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Devastated by Cyclone Nargis |
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
 When Mother Earth
Felt her wrath
She punished not only those who hurt her;
But innocents who had yet to live
Innocents who had yet to learn
Innocents…
Children.
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Dear Friends,
The 26th of May, 2006, was the day that biru peduli’s cause came into existence: a magnitude 6.3 earthquake rippled through Yogyakarta and surrounding areas, killing 6 000 and adversely affecting many more. Some of the 1.6 million homeless were helped by yourselves through biru peduli. You can all see, two years on, how our Adopt-a-Student program provides long term support for the continuation of children’s education.
Now we are once again asking for your help.
 April 27 to May 3, 2008. Cyclone Nargis swept in from the Bay of Bengal, heading straight for Burma (Myanmar); it decimated large areas of coastal provinces, destroying all in its path and barely sparing the major city of Yangon (Rangoon). The death toll is reported to be between 80 000 and 100 000, and at least 56 000 missing. 2 to 3 million are homeless. State television in the town of Labutta, where the damage was horrifically high, reported that 75 percent of the houses in the area had collapsed, and 25 percent had their roofs blown off. The UN has stated that 1.5 million people have been affected by Nargis’ destructive wake.
Think about it.
 56 000 missing. Between 80 000 and 100 000 dead. Houses crushed, collapsed, crumbling into wooden slats and muddied tiles. It would be impossible to even guess at the number of orphans and single-parent families Nargis has tragically created. A vast majority of these children are facing an uncertain future; with one or both parents taken by the water, school is not an option. They must work to support themselves, siblings, or extended family. They need our help.
Moved by the disaster so close to home, and so alike to the one that created it, biru peduli has decided to expand their Adopt-A-Student program to include Burma’s new victims of an unpredictable Mother Nature. Largely initiated by Burmese and Burma-based members of the community, namely Aung Kyaw Min, Tin Han, and Sybilla, and the cooperation of third-party orphanages in the affected country, we are appealing to the Friends of biru peduli to donate and to support the orphans of Burma.
We have made the impossible possible before; why can we not achieve it again? The Adopt-a-Student program has been keeping the hope alive for children orphaned by the Indonesian earthquake. Now it is time to light the candle of the children in Burma.
Your support for our programs so far has been tremendously generous, and much appreciated. Now we are once again “knocking on your door” for aid, resources, and kind hearts. Will we sit quietly, and stay impassively watching the news?
No, we won’t. We are very fortunate indeed. A little of our fortune would go a long way in allowing the children of Burma to build their future, on their own terms.
Let’s help them.
Let’s do it.
Thank you, friends.
Sincerely,
Aung Kyaw Min and Ahmad Yuniarto for biru peduli
For donation, plesae use the following options:
1. Use secure PayPal facility (contact Kamal Jansen at
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2. Contact Ahmad Yuniarto (
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)f or bank transfer/Western Union/Credit Union arrangement.
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