Locals Continue to Help Relief Effort in Myanmar and China

Residents in the Okanagan Valley looking to help with aid efforts in Myanmar and China can do so through the Red Cross.

Jan Bowden, with the Southern Interior Branch, says they have already sent in relief supplies to both regions.

Relief workers and medical staff on the ground are being overwhelmed as survivors from Myanmar's cyclone and China's eartquake pour in.

Bowden says anyone wanting to donate to those regions just has to specify where they want their money to go.

The death toll from from Monday's earthquake in China is almost 20,000 meantime Myanmar's cyclone has taken the lives of more than 43,000 people.

Those numbers are expected to increase by the tens of thousands in both regions as more rubble is cleared and bodies are found.

Jessica Samuels - Astral Media Radio News (Kelowna)