Burma: Emergency shelter needs still great, say aid workers
BANGKOK, 16 June 2008 (IRIN): Six weeks after Cyclone Nargis battered Burmas Ayeyarwady Delta, scores of survivors are still without adequate protective emergency shelter and exposed to the heavy monsoon rains, adding to their risk of disease.
Many survivors have tried to create protective shelter for themselves using traditional natural materials, such as palm fronds, several aid workers, who had travelled around the stricken delta, told IRIN. These improvised shelters, they said, were not waterproof, however.
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