May 5th, 2022
Refugees from Nanmaphyit IDP camp in Hpakant Township in Kachin State are in need of help to build sleeping wards and teaching wards in the new place, officials of the IDP camp said.
“The IDPs are to move from the privately-owned land to the land owned by the Church association. They are in need of help to build wards in the new place. The land owner allowed them to stay free of charge. Now the land owner has told the IDPs to relocate since October. We have told the land owner to relocate as quickly as possible,” Daw Jar Ohn, an in-charge of the IDP camp.
We are in need of wards, five school wards, one store room, two bath rooms, ten toilets and three fireplaces, for ten IDP families, the incharge of the IDP camp said.
More than 40 households are taking shelter on a private-owned land near the IDP camp with the permission of the landowner free of charge as the Nanmaphyit IDP camp is full of refugees. Now the landowner told the IDPs to relocate at the end of 2021.
More than 40 households and more than 100 populations have been living on the privately-owned land for more than eight years, the IDPs said.
Around 30 households from the IDP camp moved to the vacant wards in Nanmaphyit Church in March, 2022. More than 10 households and nearly 40 populations remain on the private-owned land as there are no vacant wards in the Church.
Daw Khaw Sin Nan, a refugee said: “The date has been fixed for relocation. Some refugees have moved to the new IDP camp while some IDPs remain at the old IDP camps.
Daw Jar Ohn, an incharge of the IDP said: “We need a lot of funds for the relocation of the IDPs. Currently, we have not received assistance from the organizations to build the shelters.”
As the in-charges from the IDP camps asked for help from the village administrators to build the new shelters, the village administrators visited the IDP camp in late March. However, they have not received help till now.
Nanmaphyit IDP camp is located in Nanmaphyit village in Hpakant Township. It is a Kachin IDP camp which has 97 households and more than 500 populations.
The people from Seikgatkhu, Kansee, Aungbarlay and Hmawsardee villages near Hpakant Township, Indwatyan-Sawparabwan Township and Moemauk are taking shelter at these IDP camps due to the refreshed fighting between the military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in 2011.
Sent by the NMG.