This will be the last entry that I will be writing involving disasters that I have learned from the website Relief Web. I figured that three different posts from the same website was enough to prove that is was a legitimate site and I suggest that others use this website it you get stuck looking for something to write about for your remaining blog posts. As for this next blog post I will be writing on the flooding in Vietnam in September of 2011 and the affects it had on the people inhabiting the area. Vietnamese authorities say 100 people are now dead due to serious flooding that has plagued the nation for weeks. The new death toll had included 17 people killed across central Vietnam, which has been decimated with heavy rains in recent days.
According to Bhupinder Tomar, a representative of the International Federation of the Red Cross who is based in Hanoi, “the flood waters are beginning to recede — at least in Vietnam's central region”. Following the flooding, more than 20,000 victims to the floods were taken away from their homes due to this disaster. According to a specialist in the field by the name of Tomar, “This will certainly aggravate the humanitarian crisis”. Statistics show that more than 800 people have been killed across Southeast Asia from unusually heavy seasonal monsoon rains. Tomar says the IFRC is trying to raise more than $2 million to help affected people with cash grants for such things as housing reconstruction, and the replacement of boats and fishing nets.
The aid in this situation is not as dire as compared to the event of a major earthquake such as the one we have talked about so much in Haiti. Instead, I felt that blogging about a flood would show a different angle to humanitarian efforts. Because the damage was extremely severe, but the circumstances are not as dire that they need to rescue people as quickly. Due to this reason for the circumstances, the use of many available technologies that we have hear about all semester were not necessary for relief efforts such use the use and implementation of social networking for disaster relief. For this particular incident, it was only necessary to send out the rescue teams large trucks and boats in order to venture through the flood in order to save people.
After looking back on this class, I feel that earthquakes and terrorist attacks are the worst events out there and these are the events that humanitarian efforts are the most prepared to deal with. I feel that this was a prime example of saying that this isn’t the worst thing that could happen so be thankful. Below is a link that describes events during this natural disaster:
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