This time, at least, people heard about the earthquake. Many people fled inland. |
This will help energize further the struggle to reach the earthquake stricken communities in the Himalayas. |
This would mean the saving of hundreds of thousands and millions of livelihoods. |
This year has really been the year of natural disasters, with nature at its worst and humanity at its best. |
three times the strength they have today. |
Too often, aid resembles a lottery, in which a few win, but most lose, based on considerations other than need. |
We are humanitarian workers, we are apolitical, impartial. We hope to be successful in our dialogue (with Pyongyang) so we can have a phased end to the program. |
We are humanitarians, we don't know how to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people in the Himalayas. But the most efficient military alliance in the world should be able to. |
We are losing a race against the clock in the small villages, |
We are trying now to move from saving lives in daily food distribution to doing agricultural work: livestock, water and irrigation recovery projects. |
We are working to move from lottery to predictability so that all those who suffer receive aid. |
We cannot now have a generation of aspirations for peace being destroyed (in southern Sudan) by the Lord's Resistance Army coming in from northern Uganda and from other ethnic militias in southern Sudan. |
We did well in the emergency phase, ... But the reconstruction went slower than we had hoped. |
We have enough to keep people alive, but we can't at all change their totally inhuman kind of situation in camps where they cannot live without being attacked. |
We have health kits and school-in-a-box kits that are tailored for immediate use for people that are displace by emergencies, and when such requests come we will answer immediately. |