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A Call for Help for Burmese Orphans



Burmese Relief Center?Japan has just been asked to help over two hundred
orphans now staying in a Buddhist monastery in the KNU Sixth Brigade area
who urgently need assistance.

These children, ethnic Karen, Burman, and Tavoyan, have lost their parents
in fighting between the KNU and the Burmese army or to diseases which are
endemic in the area, especially malaria.   

The abbot of the monastery doesn't discriminate between Karen or Burman, KNU
or DKBO.  Although he can offer the orphans adequate shelter, he stresses
that their condition is pitiful.  Providing them with sufficient food is the
most pressing problem.  The two hundred children need at least 33 sacks of
rice every month, an impossible burden for the local village and the monastery. 

Weaving for Women, a Sangkhlaburi-based refugee project long supported by
BRC-J, has offered to supply handwoven blankets for the children before
winter sets in and to try locally to get contributions of inexpensive school
supplies.  

BRC-J is making an emergency appeal for help to supply these children with
rice rations and other necessities.

In Japan, donations can be sent via postal transfer (yubin furikae ):

01030-2-68650
Ken Kawasaki
(in romaji)


Personal checks (U.S.) or international drafts can be sent to:

Burmese Relief Center?Japan
2001 Missouri Avenue
Flint, MI 48506, U.S.A.


Donations of children's clothing can be sent via sea mail to:

Daisy
Orphans Project
17 Moo 1
Tong Boon Nong Loo
Sangkhlaburi, Kanchanaburi 71240
Thailand

Please mark the packages:

Used Clothing
For Charity
No Commercial Value

For more information, contact:
	  
Burmese Relief Center?Japan
266-27 Ozuku-cho, Kashihara, Nara 634-0846, Japan
Tel: (0744) 22-8236 ? Fax: (0744) 24-6254
e-mail:brelief@xxxxxxx

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