Strengthening Humanitarian Crises

Our man in Yangon

It has been a really tough time since news starting breaking of the devestation from the cyclone. Our appeal has been bringing a large amount of money and the management team are now putting pressure on the emergency team to come up with ideas on how to spend it. We luckily made contact with a guy who had volunteered for Inepd as a high street fundraiser and was on holidays. It was great to have a familar accent so that the media had an Inepd voice coming from the field. His first hand accounts have really helped raise our profile. Hopefully Brian will be able now to come up with plans on what is needed and start to organise the initial emergency response. We hope we can get some of the emergency team into action but visas can be tricky. I have to go we have another meeting with the management team and key key staff who are part of crisis team. Kerry our programme oofficer has been doing a great job with the briefings for the team. Brian will also be in on the conference call so that we stay grounded as well as getting that on the ground advice.