Fed: Few understand how aid agencies work, says CARE

AAP General News (Australia)
01-15-2000
Fed: Few understand how aid agencies work, says CARE

CARE Australia says few people understand how humanitarian aid is delivered in the modern world.

Spokesman BRIAN DOOLAN says people - and sometimes governments - don't understand why
CARE's three jailed aid workers would have been carrying laptop computers rather than
lumping bags of rice.

He says this was the main lesson learned from the jailing of STEVE PRATT, PETER WALLACE
and BRANKO JELEN in …