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.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.