Disastrous Disaster Management

While aid comes fast and furious, distribution is tortuously slow. Aid management must be improved.

January 11, 2005

EXPENSIVE Medicine. Handle With Care.” The stacks of brown cardboard boxes with the important notice were mounting up at Halim Perdanakusumah Airfield, Jakarta, last Wednesday. While not being thrown around, they are, however, just haphazardly piled up, waiting for a plane going to Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam. At another corner, several volunteers are working to select and sort aid that is arriving like the tsunami waves. Those who are working

...

More Articles