Immediate short term aid included getting clean, fresh water, shelter and supplies to the survivors of the tsunami as the people who had survived had the job of clearing up the wreckage and debris from many islands with the hopeful help of many aid workers including the Australian army but we have to remember that these remaining people had to face the daunting prospect of trying to find and identify any friends and family they had lost in the process of this disaster. The long term aid included many people over the world helping as people in the countries hit need to rebuild absolutely everything in their lives and this includes building new houses and medicines as spread of disease is more likely as bodies that have not yet been recovered are starting to rot due to the sewage and dirty water but then many governments in all the countries look at the situation that the Asian side of the world are already in debt with many countries and this will therefore raise the assigned countries debt higher.
There have been problems that have hampered aid going in like, for example:
*People have not had the money to send aid out to help,
*Due to the tsunami, many roads have been washed away,
*Airstrips have been damaged, flooded or blocked by debris,
*Bridges and harbours have been washed away.
When the disaster took place, many Non Government Organizations (NGO’s) decided to help in any and every way they could. There were many charities that help and are still helping and these are:
+Disasters Emergency Committee,
+The World Food Programme,
+Oxfam,
+Islamic Relief,
+Unicef,
+Save the Children,
+Care International,
+Cafod,
+Islamic Aid,
+Muslim Hands,
+British Red Cross,
+Medair,
+Handicap International,
+World Vision,
+International Medical Corps,
+Christian Aid,
+Tear fund,
+Concern,
+International Rescue Committee,
+Salvation Army,
+Medicins Sans Frontieres,
+Muslim Aid,
+UN Refuge Agency,
+UNHCR,
+Christian Aid,
+Hindu Forum Disaster Relief Task Force,
+Action Aid,
+World Jewish Aid,
+Action Against Hunger,
+Merlin,
+World Health Organization,
+IFRC,
+US Committee for Refugees,
+Help The Aged.
Apart from these charities giving food, shelter, blankets, medicines, tents, torches, solar lamps, doctors and nurses have gone out to help and many donations from all over the world of money have been sent, many things and events have taken place such as a tsunami relief concert that had many musical artists perform at the Millennium Stadium which was packed out with as many as 61, 000 people and they have had celebrities minding phones for people ringing in to make donations and then as an aim to raise to donation fund higher, the celebrities then decided to auction of the phones that had been used by the likes of Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and George Clooney and also auctioned off their mugs they had used that they had then signed.
Aside of the aid being given, not all aid can help some people like the people who have lost family which they now have to face the impact of burying them but have to try and find them as they are burying people in mass graves and trenches as the present and latest death toll stands at the count of 280, 000 people.
This essay shows that no matter how small or how bi the aid is that we donate and send to people, it is always needed in every single way aid is always needed because there are a lot of people less fortunate than ourselves so it means an awful lot more to those people than it does to us.
Hannah Broughton.
10 DUG.