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Myanmar (Burma) was hit hard by cyclone Nargis on May 3, 2008. It was the worst natural disaster in East Asia since the tsunami of 2004. Most of the 25,000 known deaths occurred in the southern Irrawaddy river delta region. Unofficial estimates put the deaths at 100.000+.

Officials said the majority of people were killed by a tidal surge 12 ft (3.5m) high. Towns in the Irrawaddy delta were completely flooded and approximately 1,5 million people were made homeless. The old capital Rangoon was without electricity and received enormous damage to is infrastructure.


Our partner organization, AMURT, had volunteer teams on the ground and sent in overseas experts and coordinators. In the first phase distribution of food and medicine was AMURT's immediate priority. AMURT's tried and tested system of making assessment on a family by family basis effectively identified the most vulnerable sectors of the society.


Foundation Emanuele Antola granted a Microdonation to finance the distribution of school uniforms by AMURT to the children affected by the May 3rd, 2008 Cyclone in Myanmar (Burma).


Below is the letter received from the Project Manager.

AMURT continues to work in the area and we are still accepting donations to our Bank Account or online by clicking on the button below.


Donations in Swiss Francs

Myanmar Cyclone Update - II

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We have received the following good news from our partner organization, AMURT, who is working in Myanmar (Burma).
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G o o d N e w s R e p o r t


AMURT and AMURTEL Burma Response

Monday, 2 June 2008

Our MASS DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD ITEMS is in full swing. The food insecurity in the Delta is continuing. In spite of regular deliveries by some organizations along the main roads, there are innumerable pockets of villages that are so remote that they never received any aid.


For food distribution, AMURT operates as a wellwisher (donor) through local individuals and community groups that we know and trust. We purchase the food items (rice, pulses, cooking oil, molasse and salt) in bulk quantities which are then rationed into family-size bags.

These food packages are then passed on to our trusted local friends who do the distribution. Foreigners are still not allowed to go to the cyclone-hit delta areas.

Our priority is to tackle the villages that are logistically challenging to reach. Our distribution teams have to negotiate small side rivers within the Delta area to reach out to very poor communities. So far, we have been supplying food to the people in 4 districts townships (Kungyangon, Dedaye, Kyaiklat and Pyapon).

To date, our local distributors have transported by land and by sea approximately:

· 180 metric tons of relief items;

· to 12 communities;

· for 3,380 families, i.e. 18,000 + beneficiaries;

· at a cost of 27,000 USD.

By God’s grace, they have never had any trouble at the military check-points. The trucks travel with many security guards - 17 in total - so the question of confiscation does not arise!

Abha Seva Sadan Multitherapy Charitable Health Centre

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The project was a recipient of a Micro-donation from the Foundation Emanuele Antola in the year 2007. We were very happy with what they are doing and we plan to continue supporting it in the year 2009. You can donate to this project or if you have medical skills you are welcome there as a volunteer.

1. Project Description:

A charitable rural health care project, combining multi-disciplinary conventional and alternative medical outpatient services with health education programmes in the villages of the community.

2. Area where it is located:

In the state of Jharkhand in northeastern India, close to the border to W. Bengal. This rural region is amongst the most neglected and underdeveloped in India. The project is 15 km outside of Bokaro Steel City, an industrial town, from which it has good access via a connecting large road.

3. Project History:

The project started in April 2005 with the purchase of 0.9 acres of undeveloped land. During the following weeks several medical camps were held on the land using tents. Within 2 months a small temporary clinic building was constructed, so that regular outpatient services could commence in acupuncture, homeopathy and allopathy (Western medicine). Due to financial limitations, until present acupuncture is held 3 days a week, homeopathy 5 days a week and allopathy one day a week.
In August 2005 water hygiene programmes were started in the surrounding villages, which have continued in regular intervalls until present: the villagers are shown how to disinfect their drinking well water cheaply and effectively using bleaching powder (chlorine), and how to kill breeding parasites by spraying diluted phenyl into stagnant water areas.

Sunshine School - Katmandu, Nepal

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The Sunshine School is an official private school that currently teaches around 100 pupils from poor backgrounds for free. This is possible, thanks to generous financial contributions and an enormous engagement from several people all over the world.

Foundation Emanuele Antola has included the school in its Micro-donation program and granted it CHF 1,200 (approximately US$1,000) in December 2007. The project is sponsored by the association "Sunshine School" of Switzerland. Check the website www.sunshine-school.ch for further information.




School, Medininagar, India

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The school was opened last year in a extremely poor area of India. There are 80 students in two classes. Volunteers of AMURT visit that area every year to hold medical camps and distribute blankets and clothes in winter. Presently the school is running in a house. The school building is under construction. The most urgent work is the roof. Below is the budget to complete the school building:

- Present uncompleted School Building (20' x 50')

BUDGET FOR ROOF CONSTRUCTION - Amounts in Rupees - US$1 = approximately Rps.38

Tata metal roof sheet- 50,000
Iron pipe- 20,000 ( 50 rupees/feet
nuts and bolts 1300
Washers 300
Cement 6900 ( 230 rupees/packet----30 packet we need
Sand 2000 ( 4 trucks), 500 rs / trucks
Brick 2000 ( 1 truck),some bricks already available
Head worker 7500 ( 150 /day ) for 15 days
Labor 1500 ( 100/day ) for 15 days
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Total 91,500/- - Approximately US$2,500

Prepared by:
Dinesh Kumar and Ramlakhan Singh
UBP, Satbarwa
Palamau, Jharkhand

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