One Week Later
It’s been a week since the 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, and things aren’t going well.
Residents of Sagaing—a city of over 300,000 near the quake's epicenter—report that over 80% of the town has been destroyed. Across the region, hospitals and cemeteries are overwhelmed, and international aid is arriving but slowly, hampered by destroyed bridges, damaged roads, and the country’s civil war (which is in a tenuous 20-day humanitarian ceasefire).
Aid groups have described the damage and needs as “staggering.”
Officially, at least 2,000 people have died and 3,000 have been injured, though local reports suggest that is a significant undercount.
BE DOERS
We’re asking the TPO Community to join us in partnering with World Concern, which has boots on the ground in Myanmar, providing life-sustaining nutrition, clean water, medication, and more.
TPO is matching the first $3,000—simply give through this link.
“If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,’ but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?”
James 2:15-16 (CSB) (read full passage)