South East Asia Tsunami Recovery

Stephen Rupert

Mr. Longo

English

April 3, 2006

South East Asia's Tsunami Recovery

Southeast Asia is slow in its efforts to make the once beautiful cities and homebound areas a livable place again for its previous residents. There are many different aspects contributing to this specific problem. Several of the most apparent problems are lack of strategy, motivation and caring. The most prevalent reason however, is that there is no clear strategy in recreating a livable state for the people. The government has been supplied with oodles of money to fix whatever needs fixed, although nothing seems to be getting accomplished. A second thing to consider is the series of preventable accidents that have taken toll on the progress of rebuilding Southeast Asia. If the government and other various officials that are overseeing this operation wish to be taken seriously they must take more care in their work, and be able to foresee such inevitable occurrences. A final thought is the complete lack of caring and motivation that goes into the efforts to re-erect Southeast Asia's livable estates. There have been numerous missed opportunities that could have accomplished double what has been done thus far in half the time. Taking all of these matters into consideration, it is easy to see how Southeast Asia has been slow in reorganizing its structure after the devastating tsunami that ravaged its inhabitants last December.

Millions of dollars have been sent to Southeast Asia to help speed up the process of making its cities a place people can call home again. Regardless of these generously large sums of money being sent from caring people, there seems to be a total lack of strategy. All of the money coming in seems as if it is going right back out with no real improvement being done to the ruins of the affected cities. It would appear as if this money that has been incoming for such a long period of time would still be at hand, because it has not been clearly used on anything to help the situation. This however, is not exactly the case, the government has managed to spend a large amount of this charitable money in spite of the complete lack of result. This is extremely questionable because there is very little, if any, evidence of advancements in the