Canadian Red Cross aid worker returns from Myanmar... -
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Published on: 7/17/2008
Last Visited: 11/17/2008
(July 17, 2008 - OTTAWA) Canadian Red Cross aid worker Luc Dumoulin has recently returned from Myanmar after working with the Red Cross relief effort for over a month following Cyclone Nargis, which devastated large parts of the country on May 2.
Dumoulin provided logistics support for the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies operation.
Over 27,000 Myanmar Red Cross Society volunteers and staff, supported by over 30 disaster response experts from the International Federation, have provided relief to half a million survivors, eighty per cent in the worst-hit Ayeyarwady (Irrawady) Delta region.
"We've had roughly three flights of aid a week arriving in Myanmar since soon after the cyclone hit," says Dumoulin.
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"The generous contributions from Canadians and the Government of Canada have allowed life-saving supplies like shelter kits, hygiene kits, water purification tablets, blankets, mosquito nets to prevent malaria, and other items to reach to the Myanmar Red Cross for distribution to the most vulnerable," says Dumoulin.