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Naw Hsar Hsae Wah, Myanmar.
Myanmar experienced devastating floods in the 2012 monsoon season, which affected two million people's access to food, clean water and shelter. ActionAid immediately co-funded a humanitarian relief operation, which is still a relatively new phenomenon in Myanmar, where the first large scale international relief operation allowed was in the aftermath of the devastating Cyclone Nargis in 2008.
Naw Hsar Hsae Wah, 28, has seen her share of devastating floods in Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy Delta. But when her bamboo house in from Yae Cho village was inundated by this year's monsoon rain, the situation was about as bad as it gets.
"The water level was only a few inches lower than in 2004, which was the most severe flood in my life", she explains.
The young mother of three was already facing difficulties making ends meet when the monsoon season began. In July, when the monsoon rain grew harder and more incessant, the seemingly endless showers flooded the area, wind and waves destroyed houses and fields. By then Naw Hsar Hsae Wah's bamboo house begun to fall apart and the food became scarcer by the day. She sent her kids to her mother's house, but stayed in her inundated house herself.
In August nearly six hundred villages in the Ayeyarwaddy Delta were flooded, affecting two million people's access to food, clean water and shelter.
ActionAid Myanmar's local partner organisation Pathein-Myaung Mya Sgaw Kayin Baptist Association sent out a flash appeal for help, and without hesitation ActionAid Myanmar pledged to contribute to the relief operation. Just two days later the first food supplies reached affected villages. Over the coming weeks 12,705 persons in 35 affected villages received food aid funded by ActionAid.
Naw Hsar Hsae Wah has now received basic foodstuffs and enough bamboo to rebuild her house and welcome her kids back home.
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Naw Hsar Hsae Wah, Myanmar.
Myanmar experienced devastating floods in the 2012 monsoon season, which affected two million people's access to food, clean water and shelter. ActionAid immediately co-funded a humanitarian relief operation, which is still a relatively new phenomenon in Myanmar, where the first large scale international relief operation allowed was in the aftermath of the devastating Cyclone Nargis in 2008.
Naw Hsar Hsae Wah, 28, has seen her share of devastating floods in Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy Delta. But when her bamboo house in from Yae Cho village was inundated by this year's monsoon rain, the situation was about as bad as it gets.
"The water level was only a few inches lower than in 2004, which was the most severe flood in my life", she explains.
The young mother of three was already facing difficulties making ends meet when the monsoon season began. In July, when the monsoon rain grew harder and more incessant, the seemingly endless showers flooded the area, wind and waves destroyed houses and fields. By then Naw Hsar Hsae Wah's bamboo house begun to fall apart and the food became scarcer by the day. She sent her kids to her mother's house, but stayed in her inundated house herself.
In August nearly six hundred villages in the Ayeyarwaddy Delta were flooded, affecting two million people's access to food, clean water and shelter.
ActionAid Myanmar's local partner organisation Pathein-Myaung Mya Sgaw Kayin Baptist Association sent out a flash appeal for help, and without hesitation ActionAid Myanmar pledged to contribute to the relief operation. Just two days later the first food supplies reached affected villages. Over the coming weeks 12,705 persons in 35 affected villages received food aid funded by ActionAid.
Naw Hsar Hsae Wah has now received basic foodstuffs and enough bamboo to rebuild her house and welcome her kids back home.
Join us in the fight against poverty at www.actionaid.org
Follow us at @ActionAid
Like us on Facebook
Photo: Paw Paw Htoo/PMA/ActionAid