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Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar on 2 and 3 May 2008 leaving around 140,000 people dead or missing. More than 2.4 million people were severely affected. Global Hand sees the ongoing need and is committed to playing our part, even after the initial response has slowed down.

Responding to Emergencies with Appropriateness, Coordination and Timeliness.

If you have information to contribute, or if you need information you cannot find here, please let us know at enquiries@globalhand.org.

“Partnerships between humanitarian actors and private sector companies should be developed in which the core competencies of both parties are valued and leveraged. Though financial contributions may sometimes be easier for humanitarian actors to accept and use, humanitarian action would benefit significantly from access to the expertise, resources, and global, regional, and local networks of the private sector.”

[Source: WEF/OCHA Guiding Principles for Public-Private Collaboration for Humanitarian Action]

PARTNERING OPPORTUNITIES

Several organisations within the Global Hand community and beyond have responded to this situation. Those indicated below with a [*] are Global Hand verified NGOs.

• Action contre la Faim
• ActionAid
• Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA)[*]
• Aide Médicale Internationale
• Air Serv International
• American Friends Service Committee
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• American Jewish World Service
• American Refugee Committee
• American Red Cross
• AmeriCares
• Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team
• Asia Transpacific Foundation
• Association Medical Franco-Asiatique
• Austcare
• Baptist World Aid Australia [*]
• Baptist World Alliance
• Barnabus Fund
• Bright Hope International[*]
• CARE
• Caritas Internationalis
• Catholic Relief Services
• CHF International
• China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation[*]
• Christian Aid
• Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
• Church World Service
• Comite de Secours Internationaux
• Community Partners International
• Convoy of Hope [*]
• DanChurchAid
• David McAntony Gibson Foundation
• Deutsche Welthungerhilfe
• Diakonie Emergency Aid
• Direct Relief International
• Episcopal Relief and Development
• Feed the Children[*]
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Food for the Hungry International [*]
• Giving Children Hope
• Global Aid Network – GAiN Australia [*]
• Global Giving
• Global Hope Network International [*]
• Habitat for Humanity International
• Hands on Disaster Response
• HelpAge International
• Hidaya Foundation
• Humanitarian & Emergency Logistics Professionals – HELP Forum of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport
• Humedica [*]
• International Development Enterprises
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• International Medical Corps
• International Relief & Development
• International Rescue Committee
• Johanniter International Assistance
• Lutheran World Relief
• Malteser International
• MAP International
• Médecins Sans Frontières
• Medical Teams International
• Mercy Corps [*]
• Medical Emergency Relief International
• Muslim Aid
• Myanmar Burma Relief Organisation
• Norwegian People’s Aid
• Operation Blessing International [*]
• Operation USA
• Orphan’s Hope
• Oxfam
• Pact
• Partners Relief & Development
• People In Need
• Polish Humanitarian Organisation
• Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions
• Population Services International
• Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
• Project HOPE
• Relief International
• Rotary International[*]
• Salvation Army World Service Office
• Samaritan’s Purse
• Save the Children
• TearFund Schweiz
• Terre des Hommes Italia
• The Rescue Task Force
• Thirst-Aid
• Tzu Chi Foundation?
• Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
• United Methodist Committee on Relief
• United Nations Children Fund
• United Nations Development Programme
• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• United Nations Population Fund
• World Concern
• World Emergency Relief UK [*]
• World Food Programme
• World Harvest [*]
• World Health Organization
• World Vision [*]

DONORS

Would you like to donate to NGOs who are responding to this crisis?

You are welcome to place an offer of freight, human resources, funding or goods on the Global Hand site. Validated Global Hand members will be able to respond to your offer and use it in an appropriate and responsible manner. Please indicate in the description of your offer that you would like to respond to the cyclone in Myanmar.

LONGER TERM NEEDS:

• Financial donations: to donate, fill out the form and we will seek to connect you for fuller discussion of the question in hand
• Reconstruction services, health services and educational services
• Livelihood and income generation schemes
• Health kits, medicines and medical supplies, esp. for malaria and diarrhea; family household kits (containing cooking and cleaning implements, tools, torches, and jerry cans); generators; insecticide-treated bed nets and blankets; fishing boats and agricultural assistance including livestock

Click here to offer freight, human resources, funding or goods

Would you like further information?
Click here to see questions we are frequently asked by donors.

CUSTOMS REGULATIONS

Please visit the website of the Logistics Cluster for information regarding Customs and Logistics for the situation in Myanmar.

FOR YOUR REFERENCE

Further links you may find helpful for the Myanmar crisis.

• Global Hand guide for community groups
  Global Hand has produced a guide to help community groups respond to disaster with appropriate action.
• Action contre la Faim
  Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene Disaster Risk Reduction Assessment.
• Alertnet
  Reuters humanitarian news website which contains regularly updated information regarding the current humanitarian situation in Myanmar.
• BurmaNet
  An online news service covering Myanmar.
• Center for International Disaster Information
  Website provides information and guidance in support of international relief operations.
• Direct Relief International (DRI)/Google Lat Long Blog
  DRI plotted all of the Myanmar Ministry of Health facilities (over 700 sites) using data from the WHO 2002 Global Health Atlas [WHO 2002 Global Health Atlas survey] survey. They utilized Google Earth’s Spreadsheet Mapper tool to quickly create placemarks.
• Interaction Members responding
  Interaction members accepting contributions for assistance they or their affiliates are providing to those affected by the cyclone in Myanmar.
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  Website provides information concerning IFRC humanitarian activities in respect to Myanmar.
• ReliefWeb
  ReliefWeb is a United Nations website providing information to humanitarian relief organisations. Updated daily, the website includes press releases, policy documents and situation reports regarding current disasters.
• ReliefWeb Map Centre
  United Nations website containing detailed maps of the cyclone-affected region of Myanmar.
• WHO Communicable Disease Risk Assessment and Interventions: Cyclone Nargis-Myanmar
  PDF document providing up-to-date technical guidance on the major communicable disease threats faced by the cyclone-affected population in Myanmar.
• WEF/OCHA Guiding Principles for Public-Private Collaboration for Humanitarian Action
  The World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have devised this set of principles to guide public-private collaboration for humanitarian action (disaster response).

Would you like to contact us?
If you would like to discuss a response to the Myanmar cyclone further, feel free to contact us:

Email:
enquiries@globalhand.org

Phone:
+852 2272 9390 for Hong Kong office, HQ (Katey Kenworthy)
+44 7792 419903 for UK office (Ben Solanky)