Dear Wesleyan Community,

Despite your preoccupation with exams and other pressing matters, I’m sure you’ve heard about the terrible natural disasters in Myanmar and Sichuan Province in China.  We’ve heard from a former Wesleyan student from Myanmar, Wunna Kyaw (now studying engineering at USC), who has been in touch with friends doing relief work in the Irawaddy delta area near the capital, the area hardest hit by the cyclone.  He is asking for contributions to enable his friends to buy relief supplies.  As you’re probably also aware, getting supplies (including most importantly clean water and medicines), to the hundreds of thousands of survivors, has been exceedingly difficult.  As residents of the country, Wunna’s friends are having better success than most in getting the supplies to those who need it most.  We have also heard of another organization through a Wes alum, Hanna Ingber Win ‘03, whose husband’s family live in Yangon:  www.uscampaignforburma.org   — that seems to be successfully deilvering relief supplies. 

We are also looking at the Red Cross of China to make contributions to the earthquake relief effort:  http://202.108.59.10/english/index.htm

If you would like to contribute to these organizations directly, please use the weblinks above.  If you would like to contribute through Wesleyan, you may deposit your contribution in the donation bowls in the Usdan University Center Wednesday and Thursday. Look for the signs. We will divide the contributions between Myanmar and China.

Thank you for your attention — and good luck on your exams!

Best,

Alice Hadler
Associate Dean for International Student Affairs 

Daniel Hiroyuki Teraguchi
Dean for Dviersity and Student Engagement

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