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Posted by Josh Mendelsohn, Program
Manager

Over the past few days, we've followed the devastation left in
the wake of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma). News reports have
tallied more than 22,000 dead with another 41,000 missing.
We're extremely saddened by the loss of life due to this
cyclone, and hope you'd like to help assist with the relief
effort.

As we did after href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/wildfire-relief-donations.html"
id="j9np" >last fall's wildfires in Southern California,
we've created a href="http://www.google.com/myanmarcyclone/" id="gyvr" >Checkout
Donations page so you can easily donate to href="http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/myanmar_43788.html"
id="c4jh" >UNICEF or href="http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2008/CycloneNargisMyanmar/CycloneNargisMyanmar.aspx"
id="eiu0" >Direct Relief International.
Both organizations are working to directly assist the victims on
the ground in Myanmar.

To help visualize the damage, there are Google Earth layers showing
an href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/tracking-path-of-cyclone-nargis.html"
id="x2oi" >animation of
the cyclone's path (using satellite imagery from the Naval
Research Laboratory) and href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/unosat-layer-of-myanmar-cyclone-data.html"
id="nzjs" >the extent of the
flooding using data from the UN Institute for Training and
Research Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT).
We'll keep posting information to the href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/" id="m3i_"
>Lat-Long Blog as more data comes
available.

There are also several Google Grants non-profits working to provide
relief to those affected. href="https://secure.ga4.org/01/cyclone_nargis" id="cedv"
>Save the Children currently has a
500-person staff in the area, while href="https://donate.oxfamamerica.org/02/myanmar" id="eu.h"
>Oxfam America has committed $800,000 to
help NGOs meet the immediate needs of people. href="http://www.worldvision.org/news.nsf/news/myanmar-cyclone-20080505?open&lid=20225&lpos=fea_txt_ReadMore"
id="mi.s" >World Vision and href="http://doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=2656"
id="b4h7" >Doctors Without
Borders are also taking action with two of the most vulnerable
populations in the crisis: children and the injured. We are pleased
to be working with and supporting these organizations that are
contributing directly to cyclone relief. We encourage you to visit
them and consider lending them your support, too. For more details
on these organizations and other non-profits providing support for
the victims of the disaster, visit the

href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2008/05/grant-recipients-helping-victims-of.html"
id="b:qu" >Google Grants blog.

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