The office of Student Affairs sent an email informing the NUS community about fund-raising efforts by students from the NUSSU Volunteer Actions Committee (NVAC), for the Myanmar Cyclone Nargis victims. This is being conducted as part of Project Nargis, “a community service network set up by student volunteers from NUS Project Pinnya Tazaung Myanmar, Operation Nargis, the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) and the Singapore Management University (SMU).”
The project which runs from May to July 2008 intends to “procure and deliver much needed supplies to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in the fastest and most efficient way possible, and build the foundation for long term reconstruction projects in future.”
“Our Burmese volunteers have gone back to Yangon and are currently working with other UK, US and local Burmese volunteers to buy, deliver and distribute food, water and medical supplies to people in various townships in the Yangon and Irrawaddy Divisions. Each township has about two to three thousand people and we are only acting as a temporary food and water provider in the townships where we are working until there is a regular flow of supplies from larger aid agencies.
Thus far, we have distributed emergency aid items to six townships in Yangon division and are facing shortage of funds which could forestall our efforts significantly.”
More about Project Nargis at projectnargis.uni.cc.
Fundraising Booths in NUS
Fundraising Booths will be set up from 10am to 2pm to collect donations in cash and cheque at the
- entrance of Central Library
- Arts Canteen
- Business Canteen
- Science Foyer (Outside LT 27)
Remaining dates:
- Monday 26th May 2008
- Tuesday 27th May 2008
