To the point...

By Beatrix Campbell, Nursery World, 20 October 2005

Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell questions how aid is distributed to one-off and everyday disasters There's a field hospital on a lawn in Jalal Abad, Pakistan. The hospital was a table and a chair. 'That was all, because there is no furniture left here,' said one of the survivors of the earthquake which left not a house standing in his valley about 150 kilometres from Islamabad. Towards the end of the week the army brought two tents. 'Now we have a proper functioning hospital.' Two tents, a table and a chair.

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