I am delighted to inform you all that donations already received have more than surpassed our initial fund raising target of US$25,000 within 24 hours of sending our message out.
We from the Cyclone Nargis Donation Fund want to take this opportunity to convey our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to each and everyone of you who have contributed. This is only the start and I hope throughout the next few days, weeks and months we will be able to portray with our work we are going to put in that this fund and team is one that will make positive differences to the lives of thousands in order for us to continue to be supported by you all.
On Wednesday we had a procurement strategy meeting for this coming weekend.
The spine of the team at this stage consists of
Ko Zaw
Ba Son
Paul
Josh
We have all collectively agreed on the following.
We are to visit 3 towns this weekend. Each town we are going to focus on donating to 1500 victims. We have averaged it out at approx 500 victims which means we will go to 3 schools/hostels in each place so overall we are targeting 4500 victims this weekend. Seeing this will be our first distribution of goods in such volume its going to be interesting to see how things pan out. I am hoping we can get all the goods ready and loaded into our van by Friday. We will start buying the following from Thursday morning.
- Longyi/Sarong (for each male and female) (pictures will also be uploaded)
- Slippers (various sizes) for each male and female and children
- Sheets (to sleep and sit on)
- Medicine (Antibiotics, Band Aid, Spirit, Rehydration Salts)
- Water Guard (this is a formula which you put into dirty water. It then kills all bacteria and makes it safe for the water accessible now to the victims to drink. The small bottle which you see in our pictures can be used to make 220 gallons of water clean, we have ordered 10 no’s of 20 litre bottles (larger) of the same formula which will cleanse upto forty thousand gallons of water per 20 litre bottle)
- Rice Bags. We will take 50kg rice bags with us. We will fix the quantity of rice bags we shall take with us on Thursday. Some places we are going we need to hire a boat and we are also calculating weight limitations for these boats.
We are also delighted to announce that a local company has contributed to the funds by providing a container truck and driver which we shall use to transport our goods. The plan at the moment is for a party of approx 15-20 people will travel this weekend. Will keep you updated with progress.
Any questions pls let us know.
Sincerely
Nargis Donation Fund
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