Simon Pluess Quotations

The protection of refugees in some parts of the world, especially in Latin America, is critically undermined by the lack of sufficient international visibility and financial support.

Many people have lost all their food stocks and stoves in the quake ... and they need ready-to-eat food.

We are trying to set up 30 helicopters to run 24 hours for the next couple of months for $100 million, and right now we can only run one giant MI26 and eight smaller helicopters, ... We just don't have the money.

The window of opportunity to help is very short.

The WFP has nothing in its pipeline that would allow us to feed this refugee population beyond the end of this month.