From c.bick at vu.nl  Tue Apr  8 09:17:17 2025
From: c.bick at vu.nl (Christian Bick)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 09:17:17 +0200
Subject: [SGS] Myanmar Disaster Relief
Message-ID: <18f673ba-0750-45b4-b5c1-d786eb9da47f@vu.nl>

Dear colleagues,

a number of you may be aware that I have been in fostering mathematics 
activities in Myanmar for a number of years. With the political 
situation having become difficult - to put it mildly - the recent 
earthquake has added to the already difficult situation. That has of 
course made the resumption of the math activities there even more 
challenging.

If you are considering donating to the earthquake relief effort, the 
critical thing is that any funds do arrive with the right people (rather 
than funding shiny office building in London or the military). Hence, I 
would like to highlight a fundraising effort by Medical Action Myanmar:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/earthquake-relief-for-myanmar

This is a small medical NGO based in Yangon with ties to the UK (the 
head who has lived in the country has a partial appointment with the 
tropical medicine research unit of Oxford). These people have been and 
will be on the ground, so I have no hesitation to recommend donating to 
them rather to others.

If you have any questions or would like to know more about my 
mathematics activities there, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Best wishes,
Chris

-- 
Christian Bick
https://www.math.vu.nl/~bick/

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Co-Director
Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation
https://www.amsterdam-dynamics.nl