Burma Disaster Relief Fund

85,000 DEAD. 50,000 STILL MISSING.

SHELTER, FOOD, CLOTHING: LIMITED. WE NEED YOUR HELP.

Cyclone Nargis moved across southern Myanmar on the evening of May 2, 2008, leaving a trail of death and destruction before petering out the next day. It devastated much of the fertile Irrawaddy Delta and Yangon, the nation's main city. Nearly 85,000 people died; a year later, an additional 54,000 people are still listed as missing.

The storm's winds reached as high as 121 mph at landfall, but most of the deaths it caused were blamed not directly on its winds, but on a tidal surge that it drove inland from the sea.

The cyclone was one of the deadliest storms in recorded history. It blew away 700,000 homes in the delta. It killed three-fourths of the livestock, sank half the fishing fleet and salted a million acres of rice paddies with its seawater surges. 

Now we need your help.