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> Hey all....
> Update from Burma
> Things are normalizing in the city of Yangon . The streets are cleared
> and food and water does not seem to be scarce yet - though prices are
> very high.
>
> What is happening down south, where the worst damage occurred, is
> harder to assess.
> The NGOs and the govt. here are playing a PR game and it seems a mess.
>
> Anyway, many people have written me and asked what they could do. Who
> could they donate to? No easy answer. The NGOs and UN are limited in
> what they can actually get done here.
>
> Here is the best I can offer - we've canceled our school year and many
> of us are sitting around trying to get packed and get out. The other
> day we collected over $700 in about an hour. We then commandeered our
> school bus and went and bought large bags of rice - nearly 3 tons -
> the bus was loaded to the windows with enough rice to make a ski hill.
> We have since loaded it on a southbound boat heading down where it
> is needed. Local expats are trying to go down with it as far as they
> can. But Yangonian friends are going down too to help assure the rice
> gets where it needs to.
>
> I am leaving here for good soon. Instead of taking all my cash out of
> here with me. I would like to leave much of my cash savings here -
> where it can go toward more food runs like this.