FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: Fw: [Allies-L] UU Service Committee and UUA Partnerto Launch Myanmar Cyclone Relief Fund

[Barbara Weatherhead (barbweather]

I share Adele's concerns about access to Myanmar and respect for the
American Refugee Committee (Lead story in today's
Strib:http://www.startribune.com/local/18751504.html) 

Barbara Weatherhead
barbweather [at] comcast.net  

-----Original Message-----
From: hanse002 [at] umn.edu [mailto:hanse002 [at] umn.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:03 PM
To: Barb Weatherhead
Subject: Re: [sa-talk] Fw: [Allies-L] UU Service Committee and UUA
Partnerto Launch Myanmar Cyclone Relief Fund

This might sound negative, and someone can correct me if I'm wrong...
Let's 
think about where best to donate. I don't know a lot about the
UUSC...other 
than the very general descriptions I read. How are they organized? How
do 
they "quickly" move into an emergency situation? On the other hand, I
know 
a lot about the American Refugee Committee (located in the TC) which has
a 
very clear organization and at least one primary focus on medical care. 
When I give money to ARC, I know how my money will be spent.

Also, right now, it seems like the Myanmar government is not allowing
many 
orgs in ..As we get closer to the date for a special collection, things 
might be clearer. May 11th in music Sunday, and I don't think we could
get 
a special collection that day. May 18th is the collection the youth
want. 
May 25th is Memorial Dav weekend, which might mean lower attendance. We 
could ask for the special collection for the first Sunday in June (the
last 
day of our "regular" calendar year.) Do we "ask" Kendyl?

Adele

On May 8 2008, jojane [at] juno.com wrote:

>All - we should take a special collection in late May or early June for
>the UUSC/UUA fund for cyclone victims.  The Monthly Social Justice
>Collection program will be done for the program year on May 18th.
>Jo
>
>----- Forwarded Message -----
>From: "Unitarian Universalist Association" <uua_l [at] uua.org>
>To: <allies-l [at] lists.druumm.org>
>Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 11:36:29 -0400
>Subject: [Allies-L] UU Service Committee and UUA Partner to Launch
>Myanmar Cyclone Relief Fund
>Message-ID: <80BCC712CC44034CB63482BB48C08B1D0153E0AF [at] exchsrv.uua.org>
>
> The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and the Unitarian 
> Universalist Association have joined to launch a humanitarian relief
fund 
> to help survivors of the recent Myanmar (formerly known as Burma)
cyclone 
> (Cyclone Nargis). Both organizations strive to coordinate strategic 
> response to natural or man-made humanitarian crises, especially when 
> rights are threatened or when those in need are overlooked or
neglected 
> by traditional relief approaches. Aid, coordinated through the UUSC,
will 
> be channeled to humanitarian relief work in an effort to help
survivors 
> %u2013 especially those left out of traditional relief strategies
%u2014 
> regain their lives and livelihoods.
> 
>The White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church of Mahtomedi, Minnesota is
>one of those sponsoring a refugee family from Myanmar as they start a
new
>life in the United States.  The congregation%u2019s Minister, Rev.
Victoria
>Safford, wrote:  %u201CThis past fall, our congregation welcomed five
Karen
>(Burmese Christian) children and their parents to our community.  After
>years in camps in Thailand, they told us of the incredible challenges
>facing refugees from Myanmar.  Now, with tens of thousands dead,
injured,
>and left homeless in the cyclone, that struggle is magnified
unspeakably.
> Our generous gifts are needed now - and urgently.  I know, for we have
>seen it here already, that our compassion will be met with gratitude,
and
>will strengthen the spirits of brave people fighting to survive.%u201D

>Please support this relief effort.  To donate online go to
>http://www.uusc.org/info/support_cyclonenargis.html.  
>For donations by mail, please direct contributions to: 
> 
>UUSC-UUA Cyclone Nargis Relief Fund
>P.O. Box 845259
>Boston, MA 02284-5259
> 
> 

-- 
Adele Hansen


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