"There are still as many as 100,000 families without the basic shelter they need to get through the wet season, but unless we get new funding by May 2010, we will be forced to close our three offices in the Delta and end our shelter programme," says IOM Myanmar Chief of Mission Mariko Tomiyama.
Cyclone Nargis swept through Myanmar on 2-3 of May 2008, leaving nearly 140,000 people dead and 2.4 million homeless.
According to the Tripartite Core Group of the UN, ASEAN and the Government of Myanmar, which has coordinated the post-Nargis emergency response and reconstruction effort, as of mid-January, there were still over half a million Nargis-affected people without adequate shelter.
Over the past 20 months, IOM has been actively engaged in emergency and early recovery efforts in the Delta, assisting over 400,000 people in the areas of shelter, health and psychosocial programmes.
IOM's shelter programme has helped over 58,000 households through a community-oriented approach. In addition to full and partial shelter assistance packages, this provides household level livelihood assistance, through the provision of home gardening kits, cash for work schemes, carpentry training, and community livelihood lending centres.
Source :http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/JBRN-82QDF6?OpenDocument
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