Team Successfully Administers Aid

2008-24-07

On July 2nd, Giving Children Hope’s medical team returned from a two week trip to Myanmar.

The team included Giving Children Hope’s founder and president, John Ditty, his son Jonathan, missionaries Stacy Long and Dan Behrens, medical student Duffy Casey and Herman Waruwu from GCH’s office in Indonesia. Upon reaching Myanmar, the team partnered with I Love Myanmar, a local organization working to bring relief to those affected by Cyclone Nargis.

The team flew first to Rangoon, Myanmar’s capital, and spent days networking, negotiating and attending meetings in order to procure a way into the Irrawaddy Delta, a region severely affected by the cyclone and largely denied foreign aid.

Finally, the team was flown into the village of Daunt Gyi by a United Nations helicopter. Once in Daunt Gyi, the team delivered care packages and medicine, treated patients, held health and hygiene clinics and assessed the greatest needs of the region.

Stacy Long, who spent his days praying over illnesses and preaching the Gospel to the villagers, wrote of the experience in his online blog. “The Lord did unprecedented and shocking things while we were there. We paved the way for other teams and ministries to get into the delta much easier, faster and stay longer than anyone had been able to before.”

Giving Children Hope was one of the first non-governmental organizations to enter the delta and administer aid to its inhabitants. The region’s needs are great and range from rampant medical epidemics to loss of livestock and housing.

Cyclone Nargis left over 2 million homeless and took the lives of 100,000 Burmese people.

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