A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has devastated huge areas of Myanmar.

Thousands of people have been injured and the death toll is rising. Many more have no access to the safe shelter, clean water, food and medical care they need to survive.

Countless roads and buildings have been destroyed, including hospitals, schools and water supplies. Network and power lines are down. People are cut off from vital services.

Myanmar was already facing a severe humanitarian crisis with a third of the population in need of humanitarian aid. Now the situation is catastrophic.

DEC charities are already on the ground in affected communities and are working hard to access remote areas.

They urgently need more funds to scale up their work and reach the most vulnerable. Please give now.

Donate today and your gift will be doubled by the UK Government, who will match pound-for-pound up to £5 million donated by the public to this appeal.

£10 could provide urgently needed water to ten families for a day  

£50 could provide emergency food for a family for one month 

£100 could provide essential hygiene supplies for 10 families for 3 months 

For more information on how and where DEC member charities are responding, please visit dec.org.uk