181 Quotes by Jan Egeland

It is not slow. The first three or four days there weren't even (open) roads here,

I fear we are losing the race against the clock in the small villages ... I've never seen such devastation before.

It is not right to sit with the money for reconstruction for one year from now if it is a question of whether people will still be alive.

These are people who have a strong attachment to their ancestral homes,

It is, in my view, not right to sit with reconstruction money for one year from now if we're not sure whether those people will be alive one year from now.

This is a good start but it is not enough. We need more money from more nations,

People are dying as we speak because we're not there in all of these villages where there are wounded people.

This has never ever happened before, that two weeks after a disaster that we have $717 million that we can spend on the immediate emergency effort.

Over the last few days, the world has finally woken up, but it took graphic images of dying children for this to happen,