With the resources made available today and the commitments that will come in the coming days, we will redouble our collective efforts.
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Tens of thousands of people will not get any assistance today, because it is too dangerous.Jan Egeland
This is one of the biggest challenges of our time and age, we need to make vulnerable people living in developing nations more resilient to natural hazards.
Jan Egeland
Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.
Jan Egeland
After the tsunami, we had about 1000 helicopters active from the countries concerned, and from the whole international community ... We have about one-10th of this in this emergency, and we need helicopters just as badly.
Jan Egeland
I think in many ways we can some up now the one year anniversary of this terrible natural disaster that the emergency relief went better than we feared but the reconstruction and rebuilding is taking more time than we hoped. There was no second wave of death and disease as was feared but too many people have their first anniversary in the same tent they were given in the first months.
Jan Egeland
We need additional resources. I want more from everybody but I do recognize that some Europeans and the Americans give us already a lot. There are others who should step up to the plate.
Jan Egeland
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