A day of more of the same really. We went to a small refugee camp in a football staudion next to a college that had collapsed. Again being a Saturday morning when the quake struck lots of children were at school.
One of the reasons for schools and hospitals being so badly affected in particular is that the builders used more sand than cement in the concrete - cutting costs but in return making them very brittle.
At the camp an aid truck turned up. One woman was berating everyone to get back and form an orderly queue but of course no one was having any of it and they were all scrabbling hands outstretched as items were thrown from the back.
A lot of these trucks contained aid from the major cities and had been driven up - all very well intentioned but when they got to a partucular random point the stuff was just thrown out to waiting folk - which is no wonder pandemonium ensued.
Given that there was only one road in and out it wouldn’t have been hard to corral these trucks in a seperate area and send them out in an orgainsed fashion.
Our edit suite got upgraded today with sign on the door too.
And Richard made friends with a pup.
