for immediate assistance, while sanitation, drinking water, electricity, livelihood assistance and early recovery are urgently needed. It isn't very difficult to produce many more figures (some more, other less reliable) and I guess I could go on telling you about new tragedies as they continue to unfold, almost on a daily basis. Simply in view of the fact that some of the very remote villages are being unlocked only now. You don't have to travel far though in this country to be brutally confronted with reality of live.
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The Bangladesh 'Eye'
28 November 2007
Ron Goertz
Thirteen days after the ‘Eye' followed a devastating trail of destruction, people in the coastal area are still laregly deprived of any electricity and are facing shortages of clean water and shelter. Only 1500 out of 18000 tube wells are functioning although the government is putting a lot of effort in to get this situation reversed. Some 1500 km roads in 2 coastal districts have been damaged and the cyclone simply washed away some 600 km of flood control embankment.
TNT emergency airlift operation for WFP Sudan
24 September 2007
Ron Goertz
Hetty van Doorn, TNT staff member for the Moving the World programme, based in the WFP Headquarters in Rome, received the request in the evening of the 5th of September and called Ferry Spaan, Emergency Response Officer at the Emergency Response desk in Duiven, The Netherlands on the 6th. Ferry’s immediate task was to find and coordinate an operational solution to transport 7 large warehouse tents from WFP’s depot in Brindisi, Italy to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.
