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ETA Star donates rice grains for the homeless in cyclone-hit Myanmar
August 27, 2008AME Info: Ultimate Business Resource
ETA Star Properties, a leading property developer in the UAE, donated 5000kgs of rice grains for the benefit of people affected by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.
The donation is being made through the World Concern Nargis Relief Team the world's largest international food assistance organization. Cyclone Nargis caused the caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar. The tempest took over 130,000 lives and has left more than 2 million people in need of humanitarian aid, contaminating water sources, obliterating schools and the Myanmar children are suffering from acute malnutrition. The wreckage caused by Cyclone Nargis in May 2008 is still apparent even after three months in many parts of Myanmar, with flooded farmland and considerably damaged infrastructure. Mr. Abid Junaid, Executive Director, ETA Star, said: 'The scale of the tragedy caused by Cyclone Nargis is hard to fathom. The rehabilitation process is on and it would take months or years for it to come back to normalcy. Myanmar has been one of the major producers of rice in the world but today the staple diet of its people is hardly available for them. As a part of our CSR program for the homeless, we decided to partner with the World Concern to deliver rice grains to the cyclone-hit regions of the country. We hope our efforts will bring some relief amongst the needy in Myanmar.'
1,300kg rice donated to cyclone-hit
August 13, 2008
MORE than 1,300 kilograms of rice has been donated to the UN World Food Programme (UNWFP) Myanmar Appeal by office workers in Bahrain.
It was handed over by O2 Marketing Communications, which encouraged staff at branches in Bahrain and Dubai to contribute to the appeal by donating money.
The total donation from both branches was 92 sacks of rice, weighing 2,321kg.
"We live in a world where the forces of nature displace far too many innocent people each year, with two major natural disasters occurring in May, the cyclone in Myanmar and the earthquake in China, and thousands of men, women and children are in dire need of food aid," said O2 managing director Mohammad Johmani.
"We felt compelled as a company to do whatever we could to help the survivors of the cyclone.
"We are delighted with the amount of money we were able to raise and pleased with the feedback we have had from our employees in Bahrain and Dubai."
Funding, food and the future: Fears for Burma's children three months after Cyclone Nargis
August 04, 2008It has been three months since Cyclone Nargis ripped through Burma leaving 138,000 dead or missing, 800,000 homeless and affecting 2.4 million people. Drawing on its experience of running the biggest international aid agency response in the country, Save the Children outlines the three key issues facing Burmese children.
Food Fears
Families’ food stocks are running out. In a recent assessment 55 per cent of families surveyed in 291 villages in the delta said they currently had less than one day of food left and had no stocks to fall back on.
The window of opportunity for planting crops has now closed. It’s too late to give seeds to farmers as the monsoon rains and the planting season are over. Farmers had less seed than they needed, and in some areas possibly only 50% of the rice paddy has been planted. Many farmers may have to wait until November 2009 for their next decent harvest and will struggle to find enough food to feed their children, causing malnutrition rates to rise. We...
Burma three months on: Food shortages and earning a living biggest challenge for cyclone-affected families
August 04, 2008Burmese children and their families are still in need of international assistance to help rebuild their lives, three months after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country.
Save the Children, the biggest international aid agency responding in Burma, has already reached over half a million people, including 225,000 children, but says that much more needs to be done.
The international aid agency said that children are at risk of going hungry as parents struggle to make a living to afford to feed their families. The cyclone devastated the agriculture and fishing industry in the delta as paddy fields were flooded and boats and fishing equipment were destroyed. Rice and fish not only make up the staple diet of people living in the affected areas, they are also responsible for most people’s livelihoods.
Guy Cave, Director of Programmes for Save the Children in Myanmar, said: ‘A great deal has been achieved in the last three months, but there is still so much more work to do. The scale of...