China Update – Volunteer Activity

The conditions in China’s Sichuan province are rough, as the search continues for survivors in the rubble left after China’s most devastating earthquake in more than 3 decades – an earthquake that killed an estimated 50,000 people and left close to 5 million homeless.

 

Now almost a [...]

Help Needed – Situation in China

On Monday, China suffered its worst earthquake in three decades with a 7.9 quake which literally toppled buildings leaving thousands trapped under houses, schools, factories and office buildings or dead. The earthquake was centered in Sichuan Province in southwest China but was felt across the vast country.
There are at least 12,000 known casualties, but [...]

Myanmar – All Volunteer Ministers Call to Action

OVERVIEW:
On Sunday, Cyclone Nargis hit the nation of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma, a country between India and China) and killed in excess of 25,000 people so far. The original report from the military government of Myanmar was a death toll in the hundreds, but there was a belated admission that the cyclone had [...]