Buzz Off’s Yangon manager Elizabeth Nwe is currently visiting flood torn areas of Myanmar distributing LLIN mosquito nets and other relief to flood victims. The pictures taken here are from Magwe division where. Many thousands of people have been displaced. Buzz Off needs more nets. Your donation will help …
Mosquito Nets and relief for Burma Floods
It is the Monsoon season in Myanmar (Burma) and during this time of year mosquito breeding increases as do malaria infection rates. In the midst of the normal Monsoonal rains vast tracts of Myanmar have experienced flash floods and landslides, dams have broken, thousands are displaced and the extra water …
World Malaria Day
April 25 is World Malaria Day, a time to stop to see how the quest to fight malaria is going. The WHO site is found here, http://www.who.int/campaigns/malaria-day/2015/event/en/ At Buzz Off we are working mainly in Burma, we have some work we are doing in Papua New Guinea and we …
102 New Malaria volunteers trained by Buzz Off in Burma
The Buzzoff seminar team made up of Kiwis, Dutch, Aussie and Burmese members completed the training of 102 new malaria volunteers at Khaunt khi. All of these trainees were from remote areas of Bago region close to Karen State and a further 52 workers in Mandalay. The teaching went very …
Australian Mercy launches $100,000 appeal for Buzz Off Burma
A letter from the National Director Dear Friends, I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy New Year; we trust that 2015 will be a special year for you and your family. As we look to 2015 we can see that it will be a very busy …
Buzz Off Burma – Official Stats for 2014
The final statistics for Buzz Off Burma 2014 are in and they show that the campaign has grown and is moving forward at a great rate of knots; In 2014 Buzz Off Burma saw; 4 training courses run – training 200 malaria volunteers …
More Seminars
The Buzz Off team has just completed two more Burma seminars where 98 new malaria volunteers were trained. The team consisted of trainers from Australia, Myanmar, Holland and the UK who held two seminars in remote Burma. Twantay – Irrawaddy Seminar The first seminar took place in Twantay a township …
LLIN nets distributed in Myanmar exceeds 10,000 for the year!
Figures for the Buzz Off Malaria campaign in keep on coming in and the number of LLIN nets that we have distributed in Myanmar in the past 12 months has risen from 9,000 to 10,570. With a final set of seminars for 2014 set for November this number can only …
Buzz Off prepares for new round of Burmese seminars
November Seminars The training team from Buzz Off is preparing to go to Burma to runs another round of training seminars in remote Burma. This time we will return to the Delta and run seminars in Kalay for people working in Chin State. The team will be joined by our …
Sad News from Buzz Off’s Yangon Office
It is with a sad heart that we announce that our dear friend and keen supporter Mrs Josephine Nwe died on the weekend. Josephine is the wife of our friend and co-worker, Ps Mynint Nwe and mother of Elizabeth Nwe our Buzz Off Yangon manager . Josephine was a kind …