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Disaster Emergency Committee
Foundation Burma
Google Cyclone Donation
Medecins Sans Fronteriers
Myanmar appeal raises £4 million
More than £4 million has been raised in the first 48 hours of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Appeal.
As the severity of the Myanmar cyclone became clear, the British Red Cross joined other leading charities on 8 May to fundraise jointly under the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) umbrella.
More than 22,000 people are now confirmed dead and at least 40,000 missing, with more than a million displaced.
Speaking about the increasingly complex situation in Myanmar, Brendan Gormley, chief executive at the DEC said: “Aid is getting through via our agencies and so we are calling on people to donate to our DEC Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Appeal.
"Our priority is to deliver aid to those who need it the most and we can do that through our local teams already working on the ground.”
World Vision, the Red Cross and Save the Children are among the charities who have a long-term presence in Myanmar and their teams have responded since the cyclone struck on Saturday. They are already distributing clean drinking water, hygiene kits and emergency relief supplies and aim to scale this up in the days to come
Read more (Red Cross)
More than £4 million has been raised in the first 48 hours of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Appeal.
As the severity of the Myanmar cyclone became clear, the British Red Cross joined other leading charities on 8 May to fundraise jointly under the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) umbrella.
More than 22,000 people are now confirmed dead and at least 40,000 missing, with more than a million displaced.
Speaking about the increasingly complex situation in Myanmar, Brendan Gormley, chief executive at the DEC said: “Aid is getting through via our agencies and so we are calling on people to donate to our DEC Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Appeal.
"Our priority is to deliver aid to those who need it the most and we can do that through our local teams already working on the ground.”
World Vision, the Red Cross and Save the Children are among the charities who have a long-term presence in Myanmar and their teams have responded since the cyclone struck on Saturday. They are already distributing clean drinking water, hygiene kits and emergency relief supplies and aim to scale this up in the days to come
Read more (Red Cross)
May 4, 2008
Hundreds killed by Burma cyclone
A tropical cyclone has killed at least 351 people in Burma and damaged thousands of buildings, according to state television.
Parts of the Irrawaddy region were hit particularly badly, with three out of four buildings reportedly blown down in one district.
Burma has declared Irrawaddy and four other regions, including the main city Rangoon, to be disaster areas.
Rangoon has been without power and water, its streets full of debris.
Winds of about 190km/h (120mph) battered the Irrawaddy, Rangoon, Bago, Karen and Mon regions.
The latest death toll of 351 includes at least 109 people who lived on Haing-gyi island, off the south-west coast, officials say.
About 20,000 homes have been destroyed and 90,000 people made homeless on the island alone, a government official said.
The death toll is expected to rise further, as the situation in remote areas becomes clear.
Military and police personnel have been carrying out rescue operations.
In Irrawaddy's Labutta township, 75% of buildings collapsed and 20% had their roofs ripped off, state TV said.
Read more (BBC News)
Hundreds killed by Burma cyclone
A tropical cyclone has killed at least 351 people in Burma and damaged thousands of buildings, according to state television.
Parts of the Irrawaddy region were hit particularly badly, with three out of four buildings reportedly blown down in one district.
Burma has declared Irrawaddy and four other regions, including the main city Rangoon, to be disaster areas.
Rangoon has been without power and water, its streets full of debris.
Winds of about 190km/h (120mph) battered the Irrawaddy, Rangoon, Bago, Karen and Mon regions.
The latest death toll of 351 includes at least 109 people who lived on Haing-gyi island, off the south-west coast, officials say.
About 20,000 homes have been destroyed and 90,000 people made homeless on the island alone, a government official said.
The death toll is expected to rise further, as the situation in remote areas becomes clear.
Military and police personnel have been carrying out rescue operations.
In Irrawaddy's Labutta township, 75% of buildings collapsed and 20% had their roofs ripped off, state TV said.
Read more (BBC News)
May 6, 2008
Up to 10,000 feared dead in Burma cyclone
Burma’s isolated and xenophobic generals appealed for international help yesterday after a catastrophic cyclone killed at least 10,000 people and made hundreds of thousands homeless in the country’s agricultural heartland.
United Nations agencies were preparing last night to fly in emergency food, shelter and medical supplies to prevent epidemics and starvation inflicting a second disaster on the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which ripped across Burma on Saturday at 120mph (193km/h), destroying buildings and fields, toppling trees and washing away roads in the city of Rangoon and the Irrawaddy delta.
Despite a long-standing suspicion of foreign aid agencies, the Burmese Foreign Minister indicated that his Government would accept aid.
“According to the latest information, more than 10,000 people were killed,” Nyan Win said, after meeting foreign diplomats. “We will welcome help from other countries because our people are in difficulty.”
Read more (Times online)
Up to 10,000 feared dead in Burma cyclone
Burma’s isolated and xenophobic generals appealed for international help yesterday after a catastrophic cyclone killed at least 10,000 people and made hundreds of thousands homeless in the country’s agricultural heartland.
United Nations agencies were preparing last night to fly in emergency food, shelter and medical supplies to prevent epidemics and starvation inflicting a second disaster on the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which ripped across Burma on Saturday at 120mph (193km/h), destroying buildings and fields, toppling trees and washing away roads in the city of Rangoon and the Irrawaddy delta.
Despite a long-standing suspicion of foreign aid agencies, the Burmese Foreign Minister indicated that his Government would accept aid.
“According to the latest information, more than 10,000 people were killed,” Nyan Win said, after meeting foreign diplomats. “We will welcome help from other countries because our people are in difficulty.”
Read more (Times online)
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