Contributions of Htoo Group of Companies
 

In Yangon where the damage was comparatively slight, employees of Htoo Group of Companies helped clean up uprooted tree using chain saws, cranes and dumper trucks. We distributed clean water to areas facing water shortage with our water bowsers, provided electric power generators, compressors, water pumps and diesel fuel to pump underground water.

On 5 May 2008, a pilot team of volunteers from Htoo Group of Companies set out on a day trip to the hard-hit area of Bogalay to conduct preliminary assessment of the destruction.

On 6 May 2008, 3 days after the storm, over 200 volunteers from Htoo Group of Companies headed off to Bogalay with truck-loads of much needed relief supplies such as drinking water, rice, cooking oil, kitchen utensils, snack and fast food, clothing, water storage tanks, pillows, blankets, mosquito nets, slippers, etc., for distribution to the victims.

Our relief plan is designed to provide food, clothing, consumables goods to the survivors and medical care for survivors who are physically or mentally affected, to repair houses that are still standing, to set up temporary shelters for those whose houses were completely destroyed and to build permanent houses complete with flush toilets. In the rehabilitation stage, reconstruction of infrastructure for agriculture and fishery industries, rebuilding of schools, clinics, monasteries and pagodas will be made.

Stationed at the Relief and Rehabilitation Centre they set up in Bogalay, the volunteers handed out drinking water, 1,000 bags of rice, 5,800 viss of cooking oil, clothing, snacks and other emergency supplies in Bogalay proper. Htoo Group of companies donated Kyat 100 million in cash to the Relief and Rehabilitation Supervisory Committee in Bogalay. We repair the damaged Bogalay General Hospital, 11 government offices, 64 monasteries, 2 nunneries, 16 clinics, 3 high schools, 1 middle school, a total of 141 primary schools and 3 pagodas. A building to house 2 water  treatment plants donated by Technisches Hilfswerk of Germany was also built.

The volunteers formed groups and traveled to the affected villages every alternate day and distributed water, rice, snack and fast food, medicine, clothing, blankets, mosquito nets, mats and other consumable goods to survivors in 45 villages  within Bogalay township.

To restore the livelihood of farmers in Kunn Thee Chaung, Kyein Chaung Gyi and Kyun Thayar villages we donated 175 units of power tillers, 26,000 baskets of paddy strain and 2,000 bags of rice for consumption before the next harvest. Fishing boats and nets were handed out to those in the fishing business.

A model village comprising 120 permanent houses with hygienic flush toilets was built in the completely destroyed Kyein Chaung Gyi village. Construction of a school cum storm shelter, a library, a village administrative office and a 60-bed hospital is in the pipeline.