Emergency Needs Continue in Pakistan Quake Zone

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/284081/113571450885.htm

Hundreds of thousands of people affected by the earthquake in South Asia--particularly in Pakistan--are still without shelter.

"Of course we're all working night and day to provide as quickly as we can whatever temporary shelter we can get from governments' and aid organizations' contributions," notes Church World Service’s Marvin Parvez.

"The demand for winterized tents is bigger than the supplies available," Parvez says. "For those reasons, CWS also began providing alternative shelter materials early on in the rescue and recovery mission." CWS is providing corrugated tin sheeting to survivors--some of which is being reused from the roofs of mud brick homes that are otherwise rubble following the massive quake. The metal sheeting is fireproof and can withstand strong winds.

"There are no perfect solutions and none seem quick enough or in sufficient quantity to accomplish the unprecedented task at hand," says Parvez, eyeing the descending Himalayan winter.

[teryang]

1. Maybe if they sold their F16s and quit building nukes they could

...care for their people in an emergency?

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2. Kind of hard when the Pakistani people have a dictator as their leader n/t