Convoy of Hope Responds to Myanmar Survivors
Additional Convoy of Hope disaster relief personnel are departing for Myanmar to respond to a cyclone that ravaged parts of the country. An assessment team just returned from the region and reported massive destruction and widespread human need.
When residents emerged from their shelters after the twelve-hour storm, they found roads were completely washed away or obstructed by large debris. Most areas remain without electricity, clean water and phone service. The damage is of tsunami proportions with unconfirmed estimates of 20,000-50,000 people dead, another 40,000 unaccounted for, and 3 million people remaining homeless.
With the worldwide food crisis, food conditions in Myanmar were already strained. Kenton Moody, international director, said Convoy of Hope will continue to monitor conditions to determine when large quantities of food and supplies can be shipped and delivered in country. There is an immediate need for cash, he said, in order to provide victims with life’s essential needs food, clean water and shelter that will be purchased from neighboring areas.
“Convoy of Hope is about helping people and we want to be sensitive to the people and their culture,” Moody says. “We want to do whatever we can to help relieve the immediate suffering of survivors with what will be a long-term recovery.”
“The needs today and two weeks from today are far different,” Moody says. “With a limited amount of food and hygiene, people are hungry today, but in two weeks it could be a matter of starvation and rampant disease.”
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Damaged Hope Orphanage Home in Myanmar
