Myanmar sees major devastation
from Cyclone Nargis

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DEADLY CYCLONE
DEVASTATES MYANMAR

Cyclone Nargis traveled across the delta region of Myanmar late Friday night, May 2nd, with wind and extensive flooding, causing entire villages to disappear. The high winds downed power lines and ripped roofs off of buildings. The 10-hour storm battered the Irrawaddy Delta and Yangon with 120 mile an hour winds and 20 inches of rain, causing casualties in the tens of thousands, with thousands still missing. Several hundred thousand people are homeless and without food, water and/or power.

Although access to Myanmar is a major obstacle for US NGOs, Operation USA is responding to the devastation of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar with shelter, water purification and health care supplies after an assessment is completed by staff currently in the area.

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MYANMAR CYCLONE RELIEF

Operation USA has partnered with Von Dutch to present a 'Spirit of Brotherhood' t-shirt as part of an awareness and fundraising effort for the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. The t-shirts are available for purchase exclusively at http://www.vondutch.com, and at the Von Dutch stores in Los Angeles and New York for $39.  $29 from each t-shirt sold will directly fund Operation USA's disaster response program and provide urgently needed water purification, shelter and medical supplies.

A TSUNAMI OF HUNGER:
Food Riots Hit Haiti and Countries in
Africa and Asia

While the US is consumed with a $4 billion general election campaign, a slowly developing Tsunami of Hunger is rolling across a number of lands both near and far...

The New York Times recently ran a photo and story of a girl in Haiti rummaging through a garbage dump for scraps of food while another article devoted even more space to the trials and tribulations of organic food aficionados who are being hammered by the disparity in prices between organic and processed foods.

It is impossible to pin blame on any one cause for this situation but, applying my own 29 years’ field experience, here’s what I believe is happening: To continue reading, please click here.

Photo: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz
courtesy of Alertnet.org

VIDEO: To view personal and moving accounts of survival and the progress and impact of Operation USA-supported programs working with hundreds of children affected by Hurricane Katrina, please click here.

PRESS RELEASE:
"Operation USA Receives Two Grants From The Lincy Foundation Totalling $1.5 Million"