Responding to Myanmar Earthquake with Additional Emergency Humanitarian AssistanceDelivering food, medical supplies, mosquito nets, waterproof tarps, and bedding mats to roughly 30,000 households

On April 3, Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of The Nippon Foundation and Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for National Reconciliation in Myanmar, visited the Sagaing Region and the city of Mandalay in central Myanmar, close to the epicenter of the March 28 earthquake. After assessing the situation firsthand, he determined that in addition to the food and medical supplies to be provided as emergency humanitarian relief announced on March 31, the Foundation would coordinate with local NGOs and work directly to provide urgently needed items including mosquito nets, waterproof tarps, and bedding mats to roughly 30,000 households (estimated as 150,000 people) living in Sagaing Region, the city of Mandalay, and Naypyidaw Union Territory, where damage was especially severe.