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Cyclone Nargis: Disaster Response in Myanmar

By admin • Jun 17th, 2009 • Category: Disaster Response, Health, Material Aid, Program Area, Projects, Region, Southeast Asia, Women And Children

On May 3, 2008 Cyclone Nargis, a category 4 cyclone, hit the Irrawaddy delta region of Myanmar. Operation USA worked to provide medical supplies for populations not being reached by other humanitarian aid.


NEWS RELEASE: Operation USA Appeals For Funds To Aid In Burmese Cyclone Disaster

By admin • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Disaster Response, News, Press Releases, Southeast Asia

LOS ANGELES (May 8, 2008)–Los Angeles based Operation USA has deployed staff already stationed in Asia to assess the needs of what is now an estimated 7 million people affected by the recent cyclone which destroyed or devastated wide swaths of Burma (aka Myanmar), especially in or near Yangon (formerly the capital Rangoon) and throughout [...]


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