[extropy-chat] Re: [silk] Donating fopr tsunami (fwd from thaths at gmail.com)

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Thaths <thaths at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:23:24 +0530
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Subject: Re: [silk] Donating fopr tsunami
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Biju Chacko wrote:
>Madhu Menon wrote:
>>OK, I want to donate a good chunk of change to the relief effort, but 
>>don't want to give it to the "Prime Minister's Relief Fund" just to 
>>see it siphoned off into some arsehole's pocket.
>Ideally, I'd like to make my donations in kind rather than cash.

From what I saw in Cuddalore there are three types of needs of people:

1. Short term. Food, clothing, blankets, medicines, temporary shelter. 
This is being attended to swimmingly in Cuddalore.

2. Medium term. Temporary shelter for people to move back to their 
villages, community kitchens, pots and pans, identification papers and 
documents, groceries for the interim. The government and NGOs have begun 
to mobilize on this one. I expect this need will exist for at least 
another month.

3. Long term. Counsellings, schools rebuilding, Career development for 
those that do not want to fish any more, construction of houses, buying 
of boats, etc. This is where I see problems. Donor fatigue would have 
set in and the government would have moved on to fight some other 
battle. The reporters would have gone someplace else to report on some 
man biting a dog and the NGOs would have gone with their logo-ed 
t-shirts to hang around the camera crew. I really think professionals 
(civil engineers, sanitation experts, psychology and psychiatric 
counsellors) are very needed during this period.

Thaths
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