AFPThe UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is launching an appeal to help the thousands of people injured and displaced as a result of last week’s powerful earthquake which struck Myanmar and the wider region.
Made up of 15 UK aid agencies, including the British Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children, the DEC is asking the British public for donations before the monsoon season arrives in two months.
More than 2,800 people have died and more than 4,500 have been injured, according to the leaders of Myanmar’s military government, with figures expected to rise.
The charities say shelter, medicine, food, water and cash support is “urgently needed”.
Baroness Chapman, minister for…