Thursday, May 15, 2008

Corporations Lend Helping Hand to Myanmar, China

Corporations Lend Helping Hand to Myanmar, China: "Corporations Lend Helping Hand to Myanmar, China

By Aliah D. Wright, May 2008

Thousands of people dead or dying. Infrastructure obliterated. Homes and livelihoods lost to cataclysmic and unexpected destruction. Such are the results of lands laid waste by Tropical Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar May 3, 2008, and the earthquake that shattered southwestern China nine days later.

Yet the people of Myanmar and China are not without assistance, as humanitarian aid comes not just from groups charged with helping the afflicted but also from associations, corporations and thousands of employees worldwide—despite reports that some aid might"

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