Well,

The worlds biggest donors really shook the Asian "Tsunami" hit countries.

Here is the report HOW.

The USA "pledged" $857 million to the Tsunami hit but "allocated" just $366 million.

Australia "pledged" $739million but "allocated" just $136 million

Germany "pledged" $643 million but "allocated" just $126 million

Canada "pledged" $341 million but "allocated" just $125 million.


ISN't That Shocking?

On the other Hand JAPAN "pleadged" $500 million but "allocated" $552 million.


(Source:- "The Hindustan Times" India's Daily. )


No Offence Intended. :peace:

Here are TWO LINKS (plz copy and paste them)

Link 1 :- Link 1

Link 2 :- Link 2

[ 05-22-2005, 12:43 PM: Message edited by: Memnoch ]

well.. i am just grateful they gave in the first place.

I can obviously see two sides in this argument so I will not comment any more. ;)

edit: that an i have to leave in 2 mins. so cya :D

[ 05-21-2005, 04:18 AM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]

IIRC Australia's pledge was to span over 5 years. So they are a bit behind on that but as long as that money is allocated in the next 5 years budget its great.

Also to save confusion when making statements like that you may want to link to the website where you got those facts from. It makes it alot eaiser. So for the above claims you may want to link showing where you got the allocated funds from.

Cheers

It shouldn't matter, money was never the issue, the Phillipines even said that they didn't need their friggin money, because they themselves had plenty of reserves. What they did need however were skilled engineers, medical assistance, and transportation.

Which they got and many soldiers and engineers from all countries are still in the region helping with the rebuilding process.

LINKS PROVIDED in first Post.

But what i wanna say is that the Rebuilding state in Sri Lanka and Indonasia is real bad ... They NEED MONEY and when the WORLD DONORS are not Donating its real Tough for them.

Countries like India and Phil. refused donations does not mean everyone can Do without them.

No Offence intended plz [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 05-21-2005, 06:51 AM: Message edited by: a_decent_1 ]

This means they have finally decided to do with aprt of the money. The rest is still unalocated because they are deciding on where to best spend it. The reason that the money is comming out slowly is that if they flood the country with money then alot of it will be lost due to mis-managed funds or corruption.

The other article is from Aljazeera so I don't think I will comment on those findings since I have read alot of one sided articles posted on there before.

Also moveing this to the CE Forum.

Yeah thats True but we need to think on it also that it has been 5 months Since the Tsunami disaster, If the "allocation" process remains this SLOW, The number of deaths and Sufferings wld INCREASE.

But Don't u think just One-tenth of the Actual Amount "allocated" is just too Small?

This article says nothing about the millions upon millions of private donation money, nor does it say about other private organizations that are in there helping to rebuild, etc.

<font color=skyblue>Just what I was going to say. The afore-mentioned quotes of money are incorrect, meaning they do not detail all funds given by the countries listed,,,and as it was mentioned above, not all of it can be given in 24 hours...nor was it ever "pledged" to be given within even a month. It just happened in December, and the money is still pouring in, I am sure.

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