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The Cyclone Nargis left 138,000 dead or missing early May and Myanmar authorities were strongly criticised for blocking emergency aid efforts.

Su Win Yu, 12, misses her parents who were both killed during the cyclone that hit the country, Sunday, July 6, 2008 in a village in Myanmar.

With thousands of casualties from the cyclone, a great number of children were orphaned and are now living with their relatives or neighbors who care for them.

Despite retaining a 400,000-strong army and earning two billion dollars a year in revenue from natural gas supplies, the junta was slow to rally its own supplies to the 2.4 million people severely affected by the storm.

Burma Disaster

John Holmes, the UN's humanitarian chief, said relief operations in Myanmar were "by no means over".

"There are many who still remain in need of basic assistance and urgent support," he said, adding that many cyclone-affected areas had still not received the level of assistance they needed.

These people still need funds.

People devasted, houses ripped apart, orphans with nowhere to go, a regime that has made aid difficult. These are all the consequenses of the cyclone that hit this region of the Irrawaddy Delta. The situation is still desperate and in some case now forgotten, but these people are still in desperate need of aid and funds. Cheques payable to JoyWorld (BURMA)

Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia. The country is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, and India on the northwest, with the Bay of Bengal to the southwest. One-third of Burma's total perimeter, 1,930 kilometers (1,199 mi), forms an uninterrupted coastline.

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Burma, or Myanmar as it is called by the Military Junta, is a country where magnificent and ancient Buddhist temples gaze out serenely over a nation restless for change. Burma has plenty of wonders for the eye--sinuous, life-giving rivers, lush mountain forests, and intricately-drawn cities--but it can also trouble the soul. For the last 30 years, its people have been ruled by a notoriously repressive military government, the Tatmadaw.

We can think of a number of reasons why we should not help, religious, political, and one in particular ' the represive governmen.' But there is one reason in particular why we should help, that should cry out to us all, simply, these people are in desperate need.

Matt 25:35-36
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' (NIV)