sichuan burma and the western bubble

I've been reading with growing concern in the last few days about the terrible natural disasters in Burma and China. They say that in Burma 78,000 people have been confirmed dead, and in China it is feared that up to 50,000 will have died, while 5,000,000 have been left homeless.

And to be brutally honest, its not the fact that the Burmese government won't let foreign rescue workers in in more than ones and twos that breaks my heart, but the way in which it personally affects me.

That over 100,000 should die within a very short amount of time and that it should not affect me in the slightest.

Granted, I live in a country that is separated from these countries by the ocean and other countries, yet I cannot hear the cry that they let out. I cannot see except for on news websites the damage that it has caused, and I cannot feel the pain that those people are feeling.

And even through all of this, I don't know if there's anything I can actually do for those people. The people who have no house, no family left, what have I got to offer them?