ABC News: Tsunami Relief Inadequate in Many Areas

ABC News: Tsunami Relief Inadequate in Many Areas

"Tsunami Relief Inadequate in Many AreasTsunami Relief Inadequate in Many Areas As Refugees Continue to Suffer, U.N. Report Says
Workers take a break from clean-up work in an area devastated by the Dec. 26 tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. Reconstruction of buildings has started as Indonesia attempts to reduce the number of people living in refugee camps a month after the tsunami.
The Associated Press
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia Jan 28, 2005
More than a month after the devastating tsunami, one in eight children in Indonesia's Aceh province is not getting enough to eat, the threat of disease still stalks relief camps and aid deliveries are inconsistent, two U.N. reports said.
But the overall picture is one of improvement, the world body insisted Friday.
'We know there are needs that are not being met (But) we are no longer worried about (whether) anyone is starving. The schools are reopening. That is a sure sign of recovery,' Bo Asplund, the U.N. representative in Indonesia, told The Associated Press in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital. "