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Myanmar

In Myanmar (formerly Burma), HI advances the rights of survivors of mines and explosive remnants of war and people with disabilities.

Physical rehabilitation session - Humanity & Inclusion Myanmar

Patient receiving a physical rehabilitation session after Cyclone Nargis in May 2008. | © T. Calvot / HI

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Humanity & Inclusion provides support to victims of mines and explosive remnants of war, including people with disabilities, and helps them access rehabilitation care and psychological support. HI also helps people protect themselves by providing them with risk education on mines and explosive remnants of war.

HI trains medical teams in hospitals, including emergency services in children’s hospitals in Yangon and Mandalay, in natural disaster risk preparedness and performs advocacy work on the development of national disaster preparedness plans. The organization also trains organizations of people with disabilities to manage these risks.

The organization also runs rehabilitation sessions for people with disabilities affected by the conflict in Kayin State.

HI also implements a project on the early detection of disability and early intervention (rehabilitation sessions, psychosocial support, etc.) for children under the age of five and pregnant women among others, targeted in particular at victims of natural disasters.

Moreover, HI ensures people with disabilities have access to services such as healthcare and education and can access new sources of income.

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Shot seeking safety, Rohingya boy receives his first artificial limb
© Abdun Noor / HI
Rehabilitation

Shot seeking safety, Rohingya boy receives his first artificial limb

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Myanmar has fallen in a deep humanitarian crisis
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Emergency Explosive weapons Rehabilitation

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“We have been handing out masks to the most vulnerable”
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Emergency Health

“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.

Background

Map of Humanity & Inclusion's interventions in Myanmar

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-19 pandemic in 2020 and even more since the political crisis in February 2021, the 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 the program launched: 1994

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