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Myanmar Cyclone Emergency - How your school can help by Matt Lent

last modified 21 May 2008 at 02:29PM

Children inside a Buddhist monastery that has offered asylum
to Cyclone affected people in Khunk Than village.

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More than two weeks have passed since Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian agency, has now dispatched enough food to feed over 250,000 people in the affected areas, but the organisation estimates that over 750,000 people in Myanmar are in urgent need of food.

WFP has put together an 'Action Pack for Schools' who wish to raise money for the organisation's emergency operations in Myanmar, with materials and fundraising information.

You can download the pack and the supporting materials by going to the Food Force website

Local volunteer at a warehouse before
WFP food distribution in the outskirts of Yangon

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Photos credit: WFP/Eddie Gerald

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