November 15, 2013
News

Aid doesn't start flowing until after a disaster takes place, but NGOs and relief organizations need cash before it all hits the fan. How do you solve that pickle of a problem?

A week after typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines, food, water, and medicine started pouring into the island nation, but they arrived with no designated way to reach the storm's neediest victims.

Six days after the storm hit, there were reports that most citizens in Tacloban, the city of 220,000 hit hard by the typhoon, had not received any aid and were going on a week without food, water, shelter, and other necessities.

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Fortune