HELP CHILDREN CA
IN FOCUS: MYANMAR (BURMA)
EMERGENCY, CYCLONE NARGIS 2008
UNICEF supplies, including education materials and a huge tent to act as a temporary
school, arrive via ox-drawn carts to the site of a school destroyed by the cyclone in
Laputta Township, Irrawaddy.
UNICEF’s rapid response provided basic needs for some of the 1.5 million survivors
displaced or affected by the cyclone.
Items shipped between May and August 2008 included:
• 825,000 sachets of therapeutic peanut paste
• Nearly 200,000 mosquito nets
• 2 million exercise books and 817 school-in-a-boxes
• 33 tonnes of medicines and medical supplies
• 120 large tents for temporary health centres and schools
Plus oral rehydration salts, therapeutic milk, vitamin tablets, water kits, tarpaulins, baby
blankets, water purification tablets, and much more.
UGHT IN EMERGENCIES
© UNICEF/HQ08-0610/Myo Thame
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