News, Photos & Videos › Blog › Myanmar: "Disease will break out" [This Week's Voices]
Since 1933, the IRC has provided hope and humanitarian aid to refugees and other victims of oppression and violent conflict around the world.
Recent Posts
The IRC on Twitter
-
RT @So_Jo1: @theIRC's Felix Leger on VOA today t.co/vzvenVNEJ1
May 22, 2013
-
RT @So_Jo1: @theIRC will provide 70,000 liters of clean water daily--enough potable water for 5,000 people a day to drink, cook and bathe #…
May 22, 2013
-
Less than 10 yrs after fleeing Somalia, Amal Kahim Jama & her family became refugees again, in Syria: t.co/wZkmKWqy00 via @AJEnglish
May 22, 2013
-
@IRCPress You've been quoted in my #Storify story "Crisis in Darfur, 10 Years On" t.co/guLOti8F02
May 21, 2013
-
RT @IRCPress: Race against time to aid new #Darfur #refugees in Chad before rains begin: t.co/z6eDBFeR1I
May 21, 2013
VOICES FROM THE FIELDTHE IRC BLOG
Myanmar: "Disease will break out" [This Week's Voices]
May 23, 2008
By The IRC
Photo: The IRC |
A weekly round-up of notable quotes from the news and the Web:
“If these people aren’t reached and aid got to them quickly, and shelter and toilet facilities, disease will break out.”- Gordon Bacon, IRC emergency coordinator in Myanmar, speaking with The Daily Telegraph (UK) about the dire conditions confronting cyclone victims “Our partners who are now distributing the goods say that the local authorities have been extremely cooperative. We are also getting exceptionally good assistance from the monasteries, from the monks. They have helped us to identify who are the most vulnerable. They need, of course, much more help.”- Melissa Winkler, IRC emergency communications director, in a Q&A with the Bangkok Post "The Iraqis that we’re serving right now are coming with serious medical and psychosocial needs.”- Vu Dang, IRC resettlement director in Silver Spring, Maryland, in an article on Examiner.com that profiled an Iraqi refugee family resettled by the IRC in the Washington, D.C. area "Family reunification has been a difficult process for many. Some of the most difficult (cases) are those where children have been separated from mothers, for one reason or another. When mothers have attempted to use the processes available to them, the results have been very disappointing."- Ken Briggs, IRC resettlement director in Tucson, in an interview with The Tucson Citizen for a profile of Tommy Taye, a 29-year-old Liberian refugee who aspires to help other Liberian refugees in Tucson. |
No comments yet.
Voices From...
Contributors





























Comments
Post new comment