Aid delivered to communities in Maungtaw Township

January 31, 2017

The Muslims For Peace Foundation, a Bangkok, Thailand-based NGO, donated cash and provisions to both communities in Maungtaw Township, Rakhine State.

Mr Waraponkhuntali and Mr Viraponsontardo, members of the Muslims for Peace Foundation, donated Ks2 million to the authorities concerned from the Office of the Rakhine State Cabinet on Monday for the national people in Maungtaw Township and 300 bags of rice to the village elders for Tat Oo Chaung, Ducheradan and Gorduthara village-tracts in Mauntaw Township.

“Our group is a non-governmental organisation. This is the first time we have donated to the Maungtaw Township. We provided aid to both communities, arranging to donate further,” Mr Waraponkhuntali said.

U Tin Aung, village administrator of the Gorduthara (South) said: “Provisions will be divided equally according to the members of the family household. We thank you for such a donation. Now our villages will become stable and peaceful.”

Aid from Indonesia flows into villages

Meanwhile, humanitarian aid from Indonesian government arrived Sittway, Rakhine State on 21st January for communities in northern Rakhine State were delivered to both communities yesterday.

Seven teams formed and started to deliver the aid to the peoples in five districts on 27th January and have distributed aid to 99,168 from 10,575 households from 52 villages in 24 village-tracts so far.

Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement and the Chief Minister of the Rakhine State Government accepted the aid including 9,000 boxes of dried noodles, 3,220 bags of flour, 1,050 boxes of biscuit and 50 bags of clothing on 21st January in Sittway, Rakhine State.

Under the arrangement of the Rakhine State Government, the aid is being delivered to the people in Sittway, Myauk-U, Kyaukpyu and Thandwe districts.

Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar