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This paper focuses mainly on environmental migration caused by floods, which in Slovakia and many other countries is a living topic over the years. Water is something we can’t be without, but having this huge  power it can also damage and destroy all we have.  Until now environmental migrants are still not being recognized as migrants and this way they are not getting all the help and rights of migrants and have to struggle with all impacts of such a disaster by themselves or with help of other people. The treat of floods is always here with  us and we, our family  or friend  can be anytime without any warning hit by them.
Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to highlight the destiny of not very fortunate people being hit by floods and to find possible, available solution for them when building up their whole life from the scratch.
Design/methodology/approach – The primary and main method was the case study of people hit by floods, research in the archives, documents of different organizations dealing with floods, research in activities of voluntary organizations and government activities helping these people.
Findings – Despite the help of government and state still the burden of help is on voluntary help.
Research limitations/implications – Limited impact on help provided to affected people.  Limited possibility to get many different views of such a big amount of people hit by floods.
Practical implications – Raised attention and possible more help to environmentally displaced people.
Originality/value – Currently due to huge degradation of environment and environmental catastrophes a very hot topic,  for which  a solution has to be found.

Keywords

Environmental Migrants, Floods, Catastrophe, Voluntary Help.

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