Despite the dramatic shortfall in aid, the government has assured the international community that it will do its best to fill the enormous aid gap left by MSF and the recently evacuated organizations.
Another man described living in Guatemala and seeing babies dropped off at the bomberos (ambulance and first aid workers), left by one mother and taken in by another.
She was one of thousands of volunteers in Europe who mobilized in small groups to help them, filling the gaps in aid that were left by overwhelmed governments and large NGOs.
UKIP would save money by cutting foreign aid, leaving the EU, scrapping the HS2 rail "vanity project", and making changes to Scottish funding, said the party's economic spokesman.
Others state that attacks against aid agencies are a result of the blurring of lines between Western security (or political) interests and humanitarian or development aid, leaving aid workers more vulnerable to attacks by those opposing these Western interests (Collinson and Duffield 2013; Duffield 2010; Egeland et al. 2011).
Hard-line groups in Pakistan have tried to assert their influence amid the chaos created by the floods, with the Taliban urging people to reject aid from the United States, and Islamic groups stepping in to provide aid in the breach left by the government's faltering response.
Otherwise, groups like al-Qaida will fill the vacuum left by big aid organisations.
"This survey raises grave concerns about the creation of 'advice deserts' and vulnerable people unable to get the advice they desperately need". The survey reported that some centres were beginning to charge for advice to fill the funding gap left by legal aid cuts – a radical change in culture for the sector.
Mr Zoellick will have to convince donors that the bank's best work is often its least showy, filling in the gaps left by other aid-givers keen to boast about their own generosity.Spending the money will place new demands on him.
The first of the 10 recommendations is providing support for women's legal organisations, which often step into the gaps left by inadequate legal aid systems.
