Before the historic 7.7 earthquake hit Myanmar, many rural villages lived peacefully and simply. However, the earthquake’s aftermath shook the entire region as families lost their homes while communities lost the wells that were the region’s only source of clean water.
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Pu Su Ma
Before the earthquake I lived peacefully in my village.
Jon Stone – Samaritan’s Purse
This community is a very rural community surrounded by rice fields. Each home has chickens and livestock. And now this earthquake has just brought them to the brink of hopelessness, because what they had has now been destroyed.
Pu Su Ma
Because of the earthquake, everyone in the village is afraid
Jon Stone
We are in a place that is heavily in need. We saw many households destroyed by the wells and water supplies. Those have now been drained or fouled. So there’s no doubt that we are in a place that is strongly in need of support from us.
Pu Su Ma
I am very glad that you are all helping my village when we are in trouble
Jon Stone
This school will represent a distribution for us for family household kits. And those kits will contain tarp and blankets and solar lights and jerry cans and solar filters, so that every home can have a home filtration system. We’re really hoping that in the supplies that we’re providing today will let this community know that someone outside knows about them, cares about them, and to remind this community that they are loved by God.
Story Provided By:
Samaritan’s Purse
Producing Organization
Samaritans Purse – www.samaritanspurse.org
Recording Location
Myanmar
Organization featured in this Story
Samaritans Purse – www.samaritanspurse.org
People Interviewed and their Titles
Pu Su Ma
Jon Stone – Samaritan’s Purse
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