May 9th, 2008 : For Nargis Cyclone relief, the Donation collecting activity of Myanmar Students Association is started in front of NUT canteen. We collected donations during lunch time between 12:00 to 13:00. All Myanmar students and some foreign students at NUT participated five-day activity from May 9th to 15th in week days.
May 10th, 2008 : The donations collected on Friday (May 9th) is sent to Myanmar volunteer group inside Myanmar to be used in emergency relief. The collected sum is 144,000 JPY (1500,000 Kyats in Myanmar Currency). Our special thanks go to Ma San Yu Khine from Yokohama for collecting donations and coordinating with us. She and her friends contribute 35000 JPY in our first batch transfer of 1,500,000 Kyats.
Local volunteer group distributed a collection of emergency necessities. Each first aid kit includes following things and hand out to each refugee.
1. a blanket
2. a T-shirt
3. rubber slipper
4. a cooking pot
5. a plate
6. a pack of biscuit
7. a can of sardine
8. a short pant
Each pack costs 6705 kyat in Myanmar currency.
May 12-15 : Continue collection activity at NUT canteen with volunteer international students.
May 14th, 2008 : The news of our activity at NUT canteen appears in Niigata Nippo newspaper. link
May 15th, 2008 : With the arrangement of Nagaoka Civic Center; the campaign poster, palmflats and donation box for Myanmar Cyclone are placed at center and started collecting donations. The donation box is admitted to be placed for two weeks and received 11,850 JPY.
May 17th, 2008 : Two NUT Myanmar students joined Niigata JOCV Party on evening and collected donations. We received 14,073 JPY.
May 17-18 : Myanmar students’ donation collecting activities are performed in front of Nagaoka Station on Saturday and Sunday with the support of NUT international students center and Nagaoka Civic Center. NUT international students from NUTISA, Japanese students from Model United Nations activity group, Chinese students from NUT and Nagaoka University joined us.
On Saturday, the group is divided into two groups and collected donations in two places. On Sunday, the group is divided further into four groups to collect donations at Baseball Stadium and at Marathon Competition. The received donation is divided into half: one for Myanmar Cyclone relief and the other for China Earthquake. Therefore, Myanmar Students Association received 260,971 JPY for two days.
