Burma relief continues

A mother and child from the Irrawaddy delta region of Burma, made homeless by the cyclone. Credit: IRIN

The MBC Women’s Department, which is also engaged in relief work, informed the BWA Women’s Department that “there are many people who are homeless, as well as jobless,” and stated plans to begin vocational training in some of the hardest hit areas.

Several international Baptist organisations are working closely with MBC, including Hungarian Baptist Aid, to whom BMS sent a £10,000 relief grant, and Baptist World Aid, the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance.

In a report released this week, BWAid’s Rescue 24 workers inside Burma wrote that “there are huge unmet basic needs for the victims of the disaster”, which hit the west of the country on 2 May.

The report stated that “many families are living under makeshift shelter… made of clothes, branches of trees or even under debris”.

It added that “most of the water sources are completely destroyed or contaminated with human and animal carcasses. There is no proper facility for storing drinking water.”