Direct donation for the Burmese cyclone relief effort
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Rainbow Vogt
May 15, 2008, 9:25:32 PM5/15/08
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Dearest Friends,
One of my roommates during a meditation course I recently took is Burmese. She lives in Thailand and is delivering aid in Burma. This is an email I just received from Phyuthwe:
A group of friends from NY and BKK are raising funds, I am buying supplies here and my husband group is distributing them in hard hit areas. He came back 2 days ago and he left again this afternoon. I am going there this Sat. Because we are burmese we are able to go to restricted areas for aid workers. If you like to help please visit our blog site and forward anyone who can help the victimes. I am updating everyday with all all the details, from funds raised to what we buy and where we donated
Thank you for your support.
Our blogsite: moegyo.blogspot.com
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Another organization providing relieve is Avaaz (http://www.avaaz.org/en/). Here is their alert requesting assistance:
Dear friends,
In the wake of a massive cyclone, at least 22,000 Burmese are dead. More than 40,000 are missing, a million homeless.
But what's happening in Burma is not just a natural disaster - it's also a catastrophe of bad leadership. Burma's military junta failed to warn the people, failed to evacuate them, and suppressed communications so that Burmese people didn't know the storm was coming when the rest of the world did.
Aid is urgently needed, but Burma's regime could easily delay, divert or misuse it. Today the International Burmese Monks Organization launched a new effort to provide relief through Burma's powerful grassroots network of monasteries--the most trusted institutions in the country and currently the only source of housing and support in many devastated communities. The monks are already on the front lines of the aid effort – housing, feeding, and supporting the victims of the cyclone since the day it struck. Click here now to give them a donation.
For more information about Avaaz's work with the Burmese people, go here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/
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Taken from my blog (http://ididitanddugit.blogspot.com/)
Much love and many thanks for your assistance,
Rainbow
One of my roommates during a meditation course I recently took is Burmese. She lives in Thailand and is delivering aid in Burma. This is an email I just received from Phyuthwe:
A group of friends from NY and BKK are raising funds, I am buying supplies here and my husband group is distributing them in hard hit areas. He came back 2 days ago and he left again this afternoon. I am going there this Sat. Because we are burmese we are able to go to restricted areas for aid workers. If you like to help please visit our blog site and forward anyone who can help the victimes. I am updating everyday with all all the details, from funds raised to what we buy and where we donated
Thank you for your support.
Our blogsite: moegyo.blogspot.com
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Another organization providing relieve is Avaaz (http://www.avaaz.org/en/). Here is their alert requesting assistance:
Dear friends,
In the wake of a massive cyclone, at least 22,000 Burmese are dead. More than 40,000 are missing, a million homeless.
But what's happening in Burma is not just a natural disaster - it's also a catastrophe of bad leadership. Burma's military junta failed to warn the people, failed to evacuate them, and suppressed communications so that Burmese people didn't know the storm was coming when the rest of the world did.
Aid is urgently needed, but Burma's regime could easily delay, divert or misuse it. Today the International Burmese Monks Organization launched a new effort to provide relief through Burma's powerful grassroots network of monasteries--the most trusted institutions in the country and currently the only source of housing and support in many devastated communities. The monks are already on the front lines of the aid effort – housing, feeding, and supporting the victims of the cyclone since the day it struck. Click here now to give them a donation.
For more information about Avaaz's work with the Burmese people, go here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/
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Taken from my blog (http://ididitanddugit.blogspot.com/)
Much love and many thanks for your assistance,
Rainbow
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