Kalay locals plan to donate food supplies to IDPs in Paletwa

Kalay locals plan to donate food supplies to IDPs in Paletwa
Published 12 March 2020
Aung Thu Tun

Locals from Kalay are collecting money to donate food supplies and medicines to IDPs living in Paletwa Township, Chin State, sources said.

Locals from Paletwa organized a committee to send rice and food supplies from Kyauktaw and Samie in this month.

“We want to fulfill the need of ethnics. We learned about their difficulties from the news and MP Hway Tin. The donation started for two days now and we have over 60 rice bags and over one million in cash. We planned to ask for donations until March 20. We will transfer the food supplies to the state government. We will mainly donate rice as we own rice mills. We want to tell the organizations, which can bring peace, to do for a ceasefire,” said Thein Shwe from Rice Millers Association.

Social welfare associations held an emergency meeting on March 10 in Paletwa and announced six agreements.

“We are nearly short on rice in our homes and no store is selling. We planned to carry rice and food provisions via Kyauktaw and Samie. We will carry rice and food provisions through Sittwe if we are allowed. We cannot buy dry noodles as well,” said San Mya from Paletwa.

Transport and internet access in Paletwa has been cut off for about one month now.