Israel is helping Myanmar build a school and provide healthcare services in the country's cyclone- hit areas, the local weekly 7-Day News reported Wednesday.
With the donation of Israeli wellwishers, the Israel Red Cross is building a school in a storm-hit area in Ayeyawaddy division which will be handed over to the Myanmar education authorities on completion, the report quoted the Israeli embassy in Myanmar as saying, Xinhua reported.
Israel will also send eye specialists to the area to help cure related patients in the cyclone-hit division, it said, adding that cooperation in the economic sector including technology and communication as well as the private business sector will also be sought.
Myanmar has been sending more than 100 agricultural workers to Israel annually since 2003 to undergo agricultural diploma training under the two countries' bilateral cooperation program funded by Israel.
The Myanmar trainees were dispatched to Israel's International Center for Agriculture Training and Granot-International Center for Agriculture Interns, the Israeli diplomatic sources said.
The diploma programs on agriculture cover such subjects as advanced farming techniques, economics, marketing, post-harvest technology, animal husbandry and computer use.
So far, more than 1,000 of them have been awarded diplomas in the fields since then.