Aid for Myanmar cyclone victims
Summary
IDE is distributing water storage and treatment, shelter materials, and cash support for food to cyclone victims. Half the funds will be for immediate relief, and half will be reserved for rebuilding.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
IDE Myanmar has operations in practically all of the cyclone-affected areas in the Irrawaddy Delta, and is hence positioned well to provide aid where most needed. IDE has targeted 20 township areas containing an estimated 8,000 -9,000 villages. About 125 staff have been mobilized to work in these areas - approximately six per township. The initial focus will be on providing immediate relief but rebuilding the agricultural and food security systems will receive equal priority and attention.
Activities
Distributing clean water supplies to large groups of homeless survivors; training local groups to set these up themselves; Distributing materials for temporary shelters; providing food and basic necessities to temporary encampments.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $89,755
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $10,245
Total Funding Goal: $100,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Project Message
The magnitude of the crisis here is almost unimaginable. Almost two weeks after the cyclone, hundreds and hundreds of devastated but accessible villages are still without food or shelter.
- Jim Taylor, Director of IDE in Myanmar
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Zenia Tata,
Executive Director and Director of Development
10403 W Colfax Ave
#500
Lakewood, CO 80215
United States
3032324336
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
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IDE (International Development Enterprises) 10403 West Colfax, Suite 500 Lakewood, CO 80215 United States 303.232.4336 http://www.ideorg.org |
Learn more about IDE (International Development Enterprises) and the project team.
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Myanmar
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Myanmar, read the Human Development Report on Myanmar or the Wikipedia entry for Myanmar.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on July 31, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 07, 2008.
Latest Update from the Field
Recent update from Myanmar
By IDE - Myanmar, July 03, 2008 12:05 PM
Here is a recent update from project leaders Jim and Debbie Taylor. You also might be interested in reading the following brief write-up about IDE Myanmar that appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review:
http://www.ssireview.org/opinion/entry/a_new_way_to_respond_to_natural_disasters/
We are now focusing our efforts on helping farm families to recover. The monsoon paddy planting season is upon us now and farmers are desperate for rice seed, tilling help, fertilizer they are anxious to have a crop this season, otherwise they know they will have nothing to eat in the future. We're providing farm families with a package of inputs such as seed, fertilizer, tilling help and etc. that will come out to about $190 per household. For example, it costs $20 to help families prepare their fields, $30 to buy them rice seed that they've lost, and $40 for fertilizer.
Our delivery approach in providing shelter tarps and clean water baskets has been to by-pass the towns and deliver straight to villages. A list of families needing shelter is compiled with the help of village elders and also by visual inspection of homes. We distribute the supplies transparently and fairly, by having a public gathering of all village households, calling up the list of names individually and handing over the tarps directly into the hands of families.
As of 12 June:
-452 villages have been reached by our teams
-32,830 households (175,000 people) have received shelter tarps
-3,387 clean water baskets have been installed, benefiting approximately 350,000 people
We really appreciate your help it has gone directly to providing shelter materials and clean water supply for cyclone victims. The families who receive help are so grateful after receiving a plastic tarpaulin for their roof, they told our staff, "We're going to sleep well tonight!" What an understatement
.they had previously been sleeping under the dripping rain and huddling under coconut palm fronds. Now they want to till their fields and have started to do it by hand! These people are tough and courageous and deserve all of the support in the world.
Best regards,
Jim and Debbie
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