Aid to Nepal: Following the Money

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4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Aid is pouring in to Nepal in the wake of the recent earthquakes. But in a country where corruption is endemic, will the money go where it is meant to? Simon Cox investigates.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC Podcast.
0:02.3	You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use
0:04.9	at BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.
0:11.5	Hello, I'm Simon Cox and for this week's edition
0:14.0	of Assignment on BBC World Service,
0:16.0	I'm in Nepal, which has been devastated by earthquakes,
0:19.3	to find out what's going to happen
0:20.5	to the foreign aid flowing into this country.
0:23.8	When I first arrived in Kathmandu,
0:29.8	came in from the airport, the city looked pretty unscathed.
0:32.8	I've just come about 10 minutes out of the centre
0:35.8	and it's totally devastated here.
0:37.8	I'm just beside, well, what was at house is just now,
0:41.8	it's the pile of rubble, and actually,
0:43.8	I just walk past somewhere, there is definitely quite a rank smell.
0:49.8	There's a huge amount of damage here.
0:51.8	Yeah.
0:52.8	Were there people that were injured around here?
0:54.8	Oh, there's a lot of people that are killed by earthquake,
0:59.8	and a lot of people's injuries.
1:01.8	We're standing on a pile of rubble, which was a house.
1:05.8	Have they had much aid that's got to the area here?
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