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Pray for the Burmese Children

(pictures: International Herald Tribune, The New York Times ) According to a recently published UN report, children in Myanmar may have to attend classes in relief camps and tents because 85 percent of school buildings were destroyed or severely damaged in the country's cyclone-ravaged region. The new school term starts around June 1 and UNICEF says there is no time to rebuild the estimated 2,700 severely damaged primary schools used by 350,000 students or to replace the unknown numbers of teachers killed or missing following Cyclone Nargis , which left more than 66,000 people dead or missing. Children are the major victims of this terrible disaster. Burmese children have been through a terrible tragedy and trauma. According to the regional head of Save the Children, more than 30,000 children in the delta area are at extreme risk of chronic malnutrition, disease and abuse. Thousands of malnourished children in the delta area now risk death if they do not get food in the ne