Empty pockets
Monday, June 22, 2009
The News International, Monday, June 22, 2009
A press release issued by the NWFP information department says that the number of people displaced by the fighting in Swat and elsewhere has now reached 3.8 million. About 150 thousand are in camps and the rest – by far the majority – are living with relatives or in makeshift accommodation. The operation currently under way in Bannu is producing its own crop of IDPs and if the military moves on Waziristan then we may expect another half-million to gravitate towards Peshawar and the area immediately surrounding it. Describing this as a human catastrophe does no justice to the scale of the problem faced by the government, provincial and federal, and the national and international agencies that are struggling to provide relief services. Overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster, aid agencies now face what is being described as the worst funding-shortfall for any major disaster in the last ten years. Simply, they are running out of money and unless their pockets are refilled soon they are going to grind to a halt.
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A press release issued by the NWFP information department says that the number of people displaced by the fighting in Swat and elsewhere has now reached 3.8 million. About 150 thousand are in camps and the rest – by far the majority – are living with relatives or in makeshift accommodation. The operation currently under way in Bannu is producing its own crop of IDPs and if the military moves on Waziristan then we may expect another half-million to gravitate towards Peshawar and the area immediately surrounding it. Describing this as a human catastrophe does no justice to the scale of the problem faced by the government, provincial and federal, and the national and international agencies that are struggling to provide relief services. Overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster, aid agencies now face what is being described as the worst funding-shortfall for any major disaster in the last ten years. Simply, they are running out of money and unless their pockets are refilled soon they are going to grind to a halt.
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Labels: Foreign Aid, Human Rights, Humanitarian Crisis, IDPs
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