The Nippon Foundation Delivering Additional Emergency Humanitarian Assistance to People of Quake-Hit Myanmar
Published on April 14, 2025
The Nippon Foundation has decided to provide additional emergency humanitarian assistance to the people of Myanmar, hard hit by a massive earthquake on March 28.
We made the decision after I visited the Sagaing Region, the city of Mandalay and the capital Naypyidaw on April 3 to assess firsthand the damage to those areas in my capacity as chairman of The Nippon Foundation and Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for National Reconciliation in Myanmar.
The foundation is coordinating with local NGOs and directly delivering urgently needed items including mosquito nets, waterproof tarps, and bedding mats to roughly 30,000 households (estimated 150,000 people) living in the Sagaing Region and the city of Mandalay, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, and Naypyidaw Union Territory, where the damage was especially severe.
The emergency aid was in addition to the $3 million (roughly 450 million yen) worth of humanitarian relief, including food and medical supplies, that the foundation decided to provide a few days after the earthquake.
Doctors and nurses treat patients at a makeshift medical tent set up after a hospital was destroyed in the capital Naypyidaw by the strong earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28.
Survivors living on the median strip of a road in Mandalay where daytime temperatures exceed 40 degrees Celsius.
A destroyed building in Sagaing.
A destroyed junior high school in Sagaing where six people were believed to be buried beneath the rubble (as of April 3).
