The United Nations says up to one million people across Myanmar will die unless they receive humanitarian aid. And it has called for a financial package worth hundreds of millions of US dollars to provide it. Dave Grunebaum has more on this harrowing story from the capital, Yangon.

This is an IDP camp in Myanmar's Kachin State for people who've been displaced from their homes, here's a shelter in neighboring Shan State and another IDP camp to the west in Rakhine.

The United Nations says across Myanmar more than 900-thousand people need humanitarian aid to survive.

PIERRE PERON UN OFFICE FOR COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS "These 940-thousand people they need shelter. They need food. They need health services. They need protection."

In Rakhine State there are more than seven-hundred thousand people, including large numbers of Rohingya Muslims, who depend on humanitarian aid. The violence in this region has been widely reported. But less known is the armed conflict in Myanmar's northeast that's displaced more than one-hundred thousand in Kachin and Shan States. A four-month ceasefire recently started in this area. But armed ethnic insurgents have been fighting Myanmar's army here for decades.

PIERRE PERON UN OFFICE FOR COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS "The civilian population in these areas have been deeply, deeply affected. Many of them have had to flee."

Many of them are now living in IDP camps similar to this one. About two-years ago, I met Maran Nu Mai here. She was living with her husband and daughter in a 20 by 10 foot shelter after the armed conflict spread to their village.

Donations from aid groups provided each person in the camp with the equivalent of about seven US dollars per month.

MARAN NU MAI KACHIN IDP "They give us the money but it is not enough."

But in addition to the armed conflicts that have displaced so many people, Myanmar is also prone to natural disasters.

PIERRE PERON UN OFFICE FOR COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS "It's a country that almost annually is affected by floods during the Monsoon season and we always need to be ready to respond to cyclones, and finally there's a large fault line going straight through the country. And along that fault line there's a major risk of large earthquakes."

DAVE GRUNEBAUM YANGON, MYANMAR "The UN is estimating the costs of the total humanitarian effort to exceed 200-million dollars next year. It's hoping countries and corporations will donate the money necessary to provide the help so many people in this country will need. DG, CGTN, YG."