A five-member relief team traveled from Canada to Myanmar Wednesday to help victims of the devastating cyclone that happened Saturday there.
The relief personnel, from the group named GlobalMedic, are taking along five million water purification tablets, 21 water purification units as well as medicine worth 1 million Canadian dollars (1 million U.S. dollars), said Matt Capobianco, manager of emergency programs with Toronto-based GlobalMedic.
The group will arrive Thursday and stay in the field in Myanmar for 10 days, he said.
International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda announced Monday to provide two million Canadian dollars (2 million U.S. dollars) in aid for Myanmar.
The cyclone killed more than 22,000 people, left 41,000 missing and left an estimated one million people homeless.
Source:Xinhua
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