Despite the many difficulties working in an isolated country like Myanmar, Operation USA has managed to find partner aid groups--both Burmese and international--to work with.  We are focusing our efforts on providing material resources to those rendering medical assistance on the frontlines in Myanmar--in the Delta, to the areas just outside Yangon and along Myanmar's long border with Thailand where 250,000 refugees have fled. A coordinating body made up of United Nations agencies and private relief groups has been established in Bangkok, Thailand, to assist with logistics and to coordinate aid to various sectors making up the relief effort: medical, shelter, food, agricultural, transport, water & sanitation and education.

The numbers of dead, missing, injured and ill have mounted to nearly "Asian Tsunami levels"--approaching 200,000. Under intense pressure from the world's governments and the United Nations, the Burmese "junta" has yet to fully comply with its own commitment to open the country's borders to aid workers and their supplies.

IMHO & The IMHO Women’s Forum Contribute To Medical Aid For Myanmar
In response to the devastation of Cyclone Nargis, OpUSA receives a donation
in support of medical relief efforts, please click here.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

You can make a donation to our Myanmar relief efforts, by clicking here , or...You can purchase a Von Dutch "Spirit Of Brotherhood" T-Shirt specially designed for Myanmar Cyclone Relief efforts in partnership with Operation USA. To learn more, click here.

To read a recent Field Report from Operation USA's President, Richard Walden, please click here.

Photo: Reuters/Aly Song
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