Today was hard in some ways. Around 200 people closed down the National Disaster Management Offce through a protest around the distribution of temporary shelter fixes. The group of agencies, including The Salvation Army, who have some role to play in this area have worked hard to ensure supply, but are around a week away from reaching the whole population, particularly in dense unplanned urban areas.
These areas include almost double the population on any census, are mostly informal and insecure shelters and represent many of the most vulnerable people, but also some of the hardest to reach. This is simply because you never know how many people are actually there, nor the critical vulnerabilities that you will uncover while at work.
Credit is due to our team, along with five of the other key agencies who, this afternoon, really did throw everything on the table to try and get the job done. It will make for a interesting few days as we fill the gaps and hit the road, but we will get there.
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