Air drops delivering supplies, for example, can exclude the young, the elderly and persons with disabilities. After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 70 per cent of fatalities in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and 80 per cent of those in Sri Lanka, were women. In 1991, following cyclone Gorky in Bangladesh the majority of those who died were women. Women also accounted for 61 per cent of total deaths during Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008.9 Women are also disadvantaged during relief operations. However, they are rarely passive victims.