Right now, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and International Development Minister Baroness Chapman are making decisions about which countries will suffer from the huge cut in the UK international aid budget, including aid to Burma.
Burma is in the midst of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis:
- More than 4 million people have been forced to flee their homes since the 2021 coup.
- Schools and hospitals are deliberately bombed by the Burmese military.
- More than half the population is now living in poverty.
- Famine is threatened in Rakhine State. As one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, food production is being hit by rising temperatures and extreme weather events causing frequent floods.
- A devastating earthquake.
Email Lammy and Chapman now calling on them not to cut aid to Burma.