Cash and medicines - not food - the priority now, says Indonesia
American amphibious force to relieve cut-off areas
Brian Whitaker
Thursday January 6, 2005
The Guardian
Indonesia now has enough food and clothes to meet the needs of tsunami survivors but donations of money and medicines are still vital, its embassy in London said yesterday.
The embassy, which has set up a taskforce to process donations and deal with enquiries about missing people, said gifts of food had been "more than sufficient".
Deluged with offers of help, the affected countries face a battle to get the right kind of aid to the right places.
In Medan, on the island of Sumatra, US marine helicopters worked yesterday to remove a glut of supplies that had been dumped near a warehouse at the airport.
The supplies were loaded on to the USS Bonhomme Richard, a multipurpose assault ship, which will take them to the inaccessible west coast. There, they will be delivered to survivors by what General Christian Crowley, the head of the US military's relief mission in Indonesia, described as an "amphibious strike force".
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Brian Whitaker
Thursday January 6, 2005
The Guardian
Indonesia now has enough food and clothes to meet the needs of tsunami survivors but donations of money and medicines are still vital, its embassy in London said yesterday.
The embassy, which has set up a taskforce to process donations and deal with enquiries about missing people, said gifts of food had been "more than sufficient".
Deluged with offers of help, the affected countries face a battle to get the right kind of aid to the right places.
In Medan, on the island of Sumatra, US marine helicopters worked yesterday to remove a glut of supplies that had been dumped near a warehouse at the airport.
The supplies were loaded on to the USS Bonhomme Richard, a multipurpose assault ship, which will take them to the inaccessible west coast. There, they will be delivered to survivors by what General Christian Crowley, the head of the US military's relief mission in Indonesia, described as an "amphibious strike force".
Read more here
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Wesley,Cook
yeah, and then the asians, the africans, the hispanics, the caucasians (of whom, I suspect is the previous bonehead responder. . . .), the Islanders, the Native peoples of EVERYWHERE!!!! Yeah! Fuck 'em all, and YOU, BONEHEAD: you can be first.