IRC VP: Myanmar needed help before

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00:00I mean it's a country of 50 million people, which is a large population. I mean we forget how big

00:05Myanmar is. Just tell us what sort of stocks of essentials, you know, food, medicine, shelter,

00:13aid organisations would have typically on the ground at any one time in a place like Myanmar?

00:17Well I can speak to the IRC. We did have a warehouse full of stocks. It is a drop in the

00:23ocean compared to what is needed now. The reason why the international community, the IRC amongst

00:28them, doesn't have bigger stocks is because there's just so much unmet need on an ongoing

00:33basis. There are people around the country who are in urgently in need of humanitarian assistance

00:40before this earthquake and now we're just dealing with a massive factor on top of that.