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by Island Aid on Wednesday, May 18
@ 7:15 PM
Maybe the world's leaders have no idea of what it is like on the ground in Aceh... University Volunteers help Pulau Raya villagers to build a bridge out to a boat landing over submerged coastline. Just to get tents and food ashore is a major exercise.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Rebuilding tsunami-ravaged Asia is extremely slow, the United Nations warned as global business leaders met for the first time since the December 26 tragedy to devise swift reconstruction plans with governments.
"The reconstruction effort is still too slow," lamented Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator.
"I am concerned with people in the displacement camps that it (reconstruction) is going slower than they had expected to get back to their homes, their livelihood," he told reporters at the conference
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