Health, Education, Equality, Protection 健康、教育、平等、保護
ADVANCE HUMANITY 促進仁愛精神
Updates on
Myanmar Cyclone Nargis
UNICEF is Supporting the Government to
Respond to the Immediate Needs of Children and Women
This emergency is at a critical point. While assistance is reaching victims of the cyclone, it remains a fraction of what is needed. UNICEF and its partners need to scale up all resources, supplies, expert personnel and funding, to address the current needs on the ground. If this does not happen, disease and more deaths will turn this into an even bigger human disaster. There is absolutely no more time to lose.
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Latest updates on Myanmar Cyclone 2.5 million victims are affected severely by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, 1 out of 4 are children estimated by United Nations. Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF has received more than HKD$ 4.8 million donation for the victims. Missions were sent to 40 percent affected area and stated the sever situation might have been threatened lives of 1million children. If children are not taken care immediately after the incident, they are prone to be infected by diseases. UNICEF warns that children who survived the cyclone are now at increasing risk of diseases Physical emergency support from UNICEF UNICEF teams report that in the areas they have visited some 40 per cent of those severely affected are children. If the patterns UNICEF staff are seeing in the devastated areas are representative, there may be as many as one million children in need of urgent assistance. More than 70 UNICEF assessment and relief missions are in the regions, distributing essential survival kits, including plastic sheeting for shelter, water purification materials, medicines and mosquito nets, and cooking materials. A flight due to land tomorrow -- UNICEF’s fourth –will carry several tonnes of therapeutic food for malnourished children. Thirty-four trucks, small enough to travel safely over the damaged roads and bridges, have been dispatched throughout the Yangon and Irawaddy districts. UNICEF is working in close collaboration with the Myanmar Red Cross and other partners. Assessment and relief team has arrived and rushed some emergency supplies to the cyclone-affected communities – including water-purification tablets, oral rehydration salts to treat diarrhoeal dehydration, first-aid kits, essential drugs, tarpaulins for shelter and other basic living items. |
Long term and psychological support from UNICEF
UNICEF has also arranged radio broadcasts to help reunite separated children with their parents or close family members. Child-friendly spaces have been set up in several locations, where children can receive education, psychosocial support and health/nutrition services.
Child friendly spaces provide safe shelter to children. They can sing and draw to express their fear due to the disaster. Cyclone flattened schools and children can also treat as temporary school and enjoy basic education rights.
Update: 21 May 2008
About UNICEF in Myanmar
UNICEF is a well-established presence in Myanmar. It has worked in the country since 1950 and currently has a staff of 131 spread across nine zonal offices and a head office in Yangon.
UNICEF staff on the ground are already assisting those most in need.
It is anticipated that both staff levels and available
supplies will increase within days. Also please note that our nine field
offices are not all located in the affected areas. We have mobilised people
from other parts of the country to support the relief efforts.
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