Myanmar: Pray for help & make a contribution
May 7, 2008 by anandabart
With a possibility of 100,000 dead and one million homeless, the military junta government is not opening up to receive the aid needed. The U.N. is trying to convince them to allow aid workers and necessary food and supplies in.
The ruling Generals have been all but absent in the immediate aftermath (perhaps taking their cue from our president’s approach post-Katrina), and the country is in chaos.
Obviously the consciousness of this ruling party needs to be raised. Let’s pray for the people of Myanmar, and that at the very least, the doors open so aid floods to the homeless and starving. Our thoughts, prayers, intentions, and blessings are vital. Take a moment now to silently send the people there your prayers and for help to reach them.
And for those who can donate, here’s a link to the relief agencies accepting donations:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h3HoHl_XfhgzQcBgXeSa0E03PPnAD90GB69O9
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can you tell me the place of moslem community that need help di myanmar, after teh disaster of cyclone? please tell us immedeatly. tq>>>>>>> eureka
Here are the areas where the Muslim communities live in Myanmar. The cyclone hit in the south traveling up through Yangoon.
There are at least four ethnically distinct Muslim communities in Myanmar, all of which are Sunni. The ethnically Chinese Hui, with roots in Yunnan, dominate much of the cross-border trade in Mandalay and the north. Indian and Pakistani Muslims, who arrived with British colonial rule, are still found all over the country, most evident in Yangon and Mandalay. The ethnically Burman Muslims were converted in the same wave of Indian and Arab traders and scholars that influenced Thailand and Malaysia between the 9th and 14th centuries, and live throughout the central plains. The largest, also the poorest, Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar today is that of the Rohingyas. This struggling community shares both a border and a common cultural heritage with Bangladesh’s Bengali Muslims, and live primarily in Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state.