HDFM

On March 28, a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake and subsequent aftershocks struck Myanmar, with Sagaing and Mandalay in central Myanmar being the hardest-hit regions. Amid the ongoing military coup, UN agencies, NGOs/INGOs, and local charities have faced severe restrictions and repression, making it difficult to deliver aid to conflict-affected communities.

Despite international governments and the public striving to provide timely assistance, the military junta continues to suppress relief efforts, prioritizing the preservation of its illegitimate power over the well-being of Myanmar’s people. As the death toll surpasses 2,600 within just three days, many remain missing or trapped under the rubble.

Urgent international support is needed to deliver life-saving aid, including medical treatment, temporary shelter, food, and clean water, to those affected by the disaster.

We encourage you to support these efforts by donating through HDFM today.

HDFM is a US-based 501c3 non-profit organization and member of WHO civil society commission that already has established partnerships with local community organizations in Sagaing and Mandalay to facilitate the efficient and systematic delivery of life saving and humanitarianaids.

Please make a difference by donating to HDFM today via

1. Myanmar Earthquake Relief Fundraising on Gofundme organized by HDFM

2. credit card or paypal on HDFM website ( www.hdfm.org)

3. Zelle to aa@hdfm.org (registered as Humanitarian & Development Foundation for Myanmar, Minot) please write your name and email in memo for receipt.

ကျွန်တော်/ကျွန်မတို့ရဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ မတ်လ ၂၈ ရက်နေ့က အင်အား ရစ်ချက်တာစကေး ၇.၇ အဆင့်ရှိတဲ့ ငလျင်ကြီးနဲ့ ငလျင်ငယ်လေးများ လှုပ်ခတ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အဓိကထိခိုက်ပျက်စီးမှုတွေအနေနဲ့ကတော့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအလယ်ပိုင်း စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းနဲ့ မန္တလေးတိုင်းဒေသတွေမှာ အဆိုးရွားဆုံးဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းခံထားရတဲ့ကာလမှာ ပြည်တွင်းအခြေစိုက်ကုလသမဂ္ဂအဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေ၊ NGO/INGO တွေ၊ သာမက ဒေသခံ ပရဟိတ အဖွဲ့တွေပါ ကန့်သတ်မှုတွေ အဖိနှိပ်ခံရမှုတွေနဲ့ ကြုံတွေ့နေရတာဖြစ်တဲ့အတွက် ငလျင်ဘေးဒဏ်သင့်ပြည်သူတွေကို ကယ်ဆယ်စောင့်ရှောက်ရန် အလွန်တရာ ခက်ခဲသော အခြေအနေမျိုး ရောက်ရှိနေပါတယ်။

ယခုလို ၃ ရက်မြောက်နေ့မှာတင် သေဆုံးသူ ၂၆၀၀ ကျော်ရှိလာတဲ့အနေအထားမှာ ပျောက်ဆုံးနေသူတွေ အပျက်အဆီးတွေကြား ပိတ်မိနေသူတွေများစွာကျန်ရှိနေပါသေးတယ်။ ပြည်သူတွေကို အချိန်မှီကယ်ဆယ်နိုင်ဖို့၊ ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရရှိထားသူတွေကို ကုသပေးနိုင်ဖို့၊ ငလျင်ဒဏ်ကြောင့်အတိဒုက္ခ ခံစားနေရသူတွေအတွက် ယာယီနေစရာ၊ စားစရာ၊ သောက်သုံးရေ နဲ့တခြားသောလိုအပ်ချက်တွေကို ထောက်ပံ့ပေးနိုင်ဖို့ နိုင်ငံတကာပြည်သူတွေရဲ့အကူအညီကို လိုအပ်နေတာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

HDFM အဖွဲ့သည် အမေရိကန်အစိုးရနှင့် WHO အသိအမှတ်ပြု ရရှိထားပြီး စေ့တနာဝန်ထမ်း များဖြင့်ဖွဲ့စည်းထားသော အဖွဲ့အစည်း တစ်ခု ဖြစ်သည့် အားလျှော်စွာ ရရှိလာသော အလှူငွေအားလုံး၏ ၁၀၀ ရာခိုင်နှုန်းကို ငလျင်ဘေးသင့် ပြည်သူများ၏ ကယ်ဆယ်ရေးနှင့် ပြန်လည်ထူထောင်ရေး လုပ်ငန်းများအတွက် အပြည့်အဝ ပေးအပ်လှူဒါန်းသွားမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

- HDFM ၏ Gofundme page မှ သော်လည်းကောင်း

- Zelle ဖြင့် ပေးပို့ လှုဒါန်းလိုပါက aa@hdfm.org မှ တဆင့်

သော်လည်းကောင်း ပါဝင် ကူညီ လှူဒါန်းနိုင်ပါတယ်။

Campaign to Support Medical Workers in Myanmar’s Crisis Through

Humanitarian and Development Foundation for Myanmar

Myanmar lost its democratically-elected leaders and government in February 2021 in a military coup that continues to imprison, torture and kill those officials whose political opposition parties were dissolved. The military continues to arrest all other voices of the opposition calling for democracy among its citizenry. The most prominent of these voices was “Generation Z” who launched street protests for two months before many either fled abroad or to safe areas controlled by various ethnic armies in Myanmar. Much of the early momentum resisting the military coup was led by healthcare workers in urban hospitals, universities, schools and clinics who walked off their jobs and started a civil disobedience movement.

In 2023 the Myanmar military junta - a brutal dictatorship - intensifies and escalates its horrific war against unarmed citizens with air strikes, torching, and battalion attacks targeting schools, churches, villages, towns, clinics and hospitals in locations in rural Myanmar. The UNHCR records that more than 500,000 internally displaced people continue to flee Myanmar military forces. 20,000 have been detained and unofficial estimates put the total death toll of citizens - armed and unarmed - at 15,000 including those tortured and murdered in prison.

A recent shocking example of Myanmar military atrocity and barbarism was an air strike that occurred on April 11, 2023, at the start of the Burmese New Year Holidays. A festival performance by non-combatants at Pazigyi village in the Sagaing region was intentionally targeted and bombed, followed by shootings from military helicopters. 178 people including 40 children were killed. The youngest was 6 months old. The military accused villagers of being “terrorists”.

Additionally, Myanmar Junta launched multiple air strikes at Kayah and Sagaing regions recently.

Medical personnel and volunteers continue to treat casualties in dangerous circumstances all over Myanmar, imperiling their safety and most often without proper medications and supplies. As armed resistance becomes stronger, the military becomes increasingly ruthless and targets more and more civilians, including humanitarian rescue and recovery medical teams. The scarcity of critical care life-saving supports - EKG, X-ray machines or even sterile medical instruments, and pregnancy kits, tourniquets, medications and plasma etc - translates to casualties becoming inevitable fatalities.

Healthcare in rural areas is provided by voluntary healthcare workers who themselves fled from the military. Most healthcare is improvised in abandoned hospitals or makeshift buildings of bamboo and tarpaulin in the jungle with rudimentary medical supplies provided by small donations from local people sympathetic to anti-military sentiment.

International NGOs - MSF, WHO, UNICEF, Save The Children et al - have limited or nonexistent ability to travel outside of large cities to provide care for populations at risk.

HDFM was founded in May 2021 to provide healthcare support where it is needed.

We organize this fundraiser to help our Hero Healthcare Workers who risk their own lives to save others. We want to provide them with medical supplies, equipment, shelter, food, clean water and all necessities to save people's lives who are in desperate need.

Please donate to help those who are so much in need to save people's lives. Thank you so much for your kindness and generosity.

You can make a difference by donating today to HDFM. This donation is tax deductible in the USA. Tax ID 86-3756948.

We are a non-profit organization based in the US. We identify and contribute to transparent and effective community services in Myanmar. To provide humanitarian aid to Medical workers, internally displaced people and refugees food, drinking water, medicine and survival supplies, blankets, clothing and monitory to survive during the crisis.

Article outlining more details:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BZVQaBTAmZtE8m0A7dRph9g3XgJL-nYu/view?usp=sharing

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/patient-killed-as-myanmar-military-airstrike-hits-loikaw-clinic/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/asia/myanmar-sagaing-massacre-children-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

Myanmar is known for its beautiful ethnic diversity and its culture of warm hospitality. More than 135 ethnic groups call Myanmar home. Over 100 languages are spoken throughout the country. Despite the beautiful people and culture, Myanmar has been undergoing a significant humanitarian crisis due to the longest-running civil war in the world.

Since the military coup of 2021, Myanmar has entered a world of chaos and turmoil. Every day, you hear news of more people being affected by the war and conflict across the country. As you watch the video from the comfort of your homes, please think of our brothers and sisters taking shelter in the jungles and what we can do to help them. Through Heal the World, Heal Myanmar, we encourage everyone to join us in this mutual aid to uplift the ones who need us.

Well-respected artists from different ethnic groups across Myanmar have come together to participate in this initiative. On top of this, humanitarian teams across Myanmar have also cooperated in making this rare occasion possible. Through these cooperations and collaborations, we hope to send a harmonious message to the world about what is happening within the borders of Myanmar.

The process took several months amidst the coup and the COVID-19 third wave, resulting in a nationwide outbreak in Myanmar. Due to the current instability in Myanmar, the participants could not gather in one location. Some were displaced from their homes, fleeing from conflict and war, having to record their audio in whatever situation they were in, and some were also affected by the COVID-19 virus. Therefore, this initiative has come about despite many obstacles, thanks to all participants' energy, commitment, and tenacity.

"Heal the World" speaks to the power of putting others first for the good of humanity. We believe this song resonates well with the desires of the Myanmar people. During this pain and grief, we want to remind everyone of the power of compassion and kindness. We only have each other.

Let’s not forget our brothers and sisters who need us.

Let's act with love and care.

Let's take action for their sake and the sake of humanity and harmony.

Heal the World; Heal Myanmar is a non-profit initiative; all participants have voluntarily given their time, efforts, and talents to make this happen. Therefore, all proceeds will be directed towards humanitarian teams involved in this project and providing direct and tangible aid on the ground.

The more we collect, the more we'll be able to help families, children, the elderly and those with special needs.

10$ sanitary pads

25$ hygiene kits

50$ emergency shelter for each family

100$ medicines for family (per month)

150$ food for the family (per month)

300$ community water filtration (for 100 persons)