First step to future system
We should build a sustainable disaster relief system and the reclaiming of tents is just a beginning, says an article in Wuhan Evening Post. The following is an excerpt:
The Civil Affairs Bureau of Sichuan Province recently issued an urgent notice on how to improve the work of receiving, managing and reclaiming anti-quake tents. All the distributed tents for quake victims cannot be disposed of by individuals after the use. Instead, they should be collected by the civil affairs departments.
After the makeshift houses are completed and able to host quake victims, tents will not be used. It is time for us to think of how to dispose of these tents. Tents can be used for many times and they can be used again and again in other disaster-hit areas in the future. So it is necessary to reclaim these tents used in the Wenchuan quake.