New Statesman - <![CDATA[Katy Barnett]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/katy_barnett en http://images.newstatesman.com/users/avatars/katy-barnett_90x90.jpg Katy Barnett http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/katy_barnett <![CDATA[Burma's lost children ]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2008/05/cyclone-reunite-workers http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2008/05/cyclone-reunite-workers Fri, 16 May 2008 14:21:57 GMT Katy Barnett In the second of her exclusive reports for newstatesman.com, Katy Barnett highlights the efforts of relief workers to reunite families torn apart by Cyclone Nargis

Day two. Already it feels like I’ve been here for so long that I can’t remember what came before the Burma cyclone response. I’ve become so used to slipping my sandals off at the entrance to the office (where a small field of paired flipflops grows throughout the morning) that I was mortified to join an interagency meeting this morning where everyone kept their shoes on.

We rattled through [...]

]]> <![CDATA[The view from inside Burma]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2008/05/burma-children-work-aid-able http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2008/05/burma-children-work-aid-able Tue, 13 May 2008 17:52:21 GMT Katy Barnett Save The Children child protection advisor Katy Barnett is one of the few foreign aid workers to have been able to operate in Burma. Here she reports for newstatesman.com about the work she is doing in the wake of the cyclone

Less than twenty four hours ago I was in a different world – the shiny expanse of Bangkok’s new airport, busy with sushi, hotspots, orchids, palatial lounges and themed cafés. Here in Yangon, everyone is focusing on recovery and survival, one step at a time. The traffic lights don’t work, nobody has had time to right the pot plants on the office balcony, which have fallen like dominoes, and even [...]

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