Winter 2025
Supporters Newsletter MYANMAR EARTHQUAKE have died, and approximately 5,000 people have been injured. Actual figures may be much higher due to disrupted communications. Preliminary damage assessments show widespread destruction including approximately 12,000 homes that have been destroyed, and a further 37,000 damaged.
Photo: BBC
When the worst earthquake in 100 years hit Myanmar recently, our global partner, the ACT Alliance was swift to meet with its members working in that area to apply whatever help they could. However, in Myanmar, providing the aid we all want to see for the tens of thousands of those horribly impacted is no easy challenge. Myanmar remains tangled in civil war. Its ruling military junta are reported to have called for a ceasefire following the quake, yet they have continued their attacks on those they deem “rebels”. Of late this is some of what we know: Approximately 3,600 people
Christian Aid (an ACT Alliance partner) is mainly focusing on the most impacted areas in the Northwest of MyanmarMandalay, Sagaing, Nay Pyi Taw and Magway to provide life -saving interventions and emergency response activities from their own emergency fund. But with the massive destruction that has happened in these areas, there are significant unmet needs and the communities require timely emergency responses. While mis-use of aid funds remains a risk we must navigate, we are confident in the unique skills and cultural awareness of our ACT Alliance partners who are driven in their work by the same God we worship through Christ.
Thank you to all those who have given to help the Myanmar earthquake response. Please do pause to pray for those caught in the horrendous aftermath and for our ACT Alliance partners to be able to bring life-giving aid to them.
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INSIDE THIS NEWSLETTER
Myanmar Earthquake ........... 2 Good news for Tonga............. 2 The Mrs Mafi appeal result ... 2 Churches Humanitarian Response Team...................... 3 Is the metric of Smiles a Thing? .................................... 3 Profiling the CWS Chairperson ................................................ 4 Partner for Life & Bequests ... 4 SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST
The recent CWS donor survey is providing wonderful new insight on how we can improve. Helping victims of the Myanmar earthquake remains tricky (Page 2) Cross denomination collaborations point to a more unified way ahead (Page4) We are blessed to have the leadership we do (Page4)
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