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- 23 May 2008
UN chief says Myanmar agrees to allow 'all aid workers'
" Myanmar has agreed to allow "all aid workers" to stage a relief effort for cyclone survivors, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said after meeting junta leader Than Shwe here on Friday. "Source: ChannelNewAsia
- 17 May 2008
On 13 May 2008, we set off to Kun Chan Kone, one of the disaster areas, along with 50 volunteers. However, we learnt that there were other private aid groups heading to the same destination. Therefore we decided to change our destination to War Ba Lout Tot, a small village situated 22.4 miles from the outskirts of Yangon, Dala.
Due heavy downpour earlier and poor road conditions, we could not travel as fast as we could have. Along the way, we saw many badly damaged or destroyed homes. The road condition worsened as we are nearing the village. One of our small trucks could not continue with the journey, resulting in delays as we had to transfer the aids from the broken down truck to another. As we are moving the aids, we saw a group of cyclone refugees. They are make up mostly of children and women. We distributed some rice, bean and water to them.
Finally around 5pm we reached War Ba Lout Tout village. The sun was setting very quicky and light is fading over the horizon of flood paddy fields. We quickly move all the relief aids into to the half-destroyed monastery. With very limited shelter for our volunteers, most of the female volunteers decided to head back to Yangon. Only 7 remaining volunteers stayed behind to distribute the aids the next day.
Early next morning (14 May 2008), we travelled inside the village on foot to access the damages done by the Cyclone Nargis. At 8:30 am, we started to distribute to the refugees of cyclone. The long queue of starving survivors had started to form much earlier as the news of aids arriving had spread around the village. By 2pm, we had depleted all our reliefs. However, with kind donations we have collected so far, almost everyone in the village had received the boxes of food supplies.
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Ko Pout Mont (email)
- 16 May 2008
Burma's Non-Political Flood
Author: unknown via email
Water, water, all around me
But I am so..so.. thirsty.
Here, there, human bodies' everywhere
But none alive accompany me and share.
And I look at myself
Broken hopes and empty handed.
And I look further around
Just like a post heavy-battled ground.
Wild cyclone has wiped all things down.
Where are those kids from innocent playground?
Where are students in the green and white uniform?
Where is my town always singing along country rock songs?
Where are my mates who search for freedom and independent?
Where are those local chicks with new-leaf-color lips?
Where are those parents with a too busy habit?
All my questions disappear,
All my answers whisper...and whisperer.
Collaborated disaster of the nature and the dictator!
And I constantly hear voices from my empty stomach
Asking me food, forcing me speak out and stand up.
I silently speak with my loudest, to the entire world
Then mankind's sympathies come and knock my door.
Let me now open my door
'Cause those sympathies will help to fix my wounded floor.
Let me invite them with an open heart
'Cause those sympathies will help my life reconstruct.
Hello Mr. militarists,
Your guns are currently useless,
My demands are urgently needed,
Here, I'm alive, not a corpse yet,
Neither much time left.
Together, let's work out as a nice diplomat!
(Dedicated To My Mother And People Of Burma Who Lost Lives And Who Are Hardly Survived Under Both Natural And Political Weathers!)
Mothers' Day 2008
Zeya(email)
