A woman applies the traditional facial cosmetic thanaka on her face as residents take shelter in a makeshift tent camp in Mandalay on April 1, 2025, a few days after the deadly Myanmar earthquake. There is an urgent need for sustained support in rebuilding housing infrastructures, restoring water and electricity, and enabling economic recovery. - AFP
YANGON: As the response to Myanmar's 7.9-magnitude earthquake transitions from emergency relief to long-term recovery, there is an urgent need for sustained support in rebuilding housing infrastructures, restoring water and electricity, and enabling economic recovery, Yasmine Praz Dessimoz, director of Operations of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said.
Beyond emergency response, recovery efforts have to be sustained in the long run, for local people to resume a normal life, she told Xinhua in an interview.
