Humanitarian response

By relentlessly attacking civilians, mainly through airstrikes and drone attacks, the Burmese military has caused the worst humanitarian crisis ever in Myanmar.

The military not only indiscriminately attacks civilians, but also continues to block aid deliveries to areas outside their control, doubling their punishment of the people. The only groups with access to the worst affected areas are local civil society organisations and community groups. When Advance Myanmar can support emergency humanitarian aid, we do so through these organisations. Under extremely difficult circumstances, they manage to bring food, medicine and build shelter for their communities. They bring injured people and women with complicated pregnancies to hospitals. They provide education to refugees and they even make sure backpack health workers have boots to be able to trek through the jungle to reach the people most in need. Their work under such horrendous circumstances is heroic and lifesaving.