Nearly three months after the "Nargis" typhoon hit Myanmar, 700,000 children still need long-term assistance. This was reported by Unicef, saying that nearly two and a half million people have been hit by the typhoon, which destroyed hundreds of thousands of houses, schools and health-care facilities. "Even if the condition of the children has slowly improved and the risk of wide epidemics has been warded off, we have to increase our efforts so that children and families may completely recover from the devastation caused by the Nargis typhoon", stated Ramesh Shresta, Unicef delegate to Myanmar. On July 10th, the UN made a new appeal for Myanmar: since May 4th, Unicef has been engaged in over 200 missions to the affected areas, and over 50 humanitarian flights have taken Unicef’s aids to Myanmar. Unicef has handed out emergency health kits to treat 630 thousand people, 21,283 birth kits and 2,361 basic drugs. Because of the impact of the typhoon on education, Unicef is supporting schooling by handing out school tents 123 of which have already been set up and supplying 181,298 waterproof tarpaulins so that 1,324 unroofed schools have become usable again.
