Donation For Fire Victims

The Hlaing Ther Yar Fire Victims camp for fire victims has been closed at 12 of March 2008. It was closed officially since March 9. As there were over one thousand homeless fire victims, it was extended to 12 March. The donation was not be able to have carried out when it was stilled opened. The reasons are that late money transfer from Singapore because of decrease in money transfer rate and waiting for foreign donors to transfer money. It was initially planned to have donated on 12 of March, but we did not have a chance to donate as the authorities have shut down the fire victims camp.

With the arrangements by Yangon Western District Peace and Development Council, it was set to donate on March 18. We have received the exact statistic of fire victims and household from Hlaing Ther Yar Township Peace and Development Council. Before the donation day, every night they announced street by street using loudspeakers that Village Peace and Development Council was going to distribute the donated items, under the instruction of Hlaing Ther Yar Township Peace and Development Council.

On March 18 Tuesday, morning 7:30 am, the members and the volunteers from Raven BDC have departed. We arrived to Yay Oakkan market place, where the refugee was existed, for the distribution of donated items. The previously arranged place, No.(16) Basic Education Primary School, did not have enough spaces because of temporary shacks when the refugee was opened. With the helps from council members of the township, we systematically distributed money, clothes, books, eggs, steel spoons in order to make sure that every household has received.

The list of distributed clothes to fire victims and family members were shown as in below.

Household members	Family	Clothes	Total (clothes)
1	102	1	102
2	55	1	55
3	222	2	444
4	333	2	666
5	200	3	600
6	148	3	444
7	150	4	600

A total of 2905 clothes was donated for 1207 families.

Apart from that, (Kyat) 603,500 was donated for 1207 families. Each of which was distributed (Kyat) 500. A thousand of fire victim family were donated over 2000 eggs (Valued Kyat 200,000) where each family received 2 eggs. 600 dozens of books were also donated to them as each family was distributed 6 books.

Bloggers from Yangon also volunteer during distribution of donated itmes. The donation which started at 12:30 pm was finished at 5:30 pm.

What we did were neither to be rich nor famous. It was based on the social morality that to help the needy people. We collect star fish according to the amount we could.

Therefore, we, Raven BDC, were grateful to the donors, friends who collected donation money, buddies, members from Native Myanmar Forum, Wave of Light Organization, Red Cross comrade, the authorities, the volunteers from Raven BDC.