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I didn't hear about the cyclone until a week after it had happened. I was staying in a very rural part of the state where I work. It is very difficult to communicate in the village where I was staying, and it is a long way from the state capital. There is no television there and because all the telephone lines were down, I first heard about the cyclone on the radio.

"The first thing that I heard was that Bogale and Setsan areas had been very badly damaged and that many people had died. Then we were called back to the state capital. We were told that they needed four nurses to travel down to the Delta, so I decided to volunteer because I wanted to help the people who had been affected by the cyclone.

"We first traveled down to Yangon, then after two days we went to Pyapon. I noticed that there were a lot of people living in temporary shelters next to the main road. This was because all the houses in the villages had been damaged in the storm, so people had to come and live by the road.

"All these houses were very small and not big enough for the families. The houses were made out of palm leaves that they had found from coconut trees - this was to try to keep the rain out. This was because they could not afford to buy any construction materials because after the cyclone the cost doubled. But even so, a lot of shops had already run out of construction materials and it was impossible to buy any. When I arrived in Pyapon all the houses seemed to be damaged. Almost all of them had lost their roof.

"From Pyapon, we traveled out to quite a lot of smaller villages. One of the things that I noticed were all the dead bodies. There were so many, especially lots of children. There were also lots of dead animals, especially water buffalos and pigs.

"I was surprised because, although I didn't arrive until two weeks after the cyclone, there were still a lot of dead bodies which smell really bad. The...