Filed under: Events, International Response, Uncategorized | Tags: french, humanitarian intervention, international campaign for burma
From International Campaign for Burma:
<<We, as ordinary citizens of Burma, welcome French government for
immediate humanitarian intervention on behalf of millions of starving
cyclone survivors.
You are cordially invited to join us demonstrating our support in
front of Consulate General of France as follows:-
Place : Consulate General of France
934 Fifth Avenue
(between 74th and 75th Streets)
New York, NY 10021
Date : May 24, 2008 Saturday
Time : 2 – 4pm
Direction: Take “6″ Train and get off 77th street.>>
–Karen
Filed under: Death Toll and missing, International Response, Latest News, Uncategorized | Tags: bbc, burma pledge, cyclone nargis, irawaddy delta, world food programme
Cautious response to Burma pledge
BBC NEWS
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Aid agencies have given a cautious welcome to the announcement that Burma’s leaders will allow all foreign relief workers into cyclone-hit areas.
The UN’s World Food Programme said the real test was whether its workers would be allowed to leave Rangoon for the devastated southern Irrawaddy Delta.
About 78,000 people died and 56,000 are missing after the 2 May cyclone.
Meanwhile, the polls have opened in the final stage of a controversial referendum on a new constitution.
Read the full article here.
–Divya
Filed under: International Response, Latest News, Uncategorized | Tags: irrawaddy delta, john heilprin, naypyitaw, united nations
Myanmar to allow foreign aid
U.N. chief says Myanmar yields on international aid workers, but not on military help.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday, May 24, 2008
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s ruling junta said Friday it will let foreign aid workers and commercial ships help survivors in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta, but it refused to relent on accepting aid from U.S., French and British military ships.
The naval ships, almost within sight of the coast for more than a week, offer a potential boost to the aid effort because they can send helicopters to the hardest-to-reach spots.
The military regime told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday that all aid workers would be let into the country as long as it was clear what they were doing and how long they would remain.
Read full article here.
–Divya
Filed under: Donations, International Response, Latest News, Resources, Uncategorized | Tags: Burmese American Association of Texas, Donations, Indo-American organizations
(Via Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Students, Columbia Journalism School)
ASSISTANCE TO MYANMAR (BURMA) CYCLONE RELIEF:
Indo-American organization leaders in Houston met with members of Burmese American Association of Texas (BAAT) to discuss specific ways to provide assistance to cyclone victims at Madras Pavilion Sugar Land on May 19th 2008.
Options for donations are as follows:
- Donations by Credit Cards, go to www.baatx.org
(Online donations are processed by a secure site) - Donations by phone, please call AAFS staff at 713-339-3688
(9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.) - Donations by Cash/Check, please mail to:
Burmese American Association of Texas (BAAT)
P.O. Box 3359
Sugar Land, Texas 77487
Payable to: BAAT Memo: Myanmar Cyclone Relief Fund
For more information contact us at baat.hou@gmail.com
Contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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–Divya
Filed under: Events, International Response, Resources, Uncategorized | Tags: china, global giving, mymr burma fundraiser, sichuan earthquake
(Via Myra Dahgaypaw who works for the Burmese government-in-exile or NCGUB)
This event (part awareness and part concert) is already over unfortunately but it might still be helpful to know that it happened. Click on image to learn more.
–Divya
