Read the August 21st, 2010 BBC article at the link below. Then write your blog response as a comment to this post. Don't forget to include the following in your comment:
3 sentence summary of the article
2-3 sentences of reflection
2 questions
1 prediction
Pakistani flood victims' anger at U.S.
Questions for reflection:
1. How does U.S. aid to Pakistan compare to U.S. aid to Haiti earlier this year?
For more information on the impact of Pakistan's monsoon floods:
CNN Pakistan floods
More BBC Articles on Pakistan Floods
17 comments:
Pakistan and the U.S. have an agreement to fight terrorism, as they said “ Now is the time to show the commitment to us”. In Pakistan they where already suffering from bombs exploding every day. Pakistanis are mad to the U.S. because they are the biggest donator on the world helping everybody and know that they need all there help the U.S. can’t do it because they are spending allot of money on the in the Afghanistan war.
1. How does U.S. aid to Pakistan compare to U.S. aid to Haiti earlier this year?
Haiti was more severe than the Pakistan flood. Haiti in terms of economy is allot more worst than Pakistan. But for Haiti it was all the world that help them not only the U.S. So for me they have to be patient and try to survive and help will arrive soon.
1. Why they do a worldwide campaign asking for help and that will give them a jump start to get better?
2. Why there only angry at the U.S. why only them ? Its no there responsibility there doing what they can.
I think that Pakistanis will not have more pacient and it would be a bigger disaster and really for them they will really make their lives worst instead of blaming all to the U.S. and start to think how to overpass this situation.
Eduardo Pocasangre
Sumery
In Pakistan a violent flood destroyed many homes and lost millios of dolars in basic materialssuch as shcool resources. This floods have bring in pakistan a lot of violence due to the poor amount of food that the US and other nations is giving. But not only this, many people have died and left many childs without family and without a place were to sleep and eat.
Reflection
I think the US hasent helped asmuch as it helped Taiti for different rasons. One that I think that wahas really determinant whas that Haity became the problem number one for aid donations so the US maby saw that like a kind of propagand to the world.
Questions
1.Wy the aid was not fairly distributed?
2.Is the government treating the damage of the flood seriously or is just waiting for other countris to help?
Prediction
I think that this flood has destroied thousends of homes and rebuidem woul be an easy task to accomplish, so my prediction is that this problem wold las for long and some peoplemay not be ableto have a home again.
The flood in Pakistan is causing a big chaos. People are suffering; they have staid without any home and food. Pakistani people want the government to give theme some food, houses, material things, etc. They also blame the west side (The U.S) for failing in giving theme enough help. There has been fighting in the camps. What I think that should happen is that the government should help more the needed people and not depend that much in the U.S, but I think that the U.S should give theme help because they are receiving help from theme in the terrorist war.
Why do a lot of countries depend in the help of the U.S?
Does the Pakistan government have any money?
I think that the Pakistan people will not get everything they want, because their government doesn’t have that much money but they will at least get a little home.
The U.S aid that the U.S gave to Haiti was bigger. I think Haiti is poorer than Pakistan so that’s why Haiti received more. For Haiti there were a lot of campaigns for collecting money. In Haiti there were more people that needed help.
Luis Vieytez
Pakistan is suffering a tremendous dilema. A massive flood covered an area known as Zarinabad. Hundreds of families have been left homeless, and yet thousands of people have been injured. The army had a great impact in this problem, helping the families, giving away aid and clean drinking water, and a lot of food. Even the army schools have been a refuge for the people in need.What do the villagers think about the goverment? The villagers got angry at the goverment for not doing anything about it, and they have said that they will not vote in the next election.
Reflection:
The U.S. has done nothing to help the Pakistani people from the flood compared to Haiti. The States says that they have been using too much money on the Afghan war and on Haiti. For the meanwhile, the army has been the most helpful service around and I think that they will be the only ones that are going to be around.
Pakistan has been experiencing floods lately and leaving many people without homes. Lots of people have lost everything, and now they need more than just sugar and flour. Many are blaming de government for not giving more aid, since what they have is not enough. I think Pakistan is in a very bad situation because of the floods, and to top it off, bombs are still going off and people are still getting shot. It makes me sad that they are in bad conditions living in tents. It also makes me sad that schools have also lost books and supplies, so kids will not be able to continue studying after the crisis unless they get replaced. I think that the United States helped Haiti more than Pakistan, but I think they were definitely in worse conditions, since Haiti was already a poor country. Why are they blaming the United States, when its not their responsibility but of the Pakistan government? Why is there fighting in the camps when they are supposed to help each other in this time of need? I hope that countries help them so that they will stop living like that.
Pakistan is in great danger right now. They are suffering from heavy floods; people have lost their homes, family members, and food. The army is trying to help however they can; the government has been giving flour and sugar to the damaged people. Pakistanis live in camps wherever they can find land not flooded with water. Inside the camps people are enraged; they say the government isn’t helping enough. Others say that they had helped the United States with their war on terror and expect help they are not getting right now. I think the United States should try to help these people. Soldiers have given their lives to stop terrorism for the U.S, but now that they need help they decide to ignore it. What is even more upsetting is there is still violence in the country; people are still bombing and killing people. Some questions I have are: How come the government isn’t reacting as fast as it can to resolve this issue? What businessmen are giving donations to the damaged people and their connection to the Unites States? My prediction is that the U.S is not going to like the bad reputation Pakistan is giving them and will start to help to solve this issue and work with the government to help the people. 1. How does U.S. aid to Pakistan compare to U.S. aid to Haiti earlier this year? When Haiti was in grave danger the whole United States helped the country. Various singers and actors even visited the country and had fundraisers to help them.
Matias Gonzalez
Pakistan is in a great problem with the flood in the little village called Zarinabad. The problem that they are receiving is that because of the flood the people lose their belongings and maybe houses. Pakistanis are mad with the U.S. because they always help countries that need donations and now when Pakistan needs donations the U.S. is not taking importance of what is happening. So people in Zarinabad are losing patience because only people from aid companies are helping. Why should people from Pakistan threaten the U.S. if there were the only ones that could help in the world? Why is the U.S. ignoring them if they did not care what occurred in Zarinabad? I think what will happen next is that people from Pakistan will forget and they will act normal with the aids companies helping.
1.How does U.S. aid to Pakistan compare to U.S. aid to Haiti earlier this year?
The U.S. is not helping Pakistan at anytime as compared to Haiti. I think this is happening because Haiti collapsed and almost all the country fell down and because Haiti is one of the most poor countries in the world.
This article talks about Pakistan in great danger. There have been very big floods and the majority of poor people are loosing their homes and they live in edges of the street in poorly made tents, school have been flooded too so that makes the children from Pakistan have less resources to study and learn. The United States as the big country it is has not help that much to Pakistan, even thought Pakistan do help them in the war against Afghanistan. The floods does not make the people in Pakistan stop bombing each other and is that is even worst because more people die every day. I hope the United State do help them because the country is in a hard moment and Pakistan have help them in their hard moments. I also think that the bombing should now even more because that only makes worst’s the country’s state. I hope they can get through it fast and with out violence. Now I have two questions: Has this happen in Pakistan? What are other ways to solve the problem? I think that the US helped more Haiti because it is a poorer country and I think it was more dangerous an earth quake than floods but I still floods are dangerous and I hope they can fix it as soon as possible.
When the U.S. saw that Haiti they helped a lot. They collected money, rescued lots of people and helped Haiti to rebuilt their homes and builings. Now that Pakistan needs help from other countries to rescue the people and help get food and shelter the U.S. is almost no where to see. It is incredible that when Pakistan needs help the U.S. helps very little but when Haiti needs hel they help a lot, why not help Pakistan just like they helped Haiti. Pakistan helped the U.S. to fight the war on terror and now that Pakistan needs help they do very little. How come Pakistan is still being bombed even when a flood just striked all of their homes, and why does U.S. doesnt help them? When Pakistan helped the U.S. didnt the U.S. said that they would help them in the future, why not now? I think that in the future when the war on terror is over Pakistan wont help the U.S. since they didnt help them when they were in need.
Last Friday there was a flood on Pakistan which destroyed a lot of houses. People in Pakistan are mad with the US because they are not helping them enough. The aid they have received right now, it’s not enough for the whole country. Pakistan and the U.S. have an agreement to fight terrorism so now they said “Is the time for U.S. helps with the flood.”
I feel that Pakistanis are having problems with money. Now I feel that USA should help more Pakistanis on this problem which is poverty.
Why is the US not helping Pakistanis enough on this problem?
Why don’t they ask other countries for help?
I am sure that if the Pakistani government asks the UN for help, they will help Pakistan with this disaster, as they have done it before for other countries.
Pakistan suffered a catastrophic flood causing tremendous disaster. They are expecting for the U.S to give them some help since they are together in fighting terrorism. Bombs and violence where already happening in Pakistan. Since the U.S is the world’s biggest contributor to the most needed countries, Pakistan feels the U.S should help them. I think the U.S is very generous and they can’t help everyone, although Pakistan is having a rough time. The U.S is also spending about $5bn dollars per month in the Afghanistan war. Other wealthy countries should help Pakistan.
1. How does U.S. aid to Pakistan compare to U.S. aid to Haiti earlier this year?
First of all Haiti’s problem was bigger than the flood in Pakistan. Much more money was given to Haiti, especially because everyone all over the world was helping, but Haiti most definitely needed more help. The U.S always contributes when things like this happen sooner or later they will give at least some money to help Pakistan.
1. Why when a natural catastrophe happens the countries all seek the U.S? Why don’t the other wealthy countries help too?
2. Why is the U.S, which is very generous, not involved yet with this Pakistan flood issue?
Pakistan is a really poor country and the last thing they needed was a flood, but you can’t control Mother Nature. My prediction is that Pakistan will have to wait keep their hopes up because help will get to them. It’s really sad that a lot of families are homeless and starving.
Pakistan is ruined under all their floods, with or without help they are ruined because even with the help of the US it is impossible for them to recover everything that has been damaged or destroyed. The US also has it's hands full with the war going on at Afghanistan. It took 20 years to get so far and it will take more time to restore it to what it was.
1. How does U.S. aid to Pakistan compare to U.S. aid to Haiti earlier this year?
To start with Haiti was already in economic problems, Haiti was very poor even before the catastrophe. But even though Haiti was poor they had alot more people helping them aound the world.
I guess the US should evacuate everyone to somewhere safe and then just send them back when everything has calmed down.
1. Why are people only mad at people who help them, it is not their problem so why are they helping them if they don't appreciate it?
Pakistan is ruined under all their floods, with or without help they are ruined because even with the help of the US it is impossible for them to recover everything that has been damaged or destroyed. The US also has it's hands full with the war going on at Afghanistan. It took 20 years to get so far and it will take more time to restore it to what it was.
1. How does U.S. aid to Pakistan compare to U.S. aid to Haiti earlier this year?
To start with Haiti was already in economic problems, Haiti was very poor even before the catastrophe. But even though Haiti was poor they had alot more people helping them aound the world.
I guess the US should evacuate everyone to somewhere safe and then just send them back when everything has calmed down.
1. Why are people only mad at people who help them, it is not their problem so why are they helping them if they don't appreciate it?
I think that Pakistan is really going down under this flood. There is a lot of commotion and fights all over the country. Some of the problems were caused by USA. They offered help and didn’t give them anything. They help every country in need all over the world and when Pakistan pleads for help, US doesn’t respond to their call. I think that US is causing half of the problems and the fights in Pakistan
Why does US ignore Pakistan’s call?
3 summary sentences
With the world cup, the foreigners had a break with all the attacks to them. When Ghana was the last hope for the African continent to win the world cup, all the South African people where cheering them, but when Ghana lost the match everything went to normal again and the South Africans started attacking the foreigners. South Africans resented that the foreigners came to take away the jobs they could be doing.
2-3 sentences of reflection
If all the people are from the same continent, they should help each other instead of fighting between them. No one has the right to go at night to a house and threaten a women with her baby to leave the country, just because she is a foreigner.
2 questions
- Why doesn’t the police lock away all the people that are attacking the foreigners?
- Why doesn’t everybody try to live in peace like they did at the world cup?
1 prediction
My prediction is that peace leads to more peace and war leads to more war. So if they don’t decide for peace they will end up fighting with a big war.
JF NOUBLEAU
Summary: Since there was a really horrible and strong flood in Pakistan it destroyed a lot of homes and made the country lose millions of dollars in materials like school things etc. The floods brought Pakistan a lot of violence having to do with the small amount of food that the U.S and other countries have to give. Also many people died and left kids without families, houses and places to eat.
Reflection: What I personally think is that the U.S did not help Pakistan as much as it helped Haiti. Also when the earthquake occurred in Haiti it was a big problem because everyone around the world knew about it so that is why so many countries helped and made it public.
Questions: How does the U.S donations for Pakistan compare to the donations they gave to Haiti?
The donations for Haiti were bigger because, Haiti has been a country with a lot of problems as well as economic so when the tragic earthquake occurred many more countries helped Haiti including the U.S so that is why Haiti had more donations.
Why are the Pakistanis mad at the U.S only?
I think they are mad because the U.S donated more things to Haiti, but I think they should be thankful because the U.S could have decided not to help, but they did. Pakistanis should not only be mad at the U.S they don’t have a reason to they should get mad at the other countries who did not help them (Pakistan).
I also think that this was very tragic. A lot of people lost their jobs, houses, families. I also think that after this a lot of Pakistanis will travel to other countries to live and find jobs etc.
Summary: Since there was a really horrible and strong flood in Pakistan it destroyed a lot of homes and made the country lose millions of dollars in materials like school things etc. The floods brought Pakistan a lot of violence having to do with the small amount of food that the U.S and other countries have to give. Also many people died and left kids without families, houses and places to eat.
Reflection: What I personally think is that the U.S did not help Pakistan as much as it helped Haiti. Also when the earthquake occurred in Haiti it was a big problem because everyone around the world knew about it so that is why so many countries helped and made it public.
Questions: How does the U.S donations for Pakistan compare to the donations they gave to Haiti?
The donations for Haiti were bigger because, Haiti has been a country with a lot of problems as well as economic so when the tragic earthquake occurred many more countries helped Haiti including the U.S so that is why Haiti had more donations.
Why are the Pakistanis mad at the U.S only?
I think they are mad because the U.S donated more things to Haiti, but I think they should be thankful because the U.S could have decided not to help, but they did. Pakistanis should not only be mad at the U.S they don’t have a reason to they should get mad at the other countries who did not help them (Pakistan).
I also think that this was very tragic. A lot of people lost their jobs, houses, families. I also think that after this a lot of Pakistanis will travel to other countries to live and find jobs etc.
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