ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how international aid agencies responded to the effects of the tsunami on people and discuss the issues. It highlights in light of an analysis of web-based reports provided by the United States Agency for International Aid. United Nations bodies such as the World Health Organisation and UNICEF; organisations like the Red Cross, Oxfam, CONCERN and many others engaged in the relief operations connected to this tsunami. Disasters such as terrorist acts, wars and civil disorders have an element of human intention or involve human negligence. Given the trenchant critiques of international aid, it is useful for me to give an example of good practice in this arena. International organisations and governments of developed countries rushed to the affected areas for immediate relief work and millions of dollars worth of relief materials were quickly flown in to the affected countries.
