Mawta
Mawta is a Mara word for famine related to bamboo flowering (Melocanna baccifera), a rare phenomenon that occurs once in every 50 years, when the most common tree of the forest in the region - bamboo flower and produce a fruit rich in nutrients, the fruit attracts a plague of forest rats feasting and reproducing in a rapid rate; once they finished the bamboo fruits they start attacking crops in the fields devouring all the standing crops leaving nothing to the farmers for harvest. The effect lasts up to 5 years. MFRC is working to help the victims meet their basic needs by distributing their daily needs and how to initiate an alternate methods of farming or livelihood through sympathisers and donors across the globe.
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Mawta Famine Relief expand work to Zophei, Khumi and Lautu victims
SIAHA, Mizoram - Mawta Famine Relief Committee (MFRC), an NGO working directly with Mawta famine victims among Mara people in Chin state has expanded its good work among other tribes most effected by the mawta phenomenon. Read the rest of this entry »
DFID Hailed For Its Response To Food Crisis In Chin State
Chinland Guardian, 06 October, 2008 - Chin communities, churches and individuals across the globe welcomed DFID’s ‘philanthropic’ responses to the devastating food crisis that has been facing the Chin people in Burma’s Chin State since late 2006. Read the rest of this entry »
Burmese Army extorts money and live stock from hungry villagers
(Khonumthung News) September 27 - Burmese Army soldiers have been demanding livestock and money from starving villagers in areas that are severely affected by acute food shortage in southern Chin state, western Burma. Read the rest of this entry »
BBC Radio - English - Starvation in Burma’s Chin state
One of Burma’s smallest ethnic minorities, the Mara, say hundreds of their people have starved to death. Read the rest of this entry »
Rampaging rats bring starvation to Burma
By Bernadette Carroll
BBC News, Chin state, Burma
In Burma’s north-west Chin state, thousands of people say they are starving. The Mara tribe say hundreds of their community have died in the past two months alone. Read the rest of this entry »
BBC Burmese Radio broadcasts Mawta famine crisis in Chin state
NEW DELHI - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Burmese Radio on Thursday evening broadcasted a documentary on Mawta Famine Crisis in Chin State in Western Myanmar which is made available for net users to be able to listen from any place where intenet is accessible. Read the rest of this entry »
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