Burma’s Recovery Can Gain from Recent Lessons in Disaster Relief : Philanthropy Action

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Burma’s Recovery Can Gain from Recent Lessons in Disaster Relief : Philanthropy Action: "Burma’s Recovery Can Gain from Recent Lessons in Disaster Relief

by Laura Starita

Earlier this week a category three cyclone hit Burma at the low-lying Irrawaddy Delta, the South Asian country’s rice producing region, killing an estimated 100,000 people and displacing many more. Events such as these echo back to other recent devastating disasters, such as the South Asian tsunami of 2004, or Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Given the obvious opportunities for comparison, it is difficult not to think as well about the news stories reported at the time of those events on failed relief efforts: the violence that ravaged New Orleans; the images of bottled water and canned food piled up in ports with no efficient process for their dispatch."