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Posted by Lisa A. on May 8, 2008, 10:18 pm
If your children are also counting their pennies to help kids in Burma or you know anyone who feels moved to send a donation ... they might appreciate this firsthand information from a momma friend of mine who has family there.
~counting my blessings,
Lisa
In case anybody else's kids are also raising money to help the Burmese
people recover from cyclone Nargis I thought I would forward this from
my sister who has lived in Burma for the last dozen years working for
MSN (Doctors Without Borders), ICRC (International Red Cross), and
translating for Aung San Suu Kyi. My extended family is also sending
money directly to my sister as she has a lot of contacts for getting
supplies to people.
..Siobhan (bhan13 @yahoo.com)
...I am recommending four groups, which you will see in the signature
of this message, with url links. Some groups are soliciting for aid,
which are not really working in the country right now! Of course they
need money to start projects, but I don't think this is the time for
that. The ones I recommend below are already working, and have high
capacity for relief.
I am afraid that the govt way typically does not turn out well.
Typically with all the chaos it is easy to think 'Well, my family is
suffering too..." or to give money first to their favoured groups. In
a study of aid for cyclone relief in Bangladesh in the late 90s, it
was found that only 3% of such aid reached the disaster victims...
--
For those who want to contribute to Nargis relief funds, here are the
organisations which I think can use the money most:
For a local NGO which you can donate to online, I recommend Gitameit,
whose people are already at work in disaster relief (instead of the
usual music). You can also donate to Foundation for the People of
Burma at this site, who will do development and reconstruction later,
as well as relief:
For international NGOs with the highest capacity for working in the
delta, I recommend:
MSF - Holland
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=2656
and CARE
http://www.my.care.org/05/myanmar/?qp_source=170860490000
and Merlin
http://www.merlin.org.uk/Lists/News-Detail.aspx?id=687
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