Aid For Myanmar

A Myanmar girl eats a meal of rice and peanuts while staying at a shelter, in Kyauktan Township, in southern Myanmar on Thursday May 8, 2008. Myanmar's isolationist regime Thursday gave clearance for the first major international airlift carrying aid to survivors of a cyclone that may have killed more than 100,000 people, officials said.

Myanmar men ride on a vehicle loaded with rice in Kyauktan Township, in southern Myanmar on Thursday May 8, 2008. The U.N.'s World Food Program says its first flight carrying aid has landed in Myanmar after the military regime gave clearance to send relief material to cyclone victims.

Workers pour rice into bags to be loaded on to a truck for distribution, in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Cyclone victims in Myanmar's biggest city faced new challenges Wednesday as markets doubled prices of rice, charcoal and bottled water, belying government claims that life was returning to normal after a storm that claimed some 22,000 lives.

Workers load packages of rice on to a truck in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 7, 2008.

Malaysian aid workers pack relief supplies into boxes for cyclone victims in Myanmar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, May 7, 2008.

Staff of the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD), which is managed by the World Food Program, load an aircraft bound for Myanmar at Brindisi airport, in Brindisi, Italy, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. The international relief effort for hundreds of thousands of cyclone victims picked up speed Wednesday as India dispatched two planeloads of aid and Myanmar authorized the United Nations to send air shipments.

Staff of the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) load an Airbus 300 for Yangon, Myanmar, at the airport in Brindisi, Italy, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. The UNHRD, managed by the World Food Program, has organized an airlift of aid worth around $560,000 on behalf of the Italian Foreign Ministry's Development Cooperation Office in response to urgent humanitarian assistance after Tropical Cyclone Nargis.

Myanmar soldiers carry sacks of rice, part of aid supplied by the Thai government, at an airport in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, where nearly 22,000 people perished, remained largely cut off from the rest of the world Tuesday, four days after a cyclone unleashed winds, floods and high tidal waves on the densely populated region.

Myanmar soldiers unload boxes of supplies from a Thai transport plane at Yangon airport in Myanmar Tuesday, May 6, 2008.

Myanmar soldiers unload boxes of supplies from a Thai transport plane at Yangon airport in Myanmar Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, where nearly 22,000 people perished, remained largely cut off from the rest of the world Tuesday, four days after a cyclone unleashed winds, floods and high tidal waves on the densely populated region.

Thai soldiers load supplies for victims of the devastating cyclone in Myanmar on to a Thai military transport plane at the military airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 6, 2008.

Thai soldiers check a cart loaded with supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone in Myanmar at a warehouse near the military airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 6, 2008.

Supplies for victims of the devastating cyclone in Myanmar wait to be loaded on to a Thai military transport plane at the military airport in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, May 6, 2008.

A Thai soldier pulls a cart loaded with supplies for victims of the devastating cyclone in Myanmar at a warehouse near the military airport in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, May 6, 2008.

Supplies for victims of the devastating cyclone in Myanmar wait to be loaded onto a Thai military transport plane at the military airport in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, May 6, 2008.