GRI's southeast Asia Global Disaster Response Team is officially up and running in Bangkok, Thailand. We opened our office last week, and a team of five is now living in Bangkok. This team will manage GRI's disaster response for the Asia-Pacific region, which includes the Pacific Ring of Fire. Ninety percent of the world's earthquakes, and 80% of the world's worst earthquakes, occur within the "ring of fire."
The team was in place shortly after Cyclone Nargis in Burma. This is a disaster of literally epic proportions, made exponentially worse by the Burmese junta's refusal to allow relief organizations to deliver life-saving aid. Would you join us in praying that the junta would stop this madness - that they would allow those who simply want to help to come in and do just that? Would you pray for wisdom for all the aid organizations as they navigate these very sensitive waters? And would you remember the suffering people of Burma in your prayers - some of them pictured above - as they wait and search for hope?
The team (Jaden, Bethany, Steve, Dawn and Kerri)
