, more unpredictable and more dangerous. Communities around the world are preparing for longer seasons, stronger storms and slower recovery times. And as climate change accelerates, so does the need for fast, effective disaster relief. At All Hands & Hearts (AH&H), we’ve spent two decades showing up right after […]