Many families are still not in permanent housing and now it's rainy season, |
More is currently at stake in terms of lives saved or lost in Africa than on any other continent. As humanitarian workers, we cannot accept that so many lives are lost every year on this continent to preventable diseases, neglect and senseless brutality. |
My heart goes out to the children of North Korea. |
NATO is planning to increase its operations further, and will work closely with the Pakistan government and the United Nations in this regard. |
North American pets get more investment per month than we have money for all our humanitarian operations in the world. |
Nowhere else on earth is so much at stake as in Africa. It is here where most lives are at stake. |
One of the possibilities we could have is international helicopters operating across the border. |
one of the world's most neglected crises. |
Our biggest concern now is that we will have tremendous bottlenecks. Every day there are 60 to 100 trucks coming in from all over Pakistan. |
Over the last few days, the world has finally woken up, but it took graphic images of dying children for this to happen, |
Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions. |
People are dying as we speak because we're not there in all of these villages where there are wounded people. |
people who could freeze to death, starve to death, or just be sick because of infected water. |
probably be many billions of dollars. However, we cannot fathom the cost of these poor societies and the nameless fishermen and fishing villages that have just been wiped out. |
So it's a nightmare trying to reach community after community which are homeless, roofless, without food, without water. It is this race against time I fear we are now losing for many of these outlying villages. |