Marie and her friends have raised £156.91 from her BBQ party for MBEAN. Please get in touch with us for more fundraising ideas.
A big thank you to Dr. N W Thein and all the volunteers from Birmingham Peace Pagoda fundraising event. We have received £2232.00, and this will help us continue our recovery programmes in Burma.
MBEAN inaugurated its early recovery programmes during the third week of May, after two weeks of extensive food and non-food distribution programme, covering 35,000 survivals in 44 villages. From 23 May to 30 June, MBEAN rehabilitated 22 village ponds in 22 different villages, repaired a 9-mile long dyke in Dedaye area, distributing hand-tillers, fertilizer, seeds and diesel to 46 farmers and distributed stationery to 5,003 primary, middle and secondary school students from 28 government schools and 2 monastic schools. MBEAN also continued to distribute rice in Dedaye area. click here for more detail
Time is ticking. Farmers are supposed to be tilling their fields, but they do not have cows or hand-tillers. Seeds were washed away as well. Fishermen are supposed to be out in the rivers and seas fishing. But they have lost their boats and nets.
They do not want to remain victims for long. Let us help them get back on their feet.
I have been watching your progress with the Burma Relief web site very carefully and really admire you for just getting up and organising when the rest of the world just seems to be ummmming and errrring.
"What should be may never come to Burma, but what is still worth saving."
To read a letter from a field volunteer, click here
To read an article by Trevor Wilson, former Australian Ambassador in Burma, click here
Dr Chris van Tulleken (a doctor working for the medical aid agency Merlin) went to the heart of the devastated region to find out how the survivors were coping, and to assess how much aid was getting through. click here to view the video clip.
