An emergency Teleconference of WAO-USA successfully held on October 24, 2010. The purpose of Teleconference agenda has made to assist the Cyclone Giri victims People from Arakan. Twenty were as conference attendees including WAO-USA Executive Committee discussed the emergency relief fund.
Both WAO leaders Dr. Aye Kyaw and Dr. Aye Chan participated in the meeting and they solemnly suggested and advised for working together to collect donation immediately and send it to Cyclone Giri sufferers.
All conference attendees unanimously discussed and made decision has formed Cyclone Giri Relief Committee regionally across the United State of America. During the meeting, all attendees donated $ 2000 with good will and it will be send first week of November. So far, each branch of Cyclone Giri Relief Committee is collecting to relief fund from neighboring sympathizers. WAO.USA contacted to local volunteers and agreed with U Khin Maung Soe who is president of Rakhine Thahaya Athyn (YGN) to release WAO-USA reserved fund ($2650) for emergency relief this morning (10/24/2010). This teleconference held from 9:30pm to 10:30pm. Your personal commitment is incredibly helpful and allows us to reach our goal.
World Arakanese Organization has received really unhappy news including damaged photos from Kyauk Pru, Mrebone and Mumbra townships where had been worst struck by cyclone Giri landfall on Arakan by wind per hour 160 mile and tidal surge, which was as high as 12 feet on October 22-23, 2010.
According to the information from Arakan, there was over ten thousand of Arakanese people are homeless and over three hundreds estimated death.
Source: WAO-USA