The population of some countries can be way below 2.5 million...and this is just the number of people who were displaced by Cyclone Nargis.
They still need aid - What are we doing about it?
From the Myanmar Times:
MYANMAR hosted a meeting last week to update potential donors on the funding requirements for ongoing relief and recovery efforts in areas of the Ayeyarwady delta affected by cyclone Nargis in May.
Senior government officials, aid experts and representatives of donor countries met in Yangon on Wednesday, amid reports by the United Nations of continuing shortfalls in funding to support livelihoods for 2.4 million cyclone victims.
The High-level Roundtable on Post Nargis Relief and Recovery Efforts in Myanmar, as the meeting was officially called, was the second of its kind organised by the Tripartite Core Group (TCG), which is overseeing the relief efforts.
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