UNIVERSITY COALITIONS for GLOBAL HEALTH

Hi Folks-sorry for the lapse in blogs, life has been very busy with UCGH at the moment. Good news is our friend, Rachel Swanson from UNICEF offered to update us all on the situation in Myanmar. Thanks Rachel! (read below or check out Rachel’s blog)

The situation for children continues to worsen in Myanmar as thousands of children have been separated from their families, many more are living in desperate conditions in relief camps, and some are drinking water from ponds covered with dead bodies.

Below, a man collects wood near the carcass of a cow killed by the cyclone, some 50 kilometres south-west of the township of Kunyangon. As bodies decompose, the water supply is further contaminated.

Here, a woman breastfeeds her infant in the temporary shelter of a monastery near the village of Pyanpon in the southern Irrawaddy Division. Behind them, another woman and child share the same bed. They have all been displaced by the cyclone.

UNICEF has distributed pre-positioned supplies to hard-hit areas. Below, a man secures a UNICEF aid package to the back of his bicycle, with the help of his two sons, in the cyclone-affected township of Kunyangon in the southern Yangon Division.

More to follow.

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Posted by Alisa Aydin, UNICEF USA on May 12, 2008 7:44 AM
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