Local heroes step in for cyclone victims

                   
msn.com     May 16, 2008            

YANGON, Myanmar - Taxi drivers, factory owners, college students, teachers and other Yangon residents — many of whom lost their own homes — are among those organizing grueling trips into the Irrawaddy delta, the hardest-hit region. "They are true humanitarian heroes," said Bridget Gardner,... [read full story]                

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Philippine Catholic bishops launch fund drive for Myanmar

earthtimes.org     May 15, 2008          

Manila - Philippine Catholic bishops appealed on Thursday to people to donate money to help victims of a deadly cyclone that killed an estimated 100,000 people in Myanmar. Monsignor Roberto Canlas, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Manila, instructed ...                

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Local heroes step in to help cyclone victims

examiner.com     May 15, 2008          

» 25 mins ago: Local heroes step in to help cyclone victims « (AP Photo) Myanmar volunteers serve a free breakfast to children at a temple after the destructive Cyclone Nargis on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, May 12, 2008. From a shopkeeper offering free rice porridge to medical...                

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Local heroes step in to help cyclone victims

spiiderweb.blogspot.com     May 15, 2008          

Myanmar volunteers serve a free breakfast to children at a temple after the destructive Cyclone Nargis on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, May 12, 2008. AP photo. Does it always have to be the good with the bad? In an apparent attempt to maintain absolute control over Myanmar, the junta...                

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Local heroes step in to help cyclone victims

signonsandiego.com     May 16, 2008          

YANGON, Myanmar – From shopkeepers handing out free rice porridge to medical students caring for the sick, ordinary people in Myanmar are stepping in to help cyclone victims as the military regime severely restricts international aid. Taxi drivers, factory owners, college students, teachers and...                

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Children at risk in Myanmar's cyclone wake

mnnonline.org     May 16, 2008          

Myanmar (MNN) ― The death toll continues climbing in Myanmar in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. "1-million to 2-million people could be affected by this -- they could actually die because of disease, food shortage and water problems. Vision Beyond Borders has been working in Myanmar for 15 years...                

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Myanmar survivors wonder: 'Where do they want us to go?'

terradaily.com     May 16, 2008          

by Staff Writers Yangon (AFP) May 15, 2008 "Where do they want us to go? We have no house any more, and it is raining," says 30-year-old Gangamani, one of thousands of cyclone victims ordered to leave monasteries where they have been sheltering. Some 1,000 people, both Buddhists and ethnic Indian...                

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Myanmar moving cyclone survivors into camps: monks

terradaily.com     May 16, 2008          

by Staff Writers Yangon (AFP) May 15, 2008 Myanmar has moved tens of thousands of homeless cyclone survivors into government-run shelters, pushing them out of monasteries and schools, Buddhist monks from the disaster zone said Thursday. Around the main city of Yangon, people seeking shelter at...                

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Myanmar cyclone survivors become heroes

nwsource.com     May 16, 2008          

AP Volunteers serve breakfast to children at a temple on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Ordinary people are stepping up to help in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. Rice farms: Myanmar's military government has appealed for international help in getting Irrawaddy Delta rice farmers back to their...                

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Cyclone beggars line roads of Myanmar delta

alertnet.org     May 16, 2008          

KUNGYANGON, Myanmar, May 16 (Reuters) - Without clothes or shoes, the thousands of men, women and children made destitute by the cyclone could only stand in the mud and rain of the latest tropical downpour, their hands clasped together in supplication at the occasional passing aid vehicle. The...                

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No breakthroughs in Myanmar aid crisis: EU envoy

afp.com     May 16, 2008          

A man stands among wreckage of a rice mill YANGON (AFP) - The European Union's aid chief said Friday he had made no breakthroughs on a trip to Myanmar aimed at pushing the ruling generals to open up to foreign assistance, two weeks after the cyclone tragedy. "In a few days, if I have no concrete...                

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