Teenager Thant Zin desperately wants to go home – unlike many of the other residents in the relief camp where he's been living for the past fortnight. Problem is, ever since his village was washed away by Cyclone Nargis, there's not much of a home left to return to.

Until a fortnight ago, 14-year-old Thant Zin lived with his family in one of the poorest communities in Yangon. His twin brother would go to work every day to help support the family of eight, while Thant Zin would stay at home, unable to work or go to school because of polio, which he contracted at the age of four.

Today, the teenager and his family live in a relief camp set up at a state-run high school following the passage of Cyclone Nargis. Their neighbourhood, made up of mostly illegally-constructed makeshift huts, has more or less disappeared. “My whole body was soaked with rain when our bamboo hut collapsed,” explained Thant Zin. ''We ate nothing on that day.”

World Vision has provided water, food and shelter kits for people displaced from the area. Many of the survivors are too demoralised to return, despite crowded conditions in the relief camp. But Thant Zin is undaunted. “Here, there are so many people. I'm not able to sleep. I want to go home,” he said.