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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Gordon goes to Myanmar for Asean-UN aid pledging meet

SENATOR Richard Gordon will head the Philippine delegation to the Asean-UN International Pledging Conference for the Myanmar cyclone victims.

Gordon, concurrently chairman of the Philippine National Red Cross, will attend the conference in Yangoon, capital of Myanmar, on Sunday.

He will fly straight to Yangoon after attending the 17th Governing Board Meeting of the International Federation of the Red Crescent in Geneva, Switzerland.

Last May 9, Gordon sent off the first two members of a three man PNRC disaster assessment team to Myanmar where they lent their expertise in disaster management, particularly in the areas of relief goods distribution and water sanitation.

Nenita Briones, PNRC Cotabato Chapter Administrator, and Edwin Tatalagsa, PNRC Davao Chapter Disaster Management Service, had been part of Red Cross regional disaster response teams in Pakistan under the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

A third member of the PNRC assessment team, Evelyn Lacsina, will join Briones and Tatalagsa in Myanmar. Lacsina has been to Myanmar on previous Red Cross missions.

PNRC has also offered to help China in rescue operations for people buried under the debris after the powerful earthquake that struck China on May 12.

In his letter to Chinese Ambassador to Manila Song Tao, Gordon offered to send China a rescue truck complete with the equipment capable of extracting people buried under debris, as well as doctors, nurses and other emergency personnel.

Gordon has filed a resolution expressing sympathy to the Chinese people which was passed by the Senate. By: Bernadette E. Tamayo Journal online

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