Blog # 3 Disaster Relief: Climate Change And Urbanization Will Impact Humanitarian Aid, Poll Shows

People have left their farms to find work in the cities due to the terrible droughts that affected the farm land. But the cities are very close to the coast and the farmers are forced to live in the slums that are regularly flooded. Climate change increases the risks great that flooding would happen frequently and cause destructive floods. Humanitarians need to help more often because there has been an additional problem such as droughts and high food prices. With these problems happening repeatedly there needs to be extra money to help the ones in need when a crisis happens. One way is for rich states and charities to donate money, another is to cut costs of the U.N. agencies that lend a helping hand. One other suggestion is to have disaster-prone communities make themselves more resilient to crises. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is trying to do that with building more durable houses and schools.  But many people do not want to help until there is a crisis. It makes the donor look and sound better; by donating money to the country that just had a crisis. Countries and donors are spending a lot of money on helping after the crisis, but this could all be saved if they would just fix the problem from the beginning. There is a prediction that there will be a funding cut from the government for the humanitarian aid in the next five years. Some major challenges are effective delivery of aid and the increasingly complex disasters.

People are being affected by climate change in many ways. First, their once farm lands have turned to dust due to the droughts. Second, with more and more people needing jobs they are moving to the cities where they are promised jobs, but they are barely paid and forced to live in the slums. They do not have the type of houses that will stand up to the natural disasters that are being created due to climate change. This is a problem that needs to be fixed because, like the article states, we are spending money on helping the countries and the poorest people of that country recover instead of just helping them from the very beginning and saving time, money, and people. It also does not help when we continue to send people into the cities due to the increasing number of jobs that are being available instead of staying on the farm. People need to help before the crisis happens; it will offer supplementary help and be a better way to save more lives than it would be to help afterwards.