We needed the money yesterday.
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I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.
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Over the last few days, the world has finally woken up, but it took graphic images of dying children for this to happen,
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This time, at least, people heard about the earthquake. Many people fled inland.
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It's really been a terrible year in terms of suffering and in terms of challenges. But it ends with a glimmer of hope.
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We're doing too little combined as an international community because it's too vast. We have 140,000 tents now in the area. Normally, that is more than enough for even large-scale emergencies. This is probably only one-fourth of what is needed.
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