DanChurchAid
Burma
An ACT situation report on the response to the disaster in Burma.
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“I felt that I had to help,” says one of ten dedicated young Burmese volunteers. These young people are supporting the survivors of Cyclone Nargis in the severely devastated Irrawaddy Delta region and their task is increasingly demanding.
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"Aid is going out everyday, and local
organisations are reaching thousands of people,” says an ACT
member representative. Read more...
organisations are reaching thousands of people,” says an ACT
member representative. Read more...
Survivors are still arriving at relief camps in the Irrawaddy Delta nearly two weeks after Cyclone Nargis hit Burma according to Christian Aid partners.
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Responding to the increasingly critical need for humanitarian relief in Myanmar (Burma), ACT International launched a preliminary appeal today for US $5,156,215 to provide emergency assistance for up to 1.3 million cyclone-affected people.
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Thousands of people have been killed or are missing in Burma in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which pushed ashore on May 2. Villages in the Irrawaddy Delta have been completely flattened. Overall one million people may be homeless. Through 21 relief centres, DanChurchAid’s local partners are reaching 100.000 people.
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Despite roadblocks and bad weather conditions DanChurchAid’s partners are able to gain access to some of the worst hit areas in Burma.
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In the aftermath of the worst Asian cyclone since 1991, members of the global alliance, Action by Churches Together (ACT)International, are mobilising support to assist affected populations in Myanmar. DanChurchAid is a member of ACT International.
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The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) has granted 24 million DKK for DanChurchAid’s HMA programmes in Africa and Asia.
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The destructions after the cyclone Nargis are huge. DanChurchAid’s representative reports from the delta area which was hit most severely and where no one has received any help and where dead people and animals are floating in the rivers
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Bodies are floating in the rivers; desperate survivors are plundering the rice stores; these are some of the stories that are pouring in from disaster struck areas in Burma. So far DanChurchAid has earmarked 750.000 DKK to arrange for food supplies for the disaster in Burma.
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Smashed up houses, broken masts, giant trees strewn across the roads. The damages from the cyclone Nagris are visible everywhere in and around Rangoon, the capital of Burma, where almost 50 percent of all houses are overturned.
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DanChurchAid is pleased to nominate Executive Director Jack Dunford and the staff of Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) for the 2008 Nansen Refugee Award.
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DanChurchAid is monitoring the situation in Burma, where Burmese monks have been protesting against the declining living standards and rising food prices; and demand the resignation of the military regime.
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Refugees from Karen state in Burma are now flocking to camps supported by DanChurchAid in the neighbouring Thailand as the Burma dictatorship’s feared State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) forces are clearing the northern part of the state of people. Their strategy is to starve the population away, destroy their villages and block transport by putting out new land mines.
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