Since the military coup we have provided emergency aid for food, shelter and medicines for ethnic minority villagers who are targeted by the Burmese military and forced to flee their homes. Since the coup, hundreds of thousands of people have been made IDPs (Internally Displaced People) in Myanmar, adding to the thousands of IDPs who were already in the country.
“There are so many IDPs fleeing to the border and we are building bamboo clinics on the border to provide for emergencies.”
Advance Myanmar partner
With the Myanmar military blocking or restricting the UN and international agencies from distributing aid, particularly in remote ethnic areas, the community organisations we work with are the only way to get aid to these populations.
Our humanitarian assistance has helped local organisations provide the following to IDPs and villagers:
- Food and drinking water
- Wells, water tanks and water filters
- Cooking equipment
- Medicine, medical equipment and hospital dormitories
- Dormitories for quarantine for Covid-19
- Shelters, bedding and mosquito nets
- Electricity via solar panels
- Hygiene packs
- Mobile health care and travelling medics to hard to reach areas
This aid has also provided:
- Transportation for aid deliveries and travel between camps and communities for community leaders and health workers
- Communication equipment for activists and people organising the emergency response
