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...Myanmar also relented, for some areas, after six days of negotiating to allow Tzu Chi in to help people left hungry after Cyclone Nargis in May 2008. As well as emergency food aid the group provided fertiliser and seed to get fresh crops planted. Tzu Chi...
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...most of humanitarian partners are transiting to full recovery programming mode. Clusters are finalising the inputs to the "Post Nargis Recovery and Preparedness Plan" (PONREPP) which covers the long term recovery post Flashed Appeal (2009-2011)....
...Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Myanmar and the United Nations (U.N.) opened here Wednesday to review the post-Nargis relief and recovery efforts in the country.     The two-day roundtable at the Chatrium Hotel was attended by Myanmar Deputy...
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...Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar on 2-3 May 2008, affecting some 2.4 million people living in Ayeyarwady and Yangon Divisions. Almost 140,000 people were killed or remain missing, according to the official figures. Six months on, the revised Appeal, covering...
...industries. Of the 900,000 people who received food from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) in the days and weeks following Nargis, about 770,000 are still being supplied with food aid. I think the storm, as tragic as it was, at least demonstrated to...
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