As you know, Nargis cyclone has violently hit Burma some days ago. Provisional tolls are tremendous: 30,000 to 110,000 deaths, 230,000 disappeared and 1.5 million homeless. A few days after, a terrible earthquake hit Sichuan Province in China, killing 30,000, with 200,000 missing and and 4.5 million homeless.

As always and everywhere in this situation, needs are huge and very urgent: food, water, medicines, clothes, etc. On a longer term basis, there will be needs of reconstruction, and to try to help affected people get back to normal life as soon as possible.

The political situation in Burma makes it difficult for international help to reach the victims from outside the country: the Society of St Vincent de Paul is present in Burma!
In China, even though SSVP is not present in the region, it is able to bring help through our Central Council of Hong-Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) which has contacts with Caritas and the Church. 

We have to use this strength… but without money, the Vincentians can’t do anything!

We officially ask the Vincentians of the world to get mobilized! Send your donations to Council General of the International Confederation of St Vincent de Paul:

We thank you in advance for your generosity and your prayers