HSIE Assessment Task 2010: 2004 Tsunami: Human Responses

Around 3 Billions of US dollars in cash is claimed to be donated from around the world for recovering the damages. The response didn’t come really fast as people and i myself were expecting but they are coming after all. Medical aids just from a company called Direct Relief Global reached 45 million of dollars, which were very large for an individual company, and to add more they even donated 13 million of dollars in cash to Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.  The governments of the affected countries are really unstable, and because of that fact they can’t supply and deliver much aids for the needs at the moment. The conditions of the transportation paths are really bad so they aren’t getting enough aids as were promised.

People’s lives are in serious danger because of the mobilization of aids are frozen because of  bad condition of infrastructures, so in another word, the helpers are ready to help, the victims are there waiting for the aids and the governments are struggling finding ways to make the helpers and victims communicate and supply aids immediately.

One of the smaller factors of the late delivery of goods were relief problems. People from accross the globe from different countries, they have different lives and different relieves. They are currently sharing the same goal of supplying the goods together, but they also need to keep their reputation, showing their values and why they are better than everyone else. That aren’t really stopping much of the aids from getting to people’s hands after all because they are working that out nicely.

Images:
http://www.superchefblog.com/images/tsunami_tamilnadu500x400.png

http://www-project.slac.stanford.edu/wis/images/SearchforBelongings.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Humanitarian_aid_Sumatra_Tsunami_2004.jpeg

Web:

http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/tsunami/overview.php

http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2004/EarthquakeandTsunamiIndianOcean.aspx

http://www.library.hbs.edu/tsunami/tsunamichallenges.html

All were accessed on 16/3/10