October 2008 Update: Myanmar Relief Efforts
Over the past four months, we have made tremendous progress towards assisting in the recovery from Cyclone Nargis made possible with your generous donations. Although this disaster has faded from the media, the job of rebuilding lives continues to be a challenge.
Along with providing for the most basic needs of simple food, water and temporary shelter, the donated funds have been used for:
- safe shelters for child protection;
- specialty food bars to curb malnutrition;
- critically required antibiotics and other medicines not available in large quantities within the country;
- materials to construct permanent housing; and
- psycho-social support for children and their families.
On August 6th, close to 8,000 lbs of donated medicines and high energy food were successfully air lifted to Yangon from Vancouver with 100% of the goods cleared without interference from government authorities. The value of this shipment exceeded $300,000 CDN.
