"I found it hard to hang on, as my hands were full," said farmer Ko Zaw Oo, recounting his terrifying ordeal to World Vision staff members, his body wracked with sobs. "Finally, I had to let go of my 4 year old."
"It wiped away our bamboo house. My wife and eldest child disappeared. At one point my 2 year-old daughter froze. I feared she was dead. But when I shouted at her and shook her, she came back to life."
Ko Zaw Oo and his daughter are just two of the thousands of survivors World Vision is currently assisting with emergency food, clean water, shelter, and more.
Many more urgently need our help.
This is one disaster which matches the magnitude of the Tsunami 2004.
In the wake of Myanmar's disastrous cyclone — one of the worst to ever strike Asia — food, water, and shelter are now in desperately short supply for survivors. More than 22,000 are known dead, but that number could reach 100,000 or more when the missing are all accounted for.
As World Vision staff work amid the hardest-hit communities, we are finding unimaginable suffering. In the town of Latputa, for example, only 400 of the town's 4,000 residents survived. In just this one region alone, 50,000 people are missing and presumed dead. Just imagine the grief, despair, and fear of those who have lost loved ones, neighbors and friends and their struggle to survive in the chaotic aftermath.
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What is good?
~ All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
What is bad?
~ All that is born of weakness.
What is happiness?
~ The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
^ Friedrich Nietzsche ^
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