We are distributing emergency food rations but we are also working out how we will meet the long-term needs of survivors. We estimate that 30,000 children were acutely malnourished before the cyclone struck in the delta. They also account for nearly half of the survivors.įor Save the Children, it is these youngest victims that have been the focus of our work and as in most emergencies they are the most vulnerable.Īt the same time aid workers are gathering detailed information about the needs of children. Save the Children says that children account forĪlmost half of Myanmar’s population are children and in the aftermath of Nargis, they make up some 40 per cent of the deaths. It is very challenging getting aid into the worst affected areas as they can only be reached by boat and the heavy monsoon rain makes working conditions for us and living conditions for the survivors difficult. Some international aid workers, including a health specialist and a logistician responsible for getting aid supplies into the affected areas, have been granted visas to work in the delta. We are scaling up the aid operation as more aid supplies are purchased in the country and more aid arrives from outside the country.Īt present we have 260 Burmese aid workers working in the delta.
The team has been delivering water, food, medicines, blankets and plastic sheeting to survivors. Another team of Burmese aid workers – the real unsung heroes of this disaster – are due to return from the delta tomorrow. Survivors in some villages described in detail how the awesome power of Nargis had sucked in people and communities and spat them out into the rising waters of the delta. He said entire villages along the delta were now empty of people. My colleague looked visibly moved describing the scenes of horror that he found. Save the Children’s relief teams are slowly getting aid into the eastern and western Irrawady Delta in southern Myanmar, the region worst hit by the cyclone.Ī few days ago a team of seven Burmese aid workers returned to Yangon after spending several days accessing remote villages by boat in the western delta with vital aid supplies.
My colleagues who have been responding to the humanitarian needs of the people since the cyclone hit on May 2 are beyond feeling exhausted – they are running on empty.īut the aid workers here are motivated by the immense need on the ground and this is at the forefront of our concerns every day. My eyes are stinging due to a lack of sleep and the debilitating effect of the persistent humidity.
I have been in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar, for two weeks but I have lost all track of time as the hours and days have become a hazy blur. The company was founded by Irfan Siddiqui on Januand is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan.Save the Children and other aid agencies are focusing on emergency assistance for children in remote areas in the Irrawady Delta in Myanmar The Others segment includes functions which cannot be classified in any of the above segments. The Trading and Sales segment includes equity, foreign exchanges, commodities, own securities and placements. The Retail Banking Segment consists of retail financing, deposits and banking services offered to its retail customers and small and medium enterprises. The Corporate and Commercial Banking segment includes project finance, export finance, trade finance, Ijarah, guarantees and bills of exchange relating to its Corporate and Commercial customers, investment banking, syndications, IPO related activities, secondary private placements, underwriting and securitization. It operates through following segments: Corporate and Commercial Banking, Retail Banking, Trading and Sales, and Others. is a bank holding company, which provides Islamic banking products and services.
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