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...serious is the threat? Supervisors in at least one refugee center in Sri Lanka report that people have turned up asking if they can buy children. But government officials say they have found no credible evidence of organized trafficking in the country. Indonesian volunteers helping displaced kids in Aceh--where 35,000 or more children have been orphaned or separated from their parents--tell TIME they are approached daily by people falsely claiming to be relatives of the orphans. UNICEF director Carol Bellamy warned of the danger after agency employees in Indonesia received text messages from a group purporting...
...help over the next six months. Now it must go through the painstaking process of matching donors to dozens of projects in five countries as well as to overall regional aid. That means persuading donors to fund not just the high-profile, big-ticket projects like clearing debris in Aceh and monitoring disease outbreaks in Sri Lanka but the small-scale tasks as well. Somali fishermen need $1.9 million to repair their boats; $750,000 would measure damage to coral reefs in the Maldives. Some countries will give the U.N. unrestricted aid, but for the most part, each project needs...
...been in war and I've been through a number of hurricanes, tornadoes and otherrelief operations, but I have never seen anything like this." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, after surveying the devastation in Aceh, Indonesia, caused by the tsunami that struck...
...first there were some friends with me ... after a few days they were gone." RIZAL SYAHPUTRA, Indonesian police trainee, who survived for eight days adrift at sea after the tsunami swept him away from a mosque in Aceh...
...donors to piece together the lives they have lost. --Reported by Aravind Adiga/ Kudathanai; Denis Giles/aboard the relief ship MV Sentinel; Robert Horn/ aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln; Carolina A. Miranda and Deirdre van Dyk/ New York; Alex Perry/ Port Blair; Eric Roston/ Washington; and Jason Tedjasukmana/ Banda Aceh...