Myanmar after Nargis: On the road to recovery
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Day I: It is our second day in Mawgyun and the Education Program Manager and I plan to go to the villages in the southernmost tip of the township. It is the hardest hit region in the township and, in the last week, we have been delivering food, hygiene kits and tarpaulin to villages there. We plan to go and discuss with community members about how we can assist them to restart educational activities. We reached a village, clearly devastated by the cyclone, after a two-and-a-half-hour boat ride. It looked less like a village and more like a temporary settlement with debris of rotting trees and branches scattered all around, little eyes peep out of the rows of huts covered in many coloured tarpaulin sheets as we navigate through the mud and slush towards the village leader's hut. There is distribution of food going on and we are....
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