Save the children
Aug 11 2008, R.M.Paulraj

Several thousand people in Burma (also called Myanmar) were severely affected as they completely lost their homes and livelihood after Cyclone Nargis devastated the area last May. Complete villages were razed to the ground, and among the worst...

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