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A monk stands next to the frame of a monastery he his rebuilding. He survived Nargis because he was was visiting Labutta when the cyclone hit. His fellow monks from the monastery were not so lucky.
A monastery school in Labutta is home to many young children, some of whom were orphaned by the cyclone.
The abbot of the monastery in Labutta and a girl who, like many children, was sent to the monastery after the cyclone because her family could not afford to look after her.
A boatmen uses his foot to direct the rudder on our small boat as we navigate the maze of river passages in the area around Labutta. Most villages in the delta are only accessible by boat, a fact that hampered the initial relief effort.
Clockwise from top: Father and son, both boatmen, returning us to Labutta as evening falls. | A small fishing boat in one of the larger delta channels. | A puppy born after the cyclone. | As the light fades, villagers see us off from their jetty.
In the midday heat, a monk guides us across the barren mud landscape of a salt facility. Rollers are used to flatten the land, which is then flooded with seawater that evaporates to leave salt.
A man collects drinking water from the village water pond. Many ponds were ruined by seawater during the cyclone, leaving some communities reliant on external supplies until ponds could be restored and then filled by the next monsoon rain.
Young boys practise their diving skills on a jetty outside a rice mill in Labutta.
Clockwise from left: A man walks along the jetty towards a rice mill. | A mechanic watches over a steam engine, built in Birmingham around 1910, which is powered by rice husks. | Inside the mill, a worker takes a nap on bags of rice.
A man counts bags of rice brought into the mill for processing using sticks handed to him by workers.
Not far from Pathein, two men feed rice bushels into a thresher.
Women use the wind to finely sort the rice grains from the light chaff. The heavier rice falls to the ground while the chaff is blown behind by the breeze.
The area around Pathein is on higher ground and so was not affected by the storm surge that inundated paddy fields and water ponds elsewhere.
In Labutta, two men saw planks from an enormous log.
A carpenter helps to construct a test shelter in Kywe Chan Wa village as part of an IOM carpenter training programme.
Members of the Shauk Saung village community construction committee meet with IOM staff to discuss the shelter building programme in the village.
A woman holds her grandchild in the entrance to her house in Sar Phyu Su village. IOM supplied the grandparents with some shelter materials to improve the quality of their home.
A woman and child sit in their new house, built by IOM in Kywe Chan Wa village. Each village community construction committee is tasked with determining which households are most vulnerable and so in need of assistance.
A woman poses beside the bamboo frame of her half-complete house in Sar Phyu Su village.
A carpenter prepares the joints for floor joists on a shelter in Kywe Chan Chaung Phyar village. A typical shelter costs a few hundred dollars to build and many people later modify them with porches.
In a course organised by UNDP, women learn how to book-keep as a means to giving them the skills to better manage their finances and also set-up small businesses.
Young boys jump from a half-built monastery building while their mothers learn book-keeping in the main monastery hall next door.
A woman concentrates on her book-keeping lesson. | A girl studies in a temporary school shelter. Re-establishing routine following the cyclone was important to helping mitigate the psychological impacts of the disaster.
A health worker from ADRA teaches basic hygiene to children at a primary school.
Children learn a song with action to better help them remember their lesson on hygiene.
In a temporary school building provided by UNICEF, a young boy returns to his seat after drawing on the board.
The Masked Crusader.
In a village near Labutta, a women's self-help group, set up and part-funded by UNDP, gathers to meet. The woman pictured right is the village midwife.
People gather at a mobile medical clinic run by doctors from ADRA. Among those people that survived the storm surge, fewer than expected were left with serious injuries.
Children wait to see the doctor. The mobile medical clinics run by organisations such as ADRA and HelpAge Intl. mostly worked to alleviate pre-existing health problems aggravated by the cyclone.
A doctor from ADRA provides rehydration salts to a poorly child. Most small villages do not have health clinics so people must often travel more than one hour by boat to find medical care.
A physiotherapist working for Handicap International pays a house visit to a woman with poor mobility.
Healthcare in the delta is basic but the prescription of basic exercises and efforts to improve access offer inexpensive ways to help improve the lives of some people with disabilities.
A young girl born without hands or feet plays in the Handicap International drop-in centre in Labutta.
The Handicap International drop-in centre provided physiotherapy for people with disabilities and sought to teach the disabled and their care-givers ways to better manage disability.
Boys keep an eye on things in a village near Labutta.
To the sound of incredibly loud music, a young couple celebrate their wedding.
In Hti Seik Bayar Su village, a man enters a health centre that was destroyed by Cyclone Nargis. A new health centre was built by IOM in a nearby village to serve the local area.
A nurse proudly shows off the patient consultation room of a newly opened sub-rural health centre in Nuang Pin That village.
An IOM employee gives a health education seminar to members of the local community in Nuang Pin That village.