50% of tsunami funds spent by Red Cross so far

News December 31, 2006

In the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, the Red Cross movement collected the equivalent of over SEK 15 billion. A progress report marking the two-year anniversary of the catastrophe shows that just 11 per cent of this was spent on emergency relief.

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