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The DEC waited too long to launch Haiti appeal
The speed with which UK charities responded to the Haiti emergency was great. Almost all international relief charities had appeals online the Wednesday morning after the horrific quake, with Global Giving UK reporting to have already raised £2,467 from 20 donors.
However, I was shocked that for a large part of Wednesday, when many charities appeals were under way, the Disaster Emergency Committee’s website stated it was “assessing the situation” in Haiti. It held this status as I left work around 6pm.
On my return to work on Thursday, my colleague Celina said the DEC appeal had launched online the night before. A televised advert from DEC followed on Friday.
Why did DEC wait so long? Each charity must go through standard procedures before launching any appeal but surely in an emergency on the scale of Haiti this process must be sped up or even overlooked to get aid to those in need as quickly as possible.
Picture courtesy of ActionAid.
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Anon
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20 Jan 2010
By all accounts it looks like the real problem isn't on the funding end, but rather in the distribution of emergency aid that's already arrived and more so arriving every day. It looks like a logistical nightmare out there right now with destroyed infrstucture and security concerns creating a distribution bottle-neck at every turn - I don't envy the front-line aid-workers/UN & US troops their task.
As monies donated now will also go to reconstruction, I can only hope that these logistical issues are fixed promptly to assist in the rapid resolution to the current state of emergency, and that long-term recovery assistance can then be given to the Haitian people to help rebuild their lives.
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The DEC's response did seem slightly sluggish in comparison to some independent charities' responses, but having seen some new Haiti fundraising ideas, perhaps it may be best to wait and get it right.
While DEC may be too late, a fundraising initiative by Christian Aid's Ctrl.Alt.Shift (http://www.ctrlaltshift.co.uk/article/clubbing-haiti) for me is a little too soon.
The idea of 'clubbing for Haiti' just 8 days after the earthquake struck sits very uncomfortably with me. An event like this would encourage less cringeing if it was scheduled for further down the track, when the rescue workers have stopped pulling bloodied survivors from the rubble. But right now it just seems a little too flippant.
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