Physical rehabilitation session - Humanity & Inclusion Myanmar | © T. Calvot / HI
In Myanmar (formerly Burma), HI advances the rights of survivors of mines and explosive remnants of war and people with disabilities and promotes their inclusion in local communities.
Physical rehabilitation session - Humanity & Inclusion Myanmar | © T. Calvot / HI
HI provides assistance to survivors of landmines and explosive remnants of war and to people with disabilities, helping them to access rehabilitation and psychological support. HI also helps people to protect themselves by raising awareness of the risks associated with mines and explosive remnants of war.
HI’s teams train medical teams in hospitals, including the emergency departments of children's hospitals in Yangon and Mandalay, in disaster preparedness, and advocates for the development of national disaster preparedness plans.HI also trains organizations of people with disabilities to manage these risks.
The teams run rehabilitation sessions for people with disabilities affected by the conflict in the state of Kayin.
HI’s Myanmar program also runs a disability early identification and intervention project (rehabilitation sessions, psychosocial support, etc.) for children under the age of five and pregnant women among others, targeted in particular at survivors of natural disasters.
Moreover, HI works to ensure that people with disabilities have access to services such as healthcare, education and new sources of income.
Shot seeking safety, Rohingya boy receives his first artificial limb
After being shot as he fled to Bangladesh, 12-year-old Rohingya refugee, Jubair, was hoping for just one thing: to play soccer on his own two feet.
Myanmar has fallen in a deep humanitarian crisis
Since the events of February 2021, the humanitarian situation has deeply deteriorated in Myanmar.
“We have been handing out masks to the most vulnerable”
Fabrice Vandeputte, Humanity & Inclusion's director in Myanmar, explains how his teams are helping the most vulnerable individuals protect themselves from the coronavirus.
Negotiation between HI and the Myanmar government started in 1994, but the first operations are dated 2008, following cyclone Nargis.
The program, mainly focused on emergency response, was closed at the end of the response operations. In 2013, after a new exploratory mission, the program was reopened, initially focused on the possibility of starting humanitarian mine action.
Since the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020 and even more since the political crisis from February 2021, economy and financial services have collapsed and foreign investments have decreased, announcing a strong setback in the level of development and putting at risk of extreme poverty more than 50% of the population.
Myanmar remains the only regime in the world to make regular use of anti-personnel mines, but no mine clearance operations have been implemented.
Number of HI staff members: 120
Date program opened: 1994
Get the latest news about Humanity & Inclusion's work delivered straight to your inbox.
ABOUT US
Humanity & Inclusion U.S.
8757 Georgia Avenue
Suite 420
Silver Spring, MD 20910
MORE INFORMATION
SEARCH
Humanity & Inclusion is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization (EIN/tax ID number: 55-0914744). Contributions are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law. CFC #51472
None of the funds donated through this website will benefit activities in the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, the Crimea Region, or Syria. Humanity & Inclusion does not have programs in all of these countries.
