Mercy Corps is accepting donations to help partners on the ground bring relief to affected families.

 
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The rising death toll from last weekend's Cyclone Nargis now exceeds 22,000, according to government figures. Another 41,000 are still missing.

Please donate now to our Myanmar Cyclone Fund to help storm survivors.

"Burma is a country that had great needs even before this emergency," said Mervyn Lee, executive director of Mercy Corps' European headquarters, who visited the country last September. "Now those needs are magnified immensely, and it will require a response that's beyond the capacity of any one country to restore normalcy to people's lives."

Press reports say 120-mile-per-hour winds flattened buildings and uprooted trees throughout the Irrawaddy delta. Water supplies in the country's capital have been disrupted, and the UN estimates up to a million people are homeless.

Mercy Corps is currently working through an international partner to assist rural families in Burma, and has a robust presence throughout South Asia. The agency operates economic-development programs in neighboring India and nearby Nepal, and last November helped raise money for colleague agencies to deliver humanitarian aid when a cyclone displaced millions in Bangladesh.

Please consider a gift to our Myanmar Cyclone Fund to speed relief to families in need.