relief activities in disaster-hit area

Myanmar experienced an unprescended disaster last May. After the storm comes the breeze. The organizations fr all walks of life flocked to the disaster-hit area in the Ayeyarwaddy delta. They helps the local populace, worn out by the cyclone in every way they can. But what is lacking there is a strong constitution to harmonize the relief activities. The aids of multimillion kyats goes useless with the lack of technical expertise to tap it well in right time in the right place to the right people. For instance, an aid group came to a delta town with the ambition of raising the living std of the local people. The group had junior docs and barely experienced management personnel and did whatever they liked. They gave the medicines recklessly; they chlorinated the water sources without knowing much of the water quality there; they bred the beggers' spirit in the honest folksman in the rural area. But one must confess these aids played a crucial role in the post-disaster relief activities in the delta area.

the rebirth of a bear

Watching on the TV screen the US foreign secretary Condoleeza Rice visiting the Black sea town of Gori and holding talks with the Georgian counterpart, my thought flashed back to the late 1960s when the same scenarios came to happen in Hungary. Could Russia allow its Blacksea exit blocked by its coldwar rival? Could Russia make itself a landlocked nation, after it failed to persuade the Baltic states stay away fr the west? The answer is simply no and it shud b so. It is clear that every nation in the modern world wud do its best 4 its own national interest first, without paying much heed to the voices of the international community. It simply alarms the nations with big boss nearby to handle the delicate issue of the immigrants with farsightedness and wisdom.

the Brazilians arrive, but....

When the famous Manchester United Football Club arrived in Thailand, the whole country was wild with their support 4 the world #1 football club. Every street corner was filled with the atomsphere of the English Premier League giant. It was thought that it wud b the same if something like that wud happen in Myanmar. A fr of mine even said our people wud go wild even more. But when the footballers of world #1 soccer nation came here in Myanmar, only few people showed up in the tropical wind and rains. Are we myanmars really afraid of rains? Are we myanmars really fed up with the art of football amid the post-disaster dukkha ? A common myanmar shud understand the nature of charity match and that donation to social works is not inferior to that simply gone to monesteries and pagodas. Anyway we myanmars are not that mature enough!