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More families reached:

We are in regular contact with approximately 25,000 survivors, around Rangoon and in the Delta. We are accessing the delta via privately rented boats; and we are centralizing distribution in target areas outside Rangoon and in the Delta. Daily, our organization grows in effectiveness and our reach expands.

More supplies provided:

We bring rice, water purification tablets, tarps and ropes for shelter, medicine, and sanitary supplies.

Medical Teams in Place:

A network of Burmese medical personnel is working with from bases we’ve established in the Delta. From these bases, volunteers radiate out to remote villages with medical supplies.

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May 15, 2008

You just never know when that 7th grade home sciences course is going to come in handy. Today my 32-year-old Sears Kenmore sewing machine and I embarked on a rainwater-collector prototype sewing project. We’re trying out different designs that are simple to set up once they get to the field. Yesterday, we had a group of church people, a senior monk, several HOPE staff and some miscellaneous friends of HOPE staff, all crammed into office area, gathered around a pile of tarp, brainstorming how to design water collection equipment for the situations they are currently aware of in the Delta. With a prototype in hand, we will quickly get someone else with more appropriate equipment to produce more of these rain collectors.

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