Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Bay Area Burmese raise cyclone relief funds

by Tyche Hendricks, Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle

Mabel Tun spent Monday working her phone nonstop. When she wasn't trying to reach her family in Rangoon, she was dialing her Burmese friends in the Bay Area and coordinating a collection of funds to send home for cyclone relief.

"We're all worried because we've heard that a lot of people are dying, but we cannot get through," said Tun, a nurse at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Palo Alto. "My niece and nephew are in Rangoon, but we cannot contact them. And my parents are in a township with no telephone. I don't know what to do." READ MORE»

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