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What are the immediate needs?

From Tsunami in Asia | Primary school assembly ideas

What to do

• Ask what the pupils think people like Prabhakaran, his daughter and the people of their village need urgently right away? These might include:

• Clear and repair airport runways
• Temporary shelter for people who have lost homes
• Clean, safe water supplies
• Emergency food supplies
• Medicines and medical equipment
• 'Family kits' of cooking and hygiene supplies
• Clothes
• Safe removal of dead human bodies and animal carcasses
• Blankets
• Clear and repair airport runways
• Find missing people
• Temporary hospitals
• Sanitation facilities
• Fuel
• Mosquito nets
• Clear debris

• Reflect on how people across the world have wanted to help meet those needs and to make a difference - people in the affected countries and also people in other countries such as our own.
• Acknowledge ledge that lots of money has already been given by individuals and governments. But how does that money make a difference?
• Introduce the 'Oxfam interview' as a way of helping us all to understand how a charity such as Oxfam uses the money that people give to make a difference in the relief effort.

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From Tsunami in Asia | Primary school assembly ideas