Tens of thousands of people will not get any assistance today, because it is too dangerous. |
Tens of thousands of people's lives are at stake and they could die if we don't get to them in time. |
That had been one of our fears. I think it has not been the case. |
The backdrop is a dramatic one in Zimbabwe, one of the most dramatic in the world. Life expectancy has plummeted from around 63 years in the late 1980s and early 1990s to 33.9 years in 2004. This is a meltdown. This is a nearly halving of life expectancy. |
The big non-governmental organizations, the ones with which we work all over the world, understood the value of coordination. The same cannot be said about all the newer players on the ground. |
The coast is low, it takes the full blast of the tsunami which was at its highest at that point, and now the villages are gone, |
The concept is one warm room per family before it becomes too cold. |
The devastation sweeping America's southern coast is a 'wake-up call' to the world about the dangers of global warming , |
The earthquake in Kashmir afflicting three countries is becoming worse by the day as the extent of the emergency dawns upon us, |
The earthquake in Kashmir afflicting three countries is becoming worse by the day as the extent of the emergency dawns upon us. |
The goal of the fund is simple: to provide aid workers with funding to jump-start lifesaving relief operations . |
The good news is that we have very good pledges, but the bad news for us is that too little is committed to the UN's flash appeal, |
The good news is that we have very good pledges, but the bad news for us is that too little is committed to the UN's flash appeal. |
The good news is that we have very good pledges. The bad news is that we still have too few concrete commitments to the U.N. flash appeal. |
The government must stop further evictions and be more flexible in allowing shelter and other programs for those affected. It must ensure that beneficiaries are assisted solely on the basis of need. |