Source: CCTV.com

02-21-2009 17:02

Guest: Bekele Geleta, Secretary General, IFRC

Intro:

Hello, welcome to "Dialogue". Coming to you live from CCTV international. I'm your host Tian Wei. In the year 2008, 200 million people were affected by natural disasters worldwide. That is an increase of 40 percent over the previous years.

As a result, how to deal with the ever-increasing disaster relief challenges at the time when the relief donations have been dwindling as a result of the financial crisis? Today , I'm joined by Mr. Bekele Geleta, the Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

 

Editor:Zhang Yun