Will We Fail Our Citizens?
I love the United States. Even with it flaws it is the best country in the world. Yet I wonder if we’re going to fail our citizens hit by Katrina the way’ the governments of Indonesian, India, and Sri Lanka failed their citizens.
A year after the waves spread destruction and death across South Asia, hundreds of thousands of tsunami victims still live in moldy tents and ramshackle camps where women are particularly vulnerable to abuse.
On the first anniversary of the tsunami Monday, 80% of the 1.8 million people left homeless by the disaster were still without "satisfactory permanent accommodation," the anti-poverty group Oxfam International estimates.
A survey of 2,300 tsunami victims released this month by the Fritz Institute, a San Francisco non-profit group, found that 100% of respondents in the hardest-hit parts of the Indonesian island Sumatra, 92% in India and 78% in Sri Lanka were still in tents or shelters.
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