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JENKS - The deadly Cyclone Nargis left 200,000 dead and 2.5 million people homeless in Myanmar last May, but a native of the land now living in Jenks and local churches areable to help.
October 02, 2008Jenks Journal
International help was denied by the military government. A few assistance from the outside world have been chanelled through local organizations and churches, but not enough help was provided. Tens of thousands of people in the worst hit areas are barely alive today. The rice fields became dry grounds. Due to salty water brought by the tidal waves during the cyclone thousands of acres of rice field are not usable today. Dr. Chin Do Kham, president of Global Outreach & Community Development, Inc based in Jenks who is a native of Myanmar (Burma) recently came back from a one month mission trip where he was able to visit the worse hit areas and meet with those who suffered the most. He reported from his first-hand eye witness account that in many villages three or four families are living together in a 10' x 10' damaged bamboo houses, and urgently in need of help for shelter. With the donations of residents in Tulsa area, he and his team were able to build 120 houses last month. The goal of GOCD is to build "1000 Homes for 1000 Families." The cost of one bamboo house is $400. <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" height="250" width="250"> <param name="movie" value="http://bannerads.zwire.com/bannerads/cache/BANNER_79971170618111714.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="loop" value="true" /> <embed src="http://bannerads.zwire.com/bannerads/cache/BANNER_79971170618111714.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" loop="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="250" width="250"></embed> </object> <noscript></noscript>"We work in parnership with local
MYANMAR: Cyclone-displaced ponder relocation
September 05, 2008
LABUTTA, 5 September 2008 (IRIN) - The last of Myanmar's cyclone-displaced have expressed anxiety over a government plan to relocate them. Some 1,800 people live at the 3-mile and 5-mile camps – a reference to their distance from Labutta, the largest town at the southern tip of the Ayeyarwady Delta. Under the plan, camp residents will be resettled in the two villages of Pain Ne Taung and Min Kone, home to more than 500 families, where authorities are now busy erecting hundreds of bamboo shelters to accommodate them. But despite these efforts, camp residents are less than convinced. Many remain badly traumatised by the category four storm, which swept off the Bay of Bengal in May, leaving nearly 140,000 people dead or missing and affecting 2.4 million more. Others are landless or lost everything they had, leaving them particularly vulnerable. "I don't want to go," Mon Htay Win, 42, who has lived at the 3-mile camp for the past four months, told IRIN. "It's easier if I...
UNDP helps cyclone survivors in Myanmar to rebuild houses
August 17, 2008
YANGON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is helping cyclone survivors in Myanmar to rebuild their storm-ravaged houses in Laputta, one of the hard-hit townships in Ayeyaewaddy delta, a local weekly journal reported Sunday.
The UNDP is offering each survivor with 120,000 kyats (102 U.S. dollars) as maintenance cost to rebuild their houses which were lost in the storm, the Voice said, adding that so far 70 villages out of 489 destroyed in Laputta has been so provided.
According to the report, the UNDP has also supported each low-income workers in the 70 villages in Laputta with 70,000 Kyats (60U.S. dollars) to restart their work.
Meanwhile, the government's National Disaster Preparedness Central Committee has assigned a total of 30 private companies to undertake reconstruction work in 17 disaster-affected areas.
Myanmar has been reclaiming land plots...
Laputta’s Last Two Refugee Camps to Close
August 06, 2008
The two remaining cyclone refugee camps in Laputta are to close on August 10, according to residents.
The 1,015 families in the camps, named 5-Mile and 3-Mile, have been told to return to their villages in Laputta Township, which bore the brunt of the May 2-3 cyclone.
An army officer in the region told The Irrawaddy by telephone that no families were being forced to return. “They can return if they wish,” he said.
Forced relocation was suspended after Burmese Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein visited cyclone-hit areas in late July, but one Laputta resident said the local authorities had resumed “pushing” refugees to return to their villages.
“Some refugees don’t want to return their home villages because they can’t survive there without housing and jobs,” she said.
The authorities are promising to supply refugees with fishing and farming equipment if they return.
The UNICEF office in Laputta Township, meanwhile, has stopped issuing relief supplies in 5-Mile and 3-Mile...