NGO Gift of the Givers reflecting on 2018: Imtiaz Sooliman

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Channel: SABC News · 2018 · News & Politics

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Heavy rains and flooding have been hampering the distribution of aid and rescue efforts in the Tsunami-struck East Asia country of Indonesia.  More than 400 hundred people were killed and thousands displaced when a landslide triggered-Ysunami hit Sunda Strait in Indonesia.  Earlier today, there were reports of another earthquake in Indonesia - but there are no indications of any casualties.   The country has been battered by a series of disasters this year including successive earthquakes in Lombok, a twin disaster in Sulawesi and a Lion-Air plane crash that killed almost two hundred people.  South African NGO Gift of the Givers coordinated a Humanitarian mission to Indonesia in October.  We now cross live to our our studio in Durban where the Founder of the NGO -Dr Imtiaz Sooliman talks to us about the latest disaster in Indonesia - and the year that was.  

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