A bloody civil war has been raging in Myanmar for four years - largely unnoticed by the German and European public. At least 50,000 people were killed, more than three million are on the run. The humanitarian situation is catastrophic: on every second day a child dies of illness, malnutrition, mines or bombing.
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Four years after the coup
February 1, 2021: The military coups against the democratically elected government of Myanmar. The Junta erects a rule of terror, violently acts against oppositional, demonstrators and ethnic minorities. Since then there has been war almost everywhere in the country: pro-democratic and ethnic rebel militias are fighting the democratic exile government against the dictatorship.
In the meantime, the military junta is only under control between 20 and 40 percent of the state area. But the weaker your own position becomes, the more brutal it strikes: in 2024 there were more than 1,500 bomb attacks from the army aircraft and helicopters. Most of them affect civilians.
Terre des Hommes currently supports six projects for children and adolescents within Myanmar and in the refugee camps of the Thai border region:
- Humanitarian aid
- Food packages
- clean water
- Medication
- Hygiene nothilfe packages
- Trauma and psychosocial support for children
- Improvised lessons
- Child protection , especially in refugee camps (behavior in emergency situations, clarification of abuse behavior)
Five other projects are being planned.
Projects
Your contact person
Jan-Hinnerk Voss
Speaker Asia program