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Help For Myanmar

May 19, 2008

A Time Magazine correspondent describes the situation in Myanmar as desperate. According to this reporter, the monks are helping the victims of the devastating cyclone, but more help is urgently needed. Local residents of Burma are working to try to ease some of the misery of its people. But according to a local relief agency:

The junta doesn’t want foreigners distributing aid in the delta, but neither does it feel comfortable with Burmese distributing it. “The government is scared that relief workers will get involved in politics,” says a co-founder of one Burmese relief group.

Since many of the survivors live near water, Burmese people are unable to reach these people because they do not have the necessary equipment.

Burma desperately needs more boats and helicopters from abroad. Not even the nation’s richest private donors - who include junta cronies like tycoon Tay Za, who was put on a U.S. sanctions list last year - have the means or expertise to meet even a fraction of the needs in far-flung delta areas.

Please consider making a donation to the American Red Cross.

Posted by Jason Rowsey | Filed Under Social Causes 

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