Let's Help the Burmese!
Donation Update

Transferred to relief organizations: 122 712 CZK.
Account balance of donations 47 221 CZK.
Donors' SMS sent: 2226 (60 102 CZK).

Thanks to your support we managed to collect the first 100 000 CZK (incl. SMS) in only 6 weeks.
The famine in Burma continues. Please help us now to collect 300 000 CZK.

We are 57 % of the way to our goal. Thank you!
57 %
Note: Figures show the latest available information. Final data may slightly differ. The money raised by SMS will automatically be transfered to the bank account and included into the total sum step-by-step with several weeks delay.

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»Václav Havel

Famine has broken out in the hard-to-reach, extremely poor areas of Burma on the border with Bangladesh and India, and there are two main reasons why.

The underlying cause is the targeted genocide being performed by the governing military junta there, as soldiers murder, torture and rape women and children, deport regime opponents into forced labor, confiscate land, and enforce tithing and disproportionate taxation.

rats

The other cause of the famine is the natural growth cycle in the bamboo and rat populations. In 2007, a specific kind of bamboo began to bloom in the area, which was gradually overwhelmed by hordes of rats. This is a natural phenomenon which takes place once every 50 years. The bamboo bears a fruit that provides plentiful nutrition to the forest rats, which multiply exponentially, overwhelming the area and liquidating the crops and food stores of the villagers. Thousands of acres of arable land have already been destroyed. It takes five years for the vegetation to recover and for the villagers to be able to sow their fields again.

Chin Children
Chin Children

The impact of the famine is catastrophic. As many as 200 villages are affected, home to more than 100 000 Burmese of the Chin ethnicity, who are dying of hunger and malnutrition. Hundreds of families have left their villages and are heading for the Indian border to find food and work; in some villages, only the elderly and infirm remain, and more large-scale migration is expected. Chin self-help organizations are doing their best to ameliorate the results of the famine, but according to a report by the Chin Human Rights Organization, only 10 % of the victims are receiving the aid the need. The Burmese military government is ignoring the suffering.




Let's help the Burmese survive the remaining three years of the famine!

Their government will not help them and they cannot help themselves. Let's help provide rice and medicine to the starving from the Indian side of the border. Here is how to join the POMOZME BARMÁNCŮM fundraising drive:

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The funds raised through this collection will be used to purchase and distribute food aid (especially rice and food supplements) and medical aid (particularly medicines, vitamins and basic medical supplies) and to purchase and distribute seed.

Map of Burma with Chin State
Map of Burma with Chin State (click to enlarge)

We will perform the purchase and distribution of the food and medicines needed on the Indian side of the border in cooperation with the Chin Famine Emergency Relief Committee and the Chin Human Rights Organization, both Chin self-help organizations which permanently monitor the affected area and are establishing centers and distribution channels for delivering aid at the Burmese border.


Further Information Sources

If you like to learn more about the situation of the Chin population in affected areas, we recommend the following reports:

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