NPR & BBC Reports on Relief Updates from the Ground-Oct 17

1. NPR's "The Worlds" New Radio Report from Andrea Crossan
(very good update)


Go to this link and find the Radio Listening button for :
Pakistan/India Earthquake Aid Report (3:35 mins)

http://www.theworld.org/latesteditions/10/20051017.shtml


The death toll for the Pakistan/India Earthquake is at 40,000, and is estimated to rise. Aid agencies are warning that survivors of the earthquake are dying from exposure as temperatures continue to drop and there aren't enough tents available. The World's Andrea Crossan reports.

2. BBC New Article. - A good one to circulate to get news media to really re-ignite this story and put it back on the front pages.

Tents crisis hits quake victims (article link below)

"Only the heaviest tents will protect against the brutal Kashmiri winterThere are not enough warm tents in the world to protect refugees from the South Asia earthquake from the coming winter, a top UN official has warned.

Andrew Macleod told the BBC that the emergency was so vast it was an even bigger challenge than the 2004 tsunami.

He said the problem was growing every day, and was "outside the scope of any government to handle"....

...He said the relief operation was "mobilising every possible resource" to reach such people, "from massive helicopters to feet", and including mules.

But he said the challenge was bigger than after the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran, or even the 2004 tsunami.

"Here we've got over 15,000 villages spread out through the affected region," he told the BBC's Newshour radio programme.

"The affected areas are much larger in geographical size than the tsunami, and rather than being in flat coastal areas, we are operating in some of the highest mountains and deepest valleys in the world."

GO TO the link for the full article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4350194.stm