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Posts Tagged ‘Humanitarian Aid’ (18 found)

FBR’s relationship with the Burma Government and an Assessment of the Current Situation in Burma

The situation in Burma is changing, in some case for the better and in others for the worse. In the midst of this FBR continues its mission of giving help, hope and love and putting a light on the situation. In areas where there have been improvements, such as parts of Karen State, some of […]

August 28, 2015  •  By Free Burma Rangers  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

U.S. Government Announces New Increase in Support to World Food Program (WFP) to Help Flood Victims

The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Food for Peace today approved a new contribution of $3 million to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to assist people impacted by devastating floods and heavy rains in Myanmar. Over three thousand, three hundred metric tons of locally procured rice, pulses and salt, along with vegetable oil from the region, will assist people in affected states and regions throughout the country.
Through new and existing activities, the U.S. government will provide over $4.5 million in flood relief and recovery assistance to over 250,000 people impacted by the disaster […]

August 17, 2015  •  By United Nations World Food Program  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Myanmar : Floods Emergency Situation Report (No.4)

Flood situation in BurmaAs of 13 August, the NDMC reports that over 1,350,000 people have been severely affected by floods and landslides in July and August. This includes a cumulative number of over 297,000 households that have been or remain temporarily displaced during this period […]

August 14, 2015  •  By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Myanmar: Floods Emergency Situation Report ( No.3)

Flooding in BurmaAs of 10 August, the National Natural Disaster Management Committee (NDMC) reports that over 1.1 million people have been severely affected by floods and landslides since mid-July. This includes a cumulative number of over 240,000 households that have been or remain temporarily displaced during this period […]

August 13, 2015  •  By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Myanmar: Situation Report No.1 – National Natural Disaster Management Committee

Torrential rain starting from 16 July 2015 in the Northern part of Myanmar and Cyclone Komen that landfall Bengladesh has triggered severe and widespread floods and landslides across twelve states and regions in Myanmar […]

August 10, 2015  •  By United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

လက္ရွိျဖစ္ေပၚေနေသာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္းေရေဘးအႏၱရာယ္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ အရပ္ဖက္လထုအဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ား၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရွိ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တိုင္း (၁၁) ခုတြင္ လက္ရွိ ေရႀကီးေရလွ်ံမႈမ်ား ႀကံဳေတြ႔ေနၿပီး ျပည္သူေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ေရေဘးဒုကၡမ်ား ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရလ်က္ရွိသည္။ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ သတၱပတ္ႏွစ္ပတ္က စတင္ခဲ့ေသာ ေရေဘးဒဏ္ ေၾကာင့္ စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္း၊ ပဲခူးတိုင္း၊ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္း၊ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္၊ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္၊ ရခိုင္ ျပည္နယ္တို႔ရွိ ျပည္သူ လူထုသိန္းႏွင့္ခ်ီ၍ ဒုကၡေရာက္ခဲ့ရၿပီး အေရးေပၚအကူအညီမ်ား လိုေနလ်က္ရွိသည္။ ေရေဘးဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ ဒါဇင္ႏွင့္ ခ်ီေသာလူမ်ား ေသဆံုးေပ်ာက္ဆံုးခဲ့ၿပီး ေျမယာဧက ရွစ္သိန္းေက်ာ္ ထိခိုက္ပ်က္စီးေနေၾကာင္း သတင္းမ်ားရရွိသည္ […]

August 2, 2015  •  By Civil Society Forum  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

MPs Urge Ban Ki-Moon to Negotiate Humanitarian Access to Rakhine State, Burma

Over 50 MPs in the British Parliament have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) (a kind of Parliamentary petition) calling on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to personally lead negotiations for humanitarian access to Rakhine State, Burma. The MPs also call on the British Government to put pressure on the Burmese government to address the root causes of why the Rohingya are fleeing the country […]

July 7, 2015  •  By Burma Campaign UK  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤