Brave Myanmar

On February 1, 2021, the Tatmadaw (military) of Myanmar staged a coup, detaining key leaders of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party. This was immediately followed by the Tatmadaw censoring the press, shutting down the Internet, closing banks, cutting off global communication, and announcing a state of emergency. As it stands, our brothers and sisters from Myanmar suffer in silence, unlawfully thrust under the rule of a dangerous dictatorship that opposes the will of the people. The coup is the Tatmadaw’s retaliation of the 2020 general election in which the NLD amassed nearly 75% of the people’s votes; the Tatmadaw denounced the results, citing unsubstantiated acts of “fraud.” The people of Myanmar now stand in bleak uncertainty of what is to come, reminded of the bloody 1988 Uprising: student-organized national protests demanding democratic rule met with militant violence and thousands of casualties (cited from Chin Youth of Tomorrow’s letter to Senators chinyouth.org ). 

Even in the midst of uncertainty and fear, we see the people of Myanmar are fighting for justice and democracy, and we want to support them through this fundraising. 

Our funding will proceed to the people of Myanmar as the following - 
60% to the CDM movement - those of government workers participating in peaceful disobedience against the military government.
40% to the low income families- those who are struggling for daily necessities in the country. 

Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) is a peaceful protest that the government workers are participating right now to stand against the military’s injustice, and we want to provide for them and their families. They might need shelters and meals as the military will now allow housing for them any longer. CDM is considered as the most hopeful protests for Myanmar, and a lot of government workers are joining this movement. Some families in the country depend on their daily wages, and for those in dire needs, we want to give them a handing hand. There might also be casualties from peaceful protests, and we will reach out as soon as we hear the news. 

Our reliable Myanmar contact is in Myanmar (for security reasons, we will not reveal his name), and he will be distributing the funds as needed throughout the country. We will be posting our updates here at Gofundme and also at our Facebook page The Grace Ministry. 

Let's give courage to the people of Myanmar in this fight for freedom!

ကျွန်တော်တို့အခုလို fundraising လုပ်ရခြင်းသည် မြန်မာပြည်၌ စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ်လုံးဝ ကွယ်ပျောက်ရေးအတွက် CDM လှုပ်ရှားမှုအားဖြင့်သော်၎င်း၊ ဆန္ဒပြခြင်းအားဖြင့်သော်၎င်း ပါဝင်ကြသော မြန်မာပြည်သူပြည်သားများအား တစ်ဖက်တစ်လမ်းမှ အကူညီပေးနိုင်ရေးအတွက်ဖြစ်သည်။
ဤ fundraising မှ ရရှိသောငွေအားလုံးမှ ၆၀% ကို CDM လှုပ်ရှားမှု၌ပါဝင်သည့် ဝန်ထမ်းများထဲမှ အရေးပေါ်အကူညီလိုသော သူများကို ဦးစားပေး ကူညီသွားမည်ဖြစ်ပြီး၊ ကျန် ၄၀% ကို ဒုက္ခရောက်နေသူများ နှင့် အစားအစာ အရေးပေါ်အကူညီလိုအပ်နေသောသူများအား ကူညီထောက်ပံ့ရာ၌ အသုံးပြုသွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်။