Inside Burma - Part 3

A recent email from S-

"The stories currently floating around, range from tragic to almost unbelievable. Not long ago masses of high nutrition biscuits were donated for distribution to those in need, ultimately they ended up being rationed to a particular uniformed group...given without instruction, many were hospitalized from consuming too many. (As the story goes) Another story is one of a small extremely rural village that only recently had a school built. For the first time ever two young students studied and took a medical exam to begin nursing school. To the surprise and pride of the village both passed. They would have been the village's first graduates- had the two survived the Nargis...So here, over a cup of sweet burmese tea I find comedy and tragedy both.

Those working on the relief effort have stories too, although quite a bit more technical and numerical. It seems that as a few days ago some 50,000 people have run out of food. Hopefully through cooperation relief will be provided until the next harvest, but it will be an effort. Some of the outlying island areas have towns that have lost seventy percent of their population, with only a few children remaining. But slowly, help seems to be reaching those sort of people. All and all, its pretty hard to tell, but I can attest that there are many dedicated people doing the best they can."