Some 30 families got reunified with their missing members after they were found survived through the assistance of the Myanmar Red Cross, local news journal Flower News reported Monday.
The Myanmar Red Cross has been working in eight areas in the Ayeyawaddy delta region for search of tens of thousands of missing cyclone victims since mid-May soon after the cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar early in the month.
The areas cover Kyaiklat, Dedaye, Phyapon, Bogalay, Maubin, Myaungmya, Laputta and Pathein, the report said.
Over 300 more families are still awaiting for information about their missing members through the domestic humanitarian organization, the report added.
According to earlier other local report, the Myanmar Red Cross is also cooperating with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the move introducing red cross message stations to expedite the task on which families with missing members can depend more on.
Meanwhile, the Myanmar government is also helping to find orphans' survived relatives for family reunification and provide education for them.
While accommodating the orphans in cyclone-lesser-hit Maubin and Myaungmya in Ayeyawaddy division, the government is also building two orphanages in cyclone-hard-hit Phyapon and Laputta in the same division to each house 300 orphans, earlier report also said, adding that so far there has been 130 cyclone-survived children officially registered as orphans out of an initially-estimated number of over 500.
Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin on May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.
The storm has killed 77,738 people and left 55,917 missing and 19,359 injured according to official-released death toll.
Source:Xinhua
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