Myanmar continues to struggle
MYANMAR - The cyclone ravaged Myanmar is still struggling to receive international aid.
U.S. Navy ships carrying relief supplies plan to leave the coast of Myanmar Thursday after military officials said the ruling Junta refused their repeated delivery attempts over the past three weeks.
Meanwhile, a Eugene couple remains in the the country with their relief organization Thirst-Aid.
Team members are bringing water filters and medicine into the hard hit delta region.
Destroyed homes, toppled trees and contaminated water are a common scene.
Myanmar is still recovering after cyclone Nargis whipped through the country early last May.
Men bathe on the street in makeshift showers, and children huddle in refugee camps as villages try to rebuild.
In an e-mail, Eugene resident Cathy Bradner writes, "The cyclone continues here as everyday whips up new offers of help and new challenges to overcome."
The storm hit a thirst-aid factory, damaging their supply of ceramic water filters, but the people of myanmar have rebuilt the factory, making filters as quickly as possible and setting them up in towns and refugee camps.
A team of Myanmar locals takes thirst-aid supplies deep into the delta region, where people must still wade through waist deep water to get aid.
Unfortunately, much international aid is failing to reach cyclone victims.
Curt Bradner writes the Myanmar government is intercepting goods, but he says internal aid is reaching the people who need it most.
Bradner writes "So long as we don't give up, there is hope for those cyclone victims still surviving."
U.S. Navy ships carrying relief supplies plan to leave the coast of Myanmar Thursday after military officials said the ruling Junta refused their repeated delivery attempts over the past three weeks.
Meanwhile, a Eugene couple remains in the the country with their relief organization Thirst-Aid.
Team members are bringing water filters and medicine into the hard hit delta region.
Destroyed homes, toppled trees and contaminated water are a common scene.
Myanmar is still recovering after cyclone Nargis whipped through the country early last May.
Men bathe on the street in makeshift showers, and children huddle in refugee camps as villages try to rebuild.
In an e-mail, Eugene resident Cathy Bradner writes, "The cyclone continues here as everyday whips up new offers of help and new challenges to overcome."
The storm hit a thirst-aid factory, damaging their supply of ceramic water filters, but the people of myanmar have rebuilt the factory, making filters as quickly as possible and setting them up in towns and refugee camps.
A team of Myanmar locals takes thirst-aid supplies deep into the delta region, where people must still wade through waist deep water to get aid.
Unfortunately, much international aid is failing to reach cyclone victims.
Curt Bradner writes the Myanmar government is intercepting goods, but he says internal aid is reaching the people who need it most.
Bradner writes "So long as we don't give up, there is hope for those cyclone victims still surviving."
