Student society raises thousands in support of Myanmar

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attendees and stalls at a food festival
The Myanmar Food Festival in full swing

Student Doctors Mahima Bharadwaj and Jessica Lwin have just helped raise over £6k with a Myanmar Food Festival in light of the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, with all proceeds donated to the UK-based charity Brighter Future Foundation, which actively provides medical relief to the people in Myanmar.

Mahima is Secretary of the University of Liverpool’s Humanitarian Society which works to connect people and organisations, spread awareness and fundraise around international relief and development.

Mahima says, “We are grateful to Rice over everything for catering and helping raise donations. The festival also welcomed Burmese vendors who set up stalls to sell handmade merchandise and traditional Burmese dishes.

a woman manages a stall of mugs and other items to buy

Burmese vendors ran stalls at the event, which raised over £6000 for charity

a big bowl of soup that someone is stirring with a ladle

As we started advertising the event, several members from the Burmese community across the North West and Midlands approached us, expressing their gratitude and interest in attending the event

This motivated us to take it a step forward. We launched pre-orders, an online campaign on GoFundMe and set up a raffle! All of this has helped us raised more than £6000, a lot more than we had initially hoped to raise.

a man on the microphone and a woman drawing a raffle

A raffle helped raise funds in support of the people of Myanmar

We plan to host a few more events over the course of this year and next to continue to raise funds for Myanmar and Ukraine. We would like to take this opportunity to ask anyone who is keen to fundraise for a particular cause to contact us via our social channels. We would be delighted to work together!”

Follow Liverpool Humanitarian Society on Facebook and Instagram and get in touch if you would like to set up a fundraising initiative with their support.

three women standing in a line, one of them holding a bouquet of flowers(L-R) Student Doctor Anika Chedalavada, Burmese caterer and Founder of Rice Over Evereything May Kyi Noo, Student Doctor and President of Liverpool Humanitarian Society Jessica Lwin and Student Doctor and Secretary of Liverpool Humanitarian Society Mahima Bharadwaj