Another early question was what a donor could include when it reported its aid efforts to the committee.

Government officials now say an aid effort will begin in 1992.

Other residents said they had already given up on official aid efforts.

But worse could happen if the aid efforts don't succeed.

Now a vast international aid effort was beginning to establish itself.

Officials say they are stepping up their aid efforts given the seriousness of the situation.

And certainly has not done well at organizing Western aid efforts.

A key goal of the aid effort is to keep people in their homes.

This, however, is not to say that we cannot point to early achievements in our aid effort.

It is also very important to talk more about how we should coordinate aid efforts.