The [him] moderator has received more information on the shelter programme from a reader:

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There are many  patients dependent on help from the shelter programme who travel to Yangon from up country to receive medicines in the city. When they are in Yangon, they stay at the shelter.

Until this year, seventy patients were living crowded together in three small rooms. Now a large two story building has been constructed in the garden that is spacious and airy. Because of this there are far fewer problems with overcrowding. New toilets have also been constructed and there is a good supply of water. Inverters help with the electricity situation.

If there is an issue with hygiene, the solution is to give more help, not less. The main thing is that the programme needs more funding. Up
to now, there has been a 'hands off' policy toward the shelter. This needs to stop!

The local community are, in general, supportive of the shelter. All in all, there is absolutely no reason for it to close. It provides a home
to the most vulnerable members of society and a lifeline to those who would otherwise have nowhere else to go.

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