The people of Myanmar can’t seem to catch a break. Here’s my plea to the international community

Two thoughts entered my head as soon as I saw that Myanmar, my home country, had been hit by an earthquake: “Is everyone OK?”, followed by, “We just can’t catch a break”. My loved ones thankfully turned out to be badly shaken but physically OK. There were material losses but nothing compared with what so many others are going through.The quake on 28 March was both powerful and shallow, a