While no one today could have had the power to prevent the earthquake from happening, we do have the power to stop the next wave: the deaths and despair caused by freezing temperatures and disease, by lack of shelter, food and water,
a serious lack of cohesion within the mission as well as a number of other shortcomings.
The lack of major gains here... would be a severe disappointment for poor people around the world yearning to lift themselves out of poverty.