Latest News: Save the Children reaches 160,000 cyclone survivors with aid
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May 20, 2008, 3:16 am
Filed under: Death Toll and missing, International Response, Latest News, Uncategorized | Tags: cyclone nargis, irrawaddy delta, Karen State, Mon State, oral-rehydration, Pegu Division, reliefweb, save the children alliance, united nations, Yangon Division
Filed under: Death Toll and missing, International Response, Latest News, Uncategorized | Tags: cyclone nargis, irrawaddy delta, Karen State, Mon State, oral-rehydration, Pegu Division, reliefweb, save the children alliance, united nations, Yangon Division
According to a recent press release by Save the Children Alliance on ReliefWeb, the organization has reached 160,632 people including more than 50,000 children with food, water, shelter materials, household supplies and oral-rehydration salts to treat diarrhea.
Other highlights from the release include:
- The death toll from Cyclone Nargis continues to rise. Unofficial estimates from the United Nations suggest that as many as 102,000 people have died, and up to 1.9 million people have been affected.
- Authorities have declared five regions — with an estimated total population of 24 million — to be in a state of emergency, including Yangon Division, Pegu Division, Mon State, Karen State and the Irrawaddy Division.
- Humanitarian agencies are expressing concern about an impending hungry season, as the rice planting thatI normally begins in June may be hampered by lack of tools and supplies, as well as by land made less arable by an influx of salt water from the storm surge.
- Even before the disaster, an estimated 30 percent of children in the region suffered from chronic malnutrition, according to health experts.
- Throughout Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta region, many villages have been devastated, with thousands of homes destroyed, and more than 3,000 schools damaged.
- Much of the delta is reachable only by boat, even in normal times, but many boats were destroyed in the storm — limiting the ability of storm survivors to find food, water and medical assistance.
Read the full press release here.
–Divya
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Burma Cyclone 
The mainly Burman and Rakhine led military considers ordinary Burmese people only as the subject people/ tenants. If it is about the ethnic members the treatment could be even worse. They wouldn’t care human suffering. The military rulers possess these mental make up from their much charished symbols; the medieval kings who controlled Burma through committing notorious genocides.
Comment by Abid Bahar May 25, 2008 @ 4:22 amOne of such kings was Anuradtha, the man who became king by killing his own brother and killed a great number of Mon people and took their religion Buddhism for Burma. Anuradha was the founder of Theraveda Buddhism in Burma. All these factors make Burma’s case (with its military occupying power with the ancient king’s model for half a century,) most interesting and unfortunately complicated.