The document of Habitat for Humanity on Cyclone Sidr which was was the second occasion Habitat for Humanity responded to a natural disaster in Bangladesh. The cyclone struck as Habitat was providing transitional housing for families affected by summer floods that had inundated about 40 percent of the country a few months earlier. Until then, Habitat’s activities in Bangladesh had concentrated on assisting the poor who had drifted into slum settlements in towns and cities in search of a better life in one of the world’s poorest and least developed countries. Habitat’s Save & Build housing microfinance scheme had enabled thousands of families to slowly save what they could afford to build small basic homes or rehabilitate existing dwellings.