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“I don’t like the name ‘institution’,”
said Amarylla Myatt, the senior administrator and founder
of Grace Home. “This is a home. This is a shelter
for them. Because they are homeless, they have nothing.”
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provided medical treatment to about 600
patients a day at the clinic, including
some surgical procedures, including hernia,
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of ‘Build Back Better’ would be an important form
of longer-term recovery activities,” said a UN statement
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save lives, government experts believe. Now they are planning
to change the language used in weather forecasts to make them
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Sri Lanka ambassador to Myanmar, Mr P A D Samarasekera,
handed over the supplies to Myanmar’s deputy minister
for social welfare relief and resettlement, Brigadier
General Kyaw Myint, at a ceremony at the Asia World
Port Terminal in Ahlone township on June 20. |
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donations for Myanmar cyclone victims by SMS. The three
biggest telephone companies in Turkey – Vodafone,
Avea and Turkcell – are providing free services
for our program by sending messages to at least 200,000
of their mobile phone users a day. |
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soon as we heard that the cyclone had hit Ayeyarwady
and Yangon divisions, our 60-member unit mobilised
to get to the area as quickly as possible,”
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‘Myanmar Business Executives’ is planning
to start a livelihood loan project for Nargis victims
later this month, said a businessman involved in the
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