Saturday, November 1, 2008

relief activities in disaster-hit area

Myanmar experienced an unprescended disaster last May. After the storm comes the breeze. The organizations fr all walks of life flocked to the disaster-hit area in the Ayeyarwaddy delta. They helps the local populace, worn out by the cyclone in every way they can. But what is lacking there is a strong constitution to harmonize the relief activities. The aids of multimillion kyats goes useless with the lack of technical expertise to tap it well in right time in the right place to the right people. For instance, an aid group came to a delta town with the ambition of raising the living std of the local people. The group had junior docs and barely experienced management personnel and did whatever they liked. They gave the medicines recklessly; they chlorinated the water sources without knowing much of the water quality there; they bred the beggers' spirit in the honest folksman in the rural area. But one must confess these aids played a crucial role in the post-disaster relief activities in the delta area.

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