Aid work in Burma

A local temple allocated space for the Red Cross to erect a warehouse in Labutta, San San Mar. From there more than 260,000 households have received emergency assistance: food, shelter kits, blankets and kitchen sets. Photograph: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/PR

Every Red Cross visit to villages in the delta has several purposes, including distributing relief, health education and searching for missing persons. The charity is trying to restore family links by displaying photographs of people who are searching for their relatives. Photograph: Htein Win/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/PR

More than 80,000 households have received shelter materials in the past six months. Here, volunteers erect a temporary shelter. Photograph: Htein Win/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/PR

A new roof to shelter children from the monsoon rains. Photograph: Karl Schuler/PR

Shelter kits and kitchen sets being offloaded from a boat by Red Cross volunteers. Photograph: Htein Win/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/PR

Dr Aung Kyaw Htut helps the relief effort. The British Red Cross raised £1.6m to support the Burma Red Crescent Society which, as a community-based volunteer organisation, was immediately able to begin providing aid. Photograph: British Red Cross/PR

A Red Cross delegate visits an elderly lady who has had to support her three grandchildren. Photograph: Htein Win/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/PR

Myat Thu Rein, a Burma Red Cross Society information officer, says work on rebuilding is beginning in earnest. Over the next two and a half years, the focus for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies will be on restoring livelihoods and the ability of those affected to generate much-needed income. Photograph: British Red Cross/PR

A Burma Red Cross manager in Labutta demonstrates the contents of a cooking set during a relief distribution. Photograph: Htein Win/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/PR

A young girl walks home during a drizzle after receiving clean drinking water from the Red Cross in one of Burma's townships. Photograph: British Red Cross/PR