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ASEAN Hands-over Recovery Projects to Cyclone Nargis Survivors
ASEAN Statements Yangon, Myanmar, 28 June 2010
and Communiqués
2010 Three Post-Nargis Recovery projects implemented by ASEAN Volunteers and implementing
partners were handed over to the Nargis-affected community today by the Deputy Secretary-
2009 General of ASEAN for ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community, Dato’ Misran Karmain, in Myanmar.
2008 The projects provided support in livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and access to safe water and
2003-2007 sanitation for at least 5,000 households in the Kungyangon, Kwahmu, Labutta and Pyapon
townships. Funded by Norway and Timor-Leste, the project activities are community-driven and
ASEAN Secretariat centred on supporting under-assisted communities, especially those most vulnerable.
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As part of the handover ceremony, Dato' Misran, ASEAN Volunteers and implementing partners
ASEAN Secretariat inaugurated a bridge and distributed boats with engines, water tanks, artesian wells and rice mills
Bulletin to the villagers in Kungyangon township. Senior members of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG)
were also present at the inauguration. The TCG comprises representatives from ASEAN, the
Government of Myanmar and the United Nations.

“ASEAN is honoured to transfer ownership of the projects to these communities,” said Dato’
Misran at the ceremony. “The projects have rebuilt people’s livelihoods and enhanced their
capacity on reducing disaster risks. We hope that these outcomes will be sustained,” he added.

The three projects were implemented between November 2009 and June 2010 by Border Areas
Development Association, Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) and
ActionAid International- Myanmar/Aung Yadanar Social Association, with the support of 20
ASEAN Volunteers from Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and
Thailand.

Dato’ Misran also commended the ASEAN Volunteers for their contribution. “The ASEAN
Volunteers from different parts of the region who came to lend helping hands to the people of
Myanmar and to exchange knowledge have demonstrated the principle of a caring and sharing
ASEAN Community,” he said. “I am proud of them and their active commitment in local capacity
building. Their spirit of volunteerism should be promoted across and beyond the region,” he
added.

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Communication and Stakeholder Relations Coordinator
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Myanmar Mobile: +95 (09) 50 933 89
mai.aseanhtf@gmail.com

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