Hurricane Beryl – UNDAC Deployment

In this interview, Luxembourg’s UNDAC Member Yves Legil reflects on his rapid deployment to Union Island after Hurricane Beryl, describing the scale of destruction, coordination challenges, and the resilience shown by affected communities.

Typhoon Haiyan

On 10 November 2013, two emergency.lu rapid deployment kits, together with 4 VSAT experts from the Luxembourg Civil Protection, were deployed to the Philippines within the framework of an IHP support mission to UNDAC/OCHA. One additional emergency.lu rapid deployment kit and one regular kit were sent from the Humanitarian Response Depot in Dubai to the Philippines in support of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC).