Several storms in the course of two weeks left the northern part of Haiti flooded affecting several hundred thousands people.

The latest cyclone front to hit Haiti has brought heavy flashfloods and mudslides submerging large urban areas with a potentially devastating long-term impact. The full scale of the disaster is hard to estimate because of the isolation of the worst hit area, however according to official radio forecasts this is one of the biggest natural calamities to hit the country in decades. During Hurricane Jean in 2004 only in Gonaives 2,500 drowned in the first day of the disaster, and this time the water level has covered the entire city of half-a-million under 9 feet of water. Our partner organization, AMURT has launched a rapid response operation which will most likely last for weeks if not months. The relief team there has been giving us updated accounts of horrific human and animal suffering, death, and destruction. See AMURT videos in Haiti at www.youtube.com/amurtrelief.

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Inside Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis:
A 3 months overview

AMURT & AMURTEL Relief & Reconstruction Operations
July 30, 2008

1. Food and Non-Food Items Distribution
Location: Dedaye Township, Ayeyarwaddy Delta
No. of villages 24
No. of households 3,686
Total population 17,324
Tons of food distributed 110.5 t
Budget USD 160,500

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We have received the following good news from our partner organization, AMURT, who is working in Myanmar (Burma).
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G o o d N e w s R e p o r t

AMURT and AMURTEL Burma Response

Monday, 2 June 2008

Our MASS DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD ITEMS is in full swing. The food insecurity in the Delta is continuing. In spite of regular deliveries by some organizations along the main roads, there are innumerable pockets of villages that are so remote that they never received any aid.

For food distribution, AMURT operates as a wellwisher (donor) through local individuals and community groups that we know and trust. We purchase the food items (rice, pulses, cooking oil, molasse and salt) in bulk quantities which are then rationed into family-size bags.

These food packages are then passed on to our trusted local friends who do the distribution. Foreigners are still not allowed to go to the cyclone-hit delta areas.

Myanmar (Burma) was hit hard by cyclone Nargis on May 3. It is the worst natural disaster in East Asia since the tsunami of 2004. Most of the 25,000 known deaths occurred in the southern Irrawaddy river delta region. Unofficial estimates put the deaths at 100.000+.

Officials say the majority of people were killed by a tidal surge 12 ft (3.5m) high. Towns in the Irrawaddy delta are still completely flooded and approximately 1,5 million people have been made homeless. The old capital Rangoon is without electricity and has received enormous damage to is infrastructure.

Our partner organization, AMURT, has volunteer teams on the ground and are sending in overseas experts and coordinators. Distribution of food and medicine is AMURT's immediate priority. AMURT's tried and tested system of making assessment on a family by family basis effectively identifies the most vulnerable sectors of the society. We need your help to deliver relief to the hundreds of thousands of Burmese affected by this catastrophe.

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