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Monday, 26 April 2010 |
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FYI:
BANGKOK,
21 April 2010 (IRIN) - The European Commission's Humanitarian Aid
department (ECHO) is to conclude its activities in Myanmar's
cyclone-affected Ayeyarwady Delta at the end of May.
“The decision to wind down ECHO assistance to those affected by Cyclone
Nargis was taken during the second half of 2009, as we assessed that
the level of acute humanitarian needs had decreased significantly in
the course of last year,” Christophe Reltien, ECHO’s head of office in
Myanmar, told IRIN from Yangon.
“What is needed now is longer-term development assistance,” he said.
The last Nargis project funded by ECHO will officially end on 31 May 2010.
More than 138,000 people lost their lives when the cyclone slammed into
Myanmar’s southern Ayeyarwady delta on 2 and 3 May 2008, affecting 2.4
million people and leaving nearly half of them in need of assistance.
ECHO's mandate is to provide emergency assistance and relief to the victims of natural disasters or armed conflict.
“Overall, after 24 months of tremendous efforts by our partners and
other organizations, the humanitarian situation can be categorized as
satisfactory,” Reltien said.
However, challenges remain, he said, citing the re-establishment of
livelihoods so that communities can again become self-sustaining.
“These needs have to be addressed in the medium- to long-term,” the ECHO official said.
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
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Hardships and income fall due to Nargis cyclone last year,
farmers have not been success in their rice growing in last 2 seasons, some of
farm workers’ families have got a question whether to send their kids school or
let them work in nearby towns for income. Learning from this, we have two
urgencies regarding our once relief projected village, Too Myaung; one to help
kids back to school in time with our support and number two, to help some fund
raise for farmers or technical support.
One of two agendas has been successful. We galloped back to
Too Myaung last week and support “school uniforms,” “clothing,” “academic
materials such as
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 |
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It was quite a surprise reaching back to our once relief aided village, Too Myaung village has its visual progress. Yet we see all the way down to Delta from Yangon; de javu tarpaulin wrapped huts partly revealing “UN” sub branches logos, some of USAID.
Surprise is 10 minutes before Pyapon River Bridge there is a palm-bridge making over the little cannel irrigated to the endless rice field; it leads to a muddy path our Too-Myaung village. It’s about 20 minutes walk way from the main road. This short cut we never thought before. These villagers prove they live with thriving plan!
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Wednesday, 06 May 2009 |
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was a cool and pleasant evening back to October 23rd 2008, when Brunnen /
Switzerland couple, Mr. Urs
and Anita Gyr back from their trip of the Northern Myanmar, Kachain
sate along with lake Inle -Phaung Daw Oo festival in Shan and Mandalay;
we invited and arranged dinner at Sabai Sabai Restaurant in Yangon to present the certificate of appreciation. It was presented personally by Henry Nyan Htun and his wife May Thant Sin of this PHI-AID program.
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
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Dear friends and donors,
Time flies. We can't still believe that it is now 4 months and a half after the catastrophe of post cyclone Nargis in May 2 and 3 broke out in Myanmar. We were so thrilled, frightened and challenged to conceive by this awful unprocedent in life.
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