Disaster-affected communities are and should be the architects of their own recovery, not merely passive recipients of international goodwill

Posted by Imogen Wall on Tue, 2008-11-04 13:46
 

In the days after Cyclone Nargis in Burma, survivor Kyaw Kyaw was desperate. His house had survived the cyclone – just. But what if more was coming? Kyaw needed to know. Desperately poor though he was, he and two other families scraped together US$5 – enough to purchase something they saw as vital after the disaster: a small transistor radio. "We don't spend a single day without listening to the weather report", he says. In these...[Read More]

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