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Give tsunami survivors cash not food, thinktank tells NGOs
13 Jan 2005
Source: AlertNet

AlertNet (LONDON) - Sometimes disaster survivors might find cash or vouchers more useful than food or shelter, argue researchers for the Humanitarian Policy Group of the Overseas Development Institute, a London-based thinktank.

Click here to read Tsunami relief and reconstruction assistance: in-kind, or in cash? by Paul Harvey

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Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, head of the state reconstruction agency, BRR, smiles during an interview with Reuters in Jakarta December 19, 2007. More than 100,000 homes destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami have ...



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