Rice to Chin State

Through our local partners, we have learned of an urgent request for 200 rice bags for IDPs who have been forced to flee from 6 villages between Paletwa and Matupi, in Chin State due to heavy fighting between the CDF and military junta forces. Rice bags cost 40,000mmk (around $25 USD). If we can raise $5,000, that will cover this urgent need and save thousands of lives from starvation.

To provide some context, over 230,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes into the jungles and mountains across Myanmar, taking nothing but what they could carry on their backs. They have been out in the jungles for weeks now, starving and forced to subsist on whatever they can find growing. Many have died, and many more are seriously malnourished. They have no way of cooking, no food or utensils to cook with, and no clean drinking water. These are horrible conditions for anyone to have to live in, let alone the elderly and young children.

Our local partners have taken action to alleviate this horror by donating rice, salt, oil, legumes, baby formula and basic cooking utensils to those in the greatest need in remote locations since the start of the coup. However, more and more people are being displaced by the military, and they need your help to keep these brave people from starving.