185 ordspråk av Jan Egeland
Jan Egeland
 The important thing is that we give and that we as citizens also demand that our countries give generously to those who have been so hard hit. |
| Then we could have not only a tsunami-style casualty rate as we have seen late last year, but we could see one hundred times that in a worst case. |
| Over the last few days, the world has finally woken up, but it took graphic images of dying children for this to happen, |
| 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, |
| They had hardly any roads at all and now they are gone. |
| The secretary general said it may take as much as five to ten years. We hope it will take much less time. |
| However, air drops are being undertaken, |
| It is the first, crude way to get food there. It is not, however, a good way to get water and medicine distributed. |
| I think it would be a massive undertaking to actually have a full-fledged tsunami warning system that would really be effective in many of these places, |
| many billions of dollars. |
| We need rich countries, rich individuals, even only those of us who are reasonably affluent to respond generously. |
| I've already said I thought it would be well above 150,000 total. How many tens of thousands more, we don't know. |
| This has never ever happened before, that two weeks after a disaster that we have $717 million that we can spend on the immediate emergency effort. |
| We need helicopters because the roads are gone, |
| People are dying as we speak because we're not there in all of these villages where there are wounded people. |
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