Burma needs your help with cyclone and food crisis

Once again, Burma is in the news, this time with a devastating cyclone killing unknown tens of thousands of people and leaving a million homeless. Estimates of the dead range from over 20,000 to 100,000. I recently saw a quote from World Vision estimating the death toll at 80,000. Whatever the number, it is sure to grow as aid is just starting to come.

Solid information is hard to come by, but there are reports that some of the Baptist offices and facilities were badly damaged. While affecting people of many ethnic groups, much of the storm damaged area is populated by the Karen and we hear that whole villages have been wiped off the map.

Relief has been slow to come and since the storm came Saturday, the people have been left to fend largely for themselves. The government was being criticized for not sending troops in to help the people and for not allowing aid from foreign countries to enter. Aid is starting to come now, but the needs are huge. Food and water are scarce and people are already hungry. Building supplies are reported to be scarce as well so even those with money have little to buy.

Read the full story at www.internationalministries.org/read/5625