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Mercy Corps Assists Hard-Hit Delta Residents ›

Topics: Emergencies

In Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta, Mercy Corps emergency responders are bringing relief and beginning recovery efforts throughout Laputta Township, where early evidence suggests that 80,000 of the 350,000 residents died in the storm.

Bringing Back Bo Kone ›

Mercy Corps is working to restore the rice harvest in a village where one of three households perished in the cyclone.

Q&A: Carol Ward in Myanmar ›

Topics: Emergencies

One of our top emergency responders gives her firsthand impressions of Myanmar's devastated Delta and lays out what she and her colleagues are doing to increase food security and fight malnutrition.

Myanmar Facts

  • Population: 47.8 million
  • Size: Slightly smaller than Texas
  • Human Development Index rank: 135 (of 179)
  • Mercy Corps has worked here since 2008
  • Primary work: Paying residents to clean up villages, replanting rice fields, restoring clean drinking water
  • Recent disaster: Cyclone Nargis, which swept across Myanmar in May 2008, was the worst cyclone to hit Asia since 1991; at least 138,000 dead or missing and $4 billion in damage

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