Strengthening Humanitarian Crises

Can an aid shipment be half empty?

I began to think how can a glass be half empty. Wouldn't half of empty be empty. The same goes for an aid shipment. I would prefer to think it was half full atleast. Kerry has established that the last records we have from Brian is that half the aid shipment went to the delta to releive suffereing for the disaster victims as we are calling them now. The suppliers and NGOs however say they have shipped all the goods and they were distributed. The taxi driver of Kerry has confirmed that in the areas where the deliveries took place that he did see the goods like those that were purchased but that many organisations were delivery the same type of goods similar to the UN distributions.So I think in this case we have to give the local organisations the benefit of the doubt as we still can't locate Brian.

The local organisations have formed a consortium called the Delta Development Forum and they are keen to work with on the recoevry phase of the operation as we now have 3 million USD targeted from our public appeal and instituational donors. Kerry is helping to consolidate the forum and has been holding workshops this week with the partners. The involvement of local organisations is unique in an operation like this and we are excited by the development.

Dave our Asia Emergency Coordinator will be leaving on Friday with Jennifer the Public Health advisor to assist in developing the next phase of the operation. The Asia desk will also be looking at sending someone in the next week as the crisis team will likely hand over the operation to them. Talk to you soon.