16/05/2026
Myanmar’s displacement crisis has been reported to surpass 5 million people, but those of us working on the ground know the reality is even higher. Many families remain unreported, constantly moving, or completely cut off in rural areas/mountains or jungles.
Humanitarian funding to Myanmar remains dangerously low and through junta means. Millions are facing food insecurity, malnutrition is worsening, and basic survival has become impossible for many families. In Yangon, even one egg can cost around 600 kyat. For displaced families, this is not just inflation, it is hunger becoming normalised.
Now the rainy season is almost here, and danger is escalating rapidly. Many communities have already been without clean water for weeks. People are being forced to drink contaminated water, and when the rains and flooding begin, IDPs will be among the most vulnerable. Waterborne diseases such as cholera, giardia, acute watery diarrhoea, and other infections are always a major threat during rainy season. This year, with escalating and indiscriminate attack, as well as severe malnutrition already weakening children, the elderly, and the sick, the death toll will be higher.
The junta’s attacks are not random. Across Chin, Sagaing, Arakan, and other areas, civilians have been forced to flee again and again as airstrikes, clearance operations, and attacks destroy villages, IDP shelters, clinics, food storage/fields, and access routes. These attacks are pushing already displaced people into even more dangerous conditions just as the rains arrive.
Myanmar’s visibility has shifted again. It is no longer being seen only as a country in crisis, but increasingly as a country rich in resources, strategic access, and investment potential, controlled by an illegitimate military desperate to trade anything for recognition. The danger is that some governments and investors appear willing to engage with that reality while millions of civilians are left in the peripheral.
Myanmar does not need deals that reward the military for destruction. It needs urgent humanitarian access, direct support to local responders, clean water, food, medical aid, and protection for civilians.
Behind every statistic is a family displaced, a child drinking unsafe water, a village erased, and a population being abandoned at the exact moment the danger is about to become even worse.
We are urgently raising funds to purchase lifesaving water and medical aid for the many in need.
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