Our third transferred donations are being used in Nargis reconstruction work.
Following is a brief description of the village being reconstructed with our donations.
Village : Sait Ka Lay
Village Tract : Tha Byu Gone
Single Budget Huts: 38
Net Value: 4,000,000 Kyats (368,525 JPY)
Following is snippet of email from Local Volunteer describing about project completion.
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ အဖြဲ႕ရဲ႕ အိမ္ေဆာက္လုပ္ျခင္း လုပ္ငန္းေတြကို ရပ္နားခဲ့ပါၿပီ။ [...]
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On June 7, 2008, we transferred our collected donations channeled through Myanmar Cyclone Relief to our volunteer group (Handy Myanmar Youths) in Labutta, Myanmar. The transferred amount is JPY 298,125 (3,100,000 Kyats in Myanmar Currency) and this is the second batch transfer of collected donations. This transferred donations is being used in Budget Hut Plan.
Following [...]
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The Associated Press News stated about the Myanmar Cyclone Relief activity of the volunteer group we are working with.
LABUTTA, Myanmar (AP) — Bloggers may find their messages blocked by Myanmar’s military regime, but that hasn’t stopped Nyi Lynn Seck from raising tens of thousands of dollars for cyclone survivors through his website.
Now, the 29-year-old IT [...]
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On the evening of May 24th 2008, Myanmar students from Nagaoka University of Technlogy enjoyed Asean Japan Night festival at International University of Japan (IUJ) in Urasa. We went there right after Cyclone relief Donation collection activity around Nagaoka Station. There, nine Asean countries’ and Japan’s traditional food are offered in absolutely free of charge. [...]
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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, [...]
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The following is the translation of “Budget Huts Plan” post from our local volunteer blog. It’s a good recount of an aid worker’s experience and his on-ground thinking. The original post is written in Myanmar language and it is translated into English by MOEGYO Humanitarian Foundation and post in their blog. Great credit goes [...]
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Our local volunteer group (Handy Myanmar Youths) went to Betoot Villiages (1hour away from LapPuTar City) on May 19, 2008 and donated the first aid kits for 500 people. There were 12 Small Villiages in Beetoot.
Each first aid kit includes following stuff and hand out to each refugee.
a blanket
a T-shirt
rubber slipper
a cooking pot
a plate
a pack [...]
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