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Canadian Save the Children worker reports success helping people in Myanmar |
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Written by THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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YANGON, Myanmar - A Canadian aid worker in Myanmar is reporting some success in getting aid to storm-ravaged people in that southeast Asian country, but Andrew Kirkwood adds that private business within the country is pitching in too.
The Canadian director for Save the Children in Myanmar says it is an under-reported story that private enterprise in Myanmar is offering tonnes of aid material, including clothing and plastic sheeting.
He says he's impressed with how much local business is helping out.
He tells how even wholesalers are selling rice to his organization at the same price it was at before the cyclone hit.
As for the efforts of his own organization, Kirkwood said in a conference call from the capital Yangon that Save the Children has distributed two planeloads of supplies, including one entire jumbo jet.
He says they have made contact with 100-thousand people in greater Yangon alone.
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