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WFR Relief Ministries Isaiah 58:10 if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday |
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Myanmar - Cyclone Nargis - November 2008
08Nov2008 - Feeding and helping some of the Myanmar citizens recover from the terrible cyclone continues and probably will continue for months because of both the devastation and the long-term poverty. Please read Bill McDonough's report of thousands starving and how your contributions are helping feed some. Don Yelton
From: PIPWEM@aol.com Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:10 PM To: PIPWEM@aol.com Subject: Thousands Starving
Rice and Sleeping mats being delivered by Our Burmese co-workers to Cyclone Nargis Victims in Myanmar (Burma)
Our co-workers with School children wearing the rain ponchos they received from you through Partners In Progress
Our co-workers just returned form making their sixth delivery to the area most devastated by Cyclone Nargis. They reported being stopped by starving men who begged them to come to their villages, that six months after the storm have not yet received any aid. Although they had only enough supplies to deliver to the five villages (more then 30000 people) that we have adopted to help they talked to those village leaders and ask them to share what was destined for them, with the two additional starving villages in their area which they agreed to do knowing their own families would suffer by doing so. Sooooo, we took on 2 more villages with an additional 300 people to feed. USA Today reported November 5th that many in the hard hit Irawaddy Delta region where 83,000 were killed and 173,000 are still missing that thousand are starving and that Northern Burma is now also suffering from a terrible rat infestation that has eaten this years crop, leaving Hundreds of thousands more without food. (A Christian brother from that area sent a message to me today, Nov.7, asking for aid for his village.) Partners In Progress is committed to feeding as many of these hungry people as possible and your help is what makes it possible. Please ask your friends, churches and acquaintances to join us in this massive undertaking. Send your check to Burma Relief, P.O. Box 13989, Maumelle, AR 72113, USA or make a contribution on line with your credit card - www.partnersinprogress.org
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