181 Quotes by Jan Egeland

All in all we expect the U.N. involvement to grow as we expect there to be a very considerable increase in the number of international relief flights to the United States from many parts of the world.

Our biggest concern now is that we will have tremendous bottlenecks. Every day there are 60 to 100 trucks coming in from all over Pakistan.

All humanitarian organizations are acutely aware that our window of opportunity for action is closing with the onset of the severe winter.

Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.

The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is very serious. The need for international aid is big and growing.

Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.

The important thing is that we give and that we as citizens also demand that our countries give generously to those who have been so hard hit.

Many families are still not in permanent housing and now it's rainy season,

The goal of the fund is simple: to provide aid workers with funding to jump-start lifesaving relief operations .