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<< Previous   of   Next >>   ADVERTISEMENT   How to help Here is a list of relief agencies where people can donate to assist victims of the tragedies in Myanmar and China: * St. Vincent de Paul -- Snohomish County: P.O. Box 2269 Everett, WA 98213 or call 425-513-6052 for information Other organization assisting with Myanmar: * www.FeedTheChildren.org * American Red Cross -- International Response Fund, american.redcross.org * World Vision, www.worldvision.org * World Concern, www.worldconcern.org * Medical Teams International, www.nwmedicalteams.org Organizations assisting in China: * World Vision, www.WorldVision.org/China, * American Red Cross -- International Response Fund, american.redcross.org/ * Mercy Corps, www.mercycorps.org   CONTACT THE HERALD Robert Frank, City Editor frank@heraldnet.com   Published: Saturday, May 17, 2008 Snohomish County charity tries to help Myanmar By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer CLEARVIEW -- Two weeks after a cyclone devastated Myanmar, there's still only sketchy details about what type of assistance the Southeast Asian nation most needs. Even so, Jim Kehoe decided it was time to take action. Kehoe is executive director of Snohomish County Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and also is a member of its national disaster relief committee. At his urging, the organization has launched an appeal for disaster relief funds to help cyclone victims -- the latest in the growing list of groups raising money to aid Myanmar and China, which this week was ravaged by a massive earthquake. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, an international nonprofit Catholic relief organization, has members living in Myanmar who are trying to assist the estimated 2 million people in the Asian nation affected by the cyclone, Kehoe said. Yet it was only about two days ago that the national branch of St. Vincent de Paul was able to contact some of its members in Myanmar, he said. "There's so much confusion, it was difficult to get anybody with any answers," Kehoe said. Volunteers there are doing anything they can to help those displaced by the cyclone. "They're working with what they have," he said. "This might be as simple as setting up tarps." The country's military dictatorship has not allowed aid organizations, including United Nations officials, to enter areas affected by the cyclone. "We pray that the Red Cross … and other governments of the world will be allowed in there to do something," Kehoe said. Reporter Sharon Salyer: 425-339-3486 or salyer@heraldnet.com.

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