Good morning to you. I received 3750 water purifying tablets and some pills for indigestion and diarrhea from Gitameit. Thanks to everyone indeed! The trip was a success. Gitameit staff shared knowledge which is very important for the work we are doing now. They provided a set of questions to ask and study the situation of site.

This trip was different from our previous trips because we were able to collect important data. I also gained a better understanding of the lives of the people we are helping and what we need to support in the future.

The journey was a most terrible one even though it’s only around 30 miles from Yangon. Because of the bad road conditions, very few people have accessed this village. We took a paddy carrier which has only a single engine and small trailer for about 10 miles, and it took about 3 hours to reach the village.

Everyone in this area has been eating rotten, yellow coloured rice since Nargis came. They are drinking dirty water from the lake. Nargis almost destroyed the entire village and killed some people — mostly women and children who were not strong enough to run for their lives. When I was entering the village I saw they were cooking rotten rice (that is all they have) for monthly donations the next day for their dead relatives. Some have none left. Monks themselves would pray in front of their ruined houses for them.

I handed over the medicine to the first class nurse. She will organize the people to drink purified water, but there were not enough tablets for everyone. Also it was not possible to replace the rotten rice with white rice. I think no one can do this but UN. Funeral Service Yangon promised me to donate some medical needs such as needles and anti-biotics. Now I am trying to get these thing as first priority because the death toll is rising day by day.