Fed: Keep money coming: Burma appeal agencies urge

AAP General News (Australia);  May 13, 2008 ;     150 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 05-13-2008 Fed: Keep money coming: Burma appeal agencies urge Aid organisations are urging Australians not to let the political climate in Burma discourage them from contributing...

Urgent callmade for support as Welsh Burma appeal is launched.(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  May 10, 2008 ;     244 words ...Byline: Gerry Holt THE Disasters Emergency Committee in Wales has launched its Burma appeal. The charity launched the appeal at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, to aid survivors of the devastating Cyclone Nargis...

Victims' aid on the menu.(News)

Birmingham Mail (England);  July 5, 2008 ;     73 words ......victims of the Burmese cyclone. The first dinner at Kushi Balti, in Moseley Road, raised pounds 1,070 for the Birmingham to Burma Appeal - enough to buy a scooter to get aid to hard-to-reach areas. Birmingham organisation Agape are processing the donations for...

Provost backs youngsters' Burma appeal

Evening News - Scotland;  October 25, 2007 ;     82 words ...LORD Provost George Grubb helps pupils from Forthview Primary School sell Burma solidarity ribbons. The school has struck up a relationship with the Hleebee school in Mae Sot, a town in Thailand close to the Burmese border. Many of Hleebee's pupils are Burmese who have fled the military

UK must move to help Burma APPEAL: MP calls for Government to impose...

Birmingham Mail;  September 26, 2007 ;     369 words ...A BIRMINGHAM MP who is one of the few western politicians to have direct contact with the brutal Burmese military regime today called on the Government to impose sanctions. Sutton Coldfield Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell was the first British politician to hold face-to-face talks with the regime

UK must move to help Burma; APPEAL: MP calls for Government to impose...

Birmingham Mail (England);  September 26, 2007 ;     389 words ...Byline: By Neil Elkes A BIRMINGHAM MP who is one of the few western politicians to have direct contact with the brutal Burmese military regime today called on the Government to impose sanctions. Sutton Coldfield Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell was the first British politician to hold face-to-face

Rotary supports Burma appeal

Herald Express (Torquay UK);  May 27, 2008 ;     293 words ...Torquay's Rotary Club is helping to provide crucial aid to victim's of Burma's recent cyclone. As part of an ongoing collaboration with registered charity Shelterbox the Rotary Club is arranging for five aid boxes to be sent to Burma. Each of the boxes cost pounds499 and will include a 10-person

Help us prevent a catastrophe; BURMA APPEAL: Coventry people urged to give...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  May 13, 2008 ;     438 words ...Byline: By Helen Thomas A COVENTRY charity has launched an appeal to help the thousands of people affected by the cyclone which has devastated parts of Burma. More than 100,000 people are believed to have died in the disaster and more than a million left homeless without food, water or shelter.

Letter: Aid is still essential.(Letters)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  May 22, 2008 ;     139 words ......estimated 1.5 million people. We would like to thank the Welsh public for their generosity in donating to the DEC Myanmar (Burma) Appeal, which has so far raised pounds 6m in the UK. Much more is urgently needed. DEC agencies have reached more than 350,000 people...

Plea to help cyclone survivors in Burma.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  May 21, 2008 ;     82 words ......have been distributed in Burma but the Rotary clubs want people in Coventry to help them provide more. Donations can be sent to the Joint Rotary Presidents Shelterbox Burma Appeal, c/o Merrick Lodge Hotel, St Nicholas Street, Coventry CV1 4BP.

Group's gig will help Burma aid

Gloucestershire Echo, The;  May 7, 2008 ;     127 words ......versions of everything from Abba to Van Morrison and Scissor Sisters during a two-hour set, with half the cash going to the Burma appeal and the rest towards breast cancer research. The death toll in Burma is believed to have risen to more than 22,000 after...

Vic: Victoria donates $500,000 to China earthquake victims

AAP General News (Australia);  May 28, 2008 ;     170 words ......is why Victoria is offering financial assistance, as we did in 2004 with the Asian tsunami and earlier this month with the Burma appeal," Mr Brumby said. He said members of the public wanting to make individual donations can contact the Red Cross or visit the...

Britons pledge pounds 8m to Burma survivors - as leaders bemoan junta's...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  May 19, 2008 ;     173 words ......isolationist military regime, which insists it is managing relief operations perfectly well on its own despite evidence that some 2.5m survivors are living in misery. To make a donation to the Burma appeal, visit www.dec.org.uk or call 0870 6060900.

Letter: Please sign petition in bid to stop massacre; Voice of the...

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  September 28, 2007 ;     238 words ......screens; now the world must act. In hope, BECCY OWEN, Newcastle http://www.avaaz.org/en/standwithburma/i.php/?cl=20686000&signup=1 CAPTION(S): BURMA APPEAL: Journal readers are being urged to sign a petition in a bid to prevent a massacre.

'Red tape' hits charity work ; For eight years, ShelterBox has been...

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  June 21, 2008 ;     664 words ......changed - permitting one collection per cause per year. The Plymouth Rotary Clubs eventually got their collection slot for the Burma appeal for ShelterBox, on May 31, but since it is almost a month since the disaster, the collection results were disappointing...