FROM THE FIELD
Oxfam’s Jane Beesley visits Myanmar (Burma) and encounters an astonishing spirit among communities rebuilding after Cyclone Nargis tore their lives and livelihoods apart less than a year ago. A small pink fluffy bunny has been slapping me in the face. It’s neither an illusion nor a dream: three of us are sitting in the back of a taxi, and the passenger windows are covered in cartoon characters and fluffy toys. It is surreal, though, because we’re in the Ayeyarwady delta region of Myanmar, where Cyclone Nargis wreaked devastation last May - leaving more than 130,000 people dead or missing, and affecting around 2.4 million people.
[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
