Hi ,
I was doing logistics stuff last week, but we now have a team of REAL loggies here and they have taken over. My understanding is that ALL our supplies have been received and we have not had anything seized, though I think there may have been a scuffle in the airport I’m not sure it involved us. I heard a similar story about another org. There was one shipment originally consigned to us without notification by an outside org and they did not notify us, but it worked out and we got the goods.

So….the long and short of it is no problems so far. But we are also buying whatever we can here to avoid the issue of the airport, so trying to minimize clearance. I can’t speak for other orgs, but I have not heard of anything major. It seems to be mostly the UN having trouble.

The phones are incredibly difficult these days, even inside Yangon.

I know the media is consumed with the idea of confiscations and frankly I think that is mostly because reporters can’t go to the field to see for themselves the good work happening. So it’s easier and sexier to focus on the rumors and stuff you hear in Yangon.

Hope you are well and glad to hear that you may be sending funds to support local orgs. Just FYI there is a lot of attention to them here and there is a big effort to support them –
they need it!
Thanks again,
Foreign NGO based in Yangon