CLWR - Canadian Lutheran World Relief

Published purpose

March 2020 – The humanitarian situation in Myanmar is characterized by a complex combination of vulnerability to armed conflict, inter-communal tension, protracted displacement and food insecurity. It is estimated that 985,000 crisis-affected people are in need of humanitarian assistance this year, including more than 273,000 displaced people (of which 69% are women and children) who remain in camps or camp-like settings across the country. With GAC’s support, Canadian Lutheran World Relief and its local partner, Lutheran World Federation Myanmar, are providing clean drinking water, non-food items and shelter to internally displaced people and host communities in Central Rakhine State, Myanmar. The project is also addressing issues of protection and social cohesion. Project activities include: (1) improving rainwater harvesting ponds and installing hand pumps; (2) distributing non-food items to persons with disabilities, elderly people, children without caregivers and single-headed households; (3) re-constructing longhouses in a safer, more dignified and gender-responsive manner; (4) providing training on leadership and rights-based empowerment to women, adolescent girls and girls; and (5) conducting awareness raising sessions on sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence.