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Also Try Solar Cooking and Water Distillation Clean Village Water News -05-10-08 Is It Time to Invade Burma with Aid? (Time.com) "With as many as 1 million people still at risk, it is conceivable that the death toll will, within days, approach that of the entire number of civilians killed in the genocide in Darfur." "The cold truth is that states rarely undertake military action unless their national interests are at stake; and the world has yet to reach a consensus about when, and under what circumstances, coercive interventions in the name of averting humanitarian disasters are permissible. As the response to the 2004 tsunami proved, the world's capacity for mercy is limitless. But we still haven't figured out when to give war a chance." 05-08 -05-07-08 Diplomat: 100,000 May Have Died in Myunmar (CBS News) "Bodies floated in flood waters and survivors tried to reach dry ground on boats using blankets as sails, while the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar said Wednesday that up to 100,000 people may have died in the devastating cyclone." 05-08 -05-07-08 Myunmar Denies Visas to Volunteers (USA Today) "Hungry crowds of cyclone survivors stormed a few shops that opened in Burma's devastated Irrawaddy delta Wednesday, as the military-ruled country's visa restrictions hampered international aid efforts." "Little relief reached the people in the worst-hit western region, even as corpses drifted in salty flood waters after the weekend disaster that killed more than 22,000 people and left an estimated 1 million homeless." 05-08 -05-08-08 Estimated Total Flood Area in Myanmar (UNOSAT) Provides a map showing flood area. 05-08 Projects Helping the People of Myanmar (International Medical Corps) "LA TIMES recommends IMC to those seeking to donate to cyclone relief efforts." 05-08 Helping the People of Myanmar (UNICEF) "UNICEF safe-water supplies for cyclone-affected families arrive in Yangon." 05-08 Helping the People of Myanmar (World Food Programme) "WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. Operations aim to:" "Save lives in refugee crises and other emergencies" "Improve nutrition and quality of life of world's most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives" "Enable development by (a) helping people build assets that benefit them directly; (b) promoting the self-reliance of poor people and communities." 05-08

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