Burmese dioceses setting up camps for people displaced by cyclone Nargis

[Dale_M]

Myanmar’s Catholic Church is continuing its work helping people displaced by cyclone Nargis, whilst the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) has started a campaign in favour of the stricken country called “Sanamu Mieta” (Sympathy and Love). The diocese in the affected areas of Yangon Mawlamyine and Pathein have organised rescue groups and parishes have set up refugee camps. Sources inside the Burmese Church have reported that at least a hundred Catholics lost their lives in the dioceses of Yangon and Pathein respectively.

In the latter the bishop, Mgr John Hsane Hgyi, set up a team that is touring the area looking for survivors and bringing them to two camps set up in the parish compounds of Kanazogon and Myaungmya.

“We provide them with food and medicines. And so far we have reached a thousand people,” a local source said. “Our next goal is to set up two teams of medical volunteers who can go into the diocese and help out in the most urgent cases like people who are dying of hunger, cholera and dysentery, especially the children and the weakest.”

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[stbruno]

Thank God that some people are making a small impact in the lives of these victims. However, there is a whole lot more to be done…beginning with our prayers.