When Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar in early May 2008, tens of thousands of people were killed and many homes and other buildings leveled. About half of the schools were destroyed in the storm-affected areas in the South, and aid organizations scrambled to help the country rebuild and the children return to school.

Cyclone Nargis flattened villages, knocked out electricity and immersed low-lying regions. An aid worker in Myanmar describes the damage to the country and residents' most pressing needs in this audio slide show.

Protests -- touched off by Buddhist monks -- in Myanmar in the fall of 2007 drew renewed international interest in the country's military regime and the rights of its citizens. View the video of past NewsHour reports about the events.

Track the pathway and impacts of Cyclone Nargis as it careened into Myanmar and took its deadly toll on the residents of the Southeast Asian nation in this Google map.
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