Where your donations will go
Our campaign donations will address 3 main current needs:
- Food
- Medical Services
- Freedom of Press
Our collective activated all our networks inside and outside the country to identify, research and verify trustable channels where to direct this campaign’s funds. We have partnered with local NGOs and individuals on the ground who can help us provide detailed information about your donation journey as well as who are the direct beneficiaries of our financial support.
You are not paying for any salaries or marketing costs. Everyone in AmaAko has not only donated their expertise and time for free but have invested their own money in the marketing of this fundraiser and campaign. Your money goes DIRECTLY to those in need.
Food:
Support the most fragile individuals and families with food and basic needs: 40% of the money raised will go to them.
To show dissent to the military junta and its brutal violence, millions of government and essential workers are on strike. As a consequence, families are going hungry and many families have fled from their homes in response to persecutions. International organizations warn that a hunger crisis is on the horizon. Furthermore, the economy is in disarray and international companies’ withdrawal is leading to increased job losses.
Our Partner: A locally and internationally recognised NGO verified through https://www.isupportmyanmar.com/ with an established network that has been supporting families in need for many years. We are in direct and frequent contact with the founder and manager who have intensified and redesign their efforts during these exceptionally difficult times.
* The organization has asked to remain anonymous at this time as the military junta is cracking down on activism and funds to support any resistance against their control with persecution and arrests.
Medical Services
Assist local organizations to provide emergency medical response to those wounded: 40% of the money we raise will go to them.
Doctors, nurses and ambulance volunteers are targeted and persecuted by the soldiers as they’re considered protesters’ supporters. Public hospitals have been occupied, plundered and just military hospitals are legal at this moment (included sources here).
Our Partner: Myanmar Free Ambulance Organization, which has also established partnerships with other organizations to build a more stable and organized system for medical support and medical workers protection.
- 15 USD = one emergency training for medical frontliners.
- 12 USD = one reusable mask to protect from Covid19
- 18 USD = one tourniquet (tight bands used to stop the blood flow to gunshot wounds)
- 3 USD = food for 5 days for one medical frontline household
- * Funds will also support ambulance equipment, medicine and other sanitary materials according to actual need on-ground.
Freedom of Press
Promote the right of freedom of expression and media coverage of facts: 20% of the money raised will go to them.
Journalists and photographers are another target of the military repression. The junta has declared non-state media illegal and has forced all national and independent media offices to close. Censorship tactics such as interruptions of telecommunication and internet access are preventing journalists and photographers from doing their jobs and exercising their rights of freedom of expression and press. With lack of reliable and unbiased information sources, the population and international communities are in danger of being uninformed of what is happening in Myanmar.
Our Partner: Journalists who have worked for a long time in Myanmar with direct connections within the journalists network in the country. We choose to rely on these individuals, as we can be in direct contact with them to understand the changing needs of the press and how we can support them through the right channels.
- 10 USD = regular SIM top-up for journalists through Thailand
- Distribution of press kits (safety & security information, safety & first aid equipment)
- Medical emergencies for injured journalists and photographer
