It is the first, crude way to get food there. It is not, however, a good way to get water and medicine distributed. |
It is unconscionable that the LRA is carrying out these vicious attacks on unarmed humanitarian worker, |
It is unconscionable that the LRA is carrying out these vicious attacks on unarmed humanitarian worker. |
It is, in my view, not right to sit with reconstruction money for one year from now if we're not sure whether those people will be alive one year from now. |
It will be a marathon sprint throughout the winter where we have to do lifesaving assistance until the snow melts sometime in April. |
It will take billions of dollars to rebuild ... To reconstruct this will take five to 10 years, |
It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive. |
It's by far the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the Western hemisphere, and yet the plight of these people remains a largely untold story. |
It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis. |
It's like a lottery, where there are 50 victimized groups always trying to get the winning ticket, and they play every night and they lose every night. |
It's like nature strikes back on people who have treated nature badly and we see hundreds of thousands dead after these last two years and hundreds of millions of livelihoods lost. |
It's no good saving people today just to see them killed tomorrow. They need help to escape the vicious cycle they find themselves in. |
It's really been a terrible year in terms of suffering and in terms of challenges. But it ends with a glimmer of hope. |
Malawi is losing the world's attention. |
many billions of dollars. |