Here is an email from one of our workers in Haiti - Joni Zweig:

Team Amurt/el Haiti Response - One month after the Earthquake

A powerful 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti at 5 PM Haiti time (10 PM UTC) on Tuesday January 12 . The epicenter is 10km from the capital Port Au Prince.

Here is the latest news from Haiti:- We negotiated a contract with the World Food Program (WFP), our largest ever, and the same size as the contract with CARE, for distribution emergency food to 1300 families per day, more than 78,000 people per month, in the worst affected 5 city zones (some still covered in mud).

20 May 2008

Dada Laliteshananda is a yogi monk and has been the main co-ordinator for AMURT in Burma. Here is his account of the cyclone.....

--- On Fri, 5/9/08, Dada laliteshananda wrote:

Namaskar all:

I want to thank all of you who wrote concerned about my situation here, and I want to apologize for not replying individually to each one of you. At the moment there's a huge relief operation on the way, we are just waiting for the amurt team to arrive here. It is outrageous that Myanmar government is blocking the visa of the aid workers.

Many AMURT supporters will be undertaking 48 and 24 hr sponsored fasts in order to raise funds for the AMURT relief effort, currently well underway in Burma.

Check out the following Justgiving pages and sponsor these guys if you can.