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...That WFP estimate covers only the cost of food to ward off starvation (the quake destroyed the villagers' regular winter stores). Helicopters cost up to $16,000 an hour to operate, and much more money is needed to rebuild homes and schools and to provide medical care for the sick and injured. The weather has been relatively dry so far. But with temperatures in areas above 1,500 m now dipping to -8?C, shelter is an immediate concern. There aren't enough tin sheets, a construction staple, to go around. At higher elevations, only about 10% of residents have...
...wounded staggering in. For the worst injured, he arranged a makeshift ambulance service to ferry them over the mountains to hospitals 26 miles away. He bought 150 tents for homeless families and allowed them to camp on his land, and he has established a fund to help villagers rebuild their demolished homes. From his tent office, he's fighting with Pakistan's bureaucracy to send in bulldozers and start clearing out the fallen buildings. Even while hustling fares in his taxi, Khan says, he was convinced that God had something special in mind for him: "I just didn't know...
...Baghdad, he said. He was then flown to a hospital in Germany and finally to the U.S., where he arrived at what he considers home—the base of the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Ky.Morris said he is now undergoing physical therapy in order to rebuild the muscle in his leg.“I hope to be back up and running within three months, but it all depends on how long it takes for my leg to heal,” he said.Major J. Frank Garcia, an officer in the Army’s Public Affairs...
...another great American tragedy, the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s, people didn't wait for government help to rebuild in an untenable environment. Instead they moved to places better suited for habitation. How much would it cost to build a reliable levee around New Orleans-$25 billion? $50 billion? For $25 billion, we could build new $90,000 homes for 275,000 households displaced by Katrina. Simple economics says New Orleans should not be rebuilt. Charlie Smith Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...company’s University and Community Relations Committee, decided to give the money to student-oriented organizations. According to Gene Corbin, the executive director of PBHA, The COOP’s contributions will comprise the majority of funding for PBHA’s “Helping Rebuild the Gulf Coast” project, which will send groups of Harvard students to the Gulf Coast areas most affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita during intersession. “PBHA is incredibly appreciative of the Harvard COOP for making it possible for Harvard students to be involved in helping rebuild...