Support for Named Disaster: 2007 Tropical Cyclone Sidr Support available at Americares - HQ [medical aid]

AmeriCares relief team has arrived in Bangladesh and is working with our partners to evaluate the damage caused by Cyclone Sidr. One emergency shipment of medicines and supplies has been sent from Stamford, Connecticut and another one is being prepared in Amsterdam, both due to arrive in Dhaka, Bangladesh later this week. The violent storm made landfall on the coast the morning of Nov. 15 with wind speeds averaging 149 mph. Early reports say that thousands of homes, utility poles and trees have been leveled by the violent storm. More than 3,100 are feared dead and many more thousands are left homeless.

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