Kachin State is in the forefront when it comes to making donations for victims of Cyclone Nargis. It has donated over 1,000 million Kyats an estimated US $847,458.  Kachin's is the highest funds accumulated and donated among seven states in military-ruled Burma, local sources said.

The final figure arrived at was calculated on the basis of cash donations and relief materials like medical supplies, blankets and clothes from the whole of Kachin State in Northern Burma, said a source close to the office of Kachin State Peace and Development Council (Pa-Ya-Ka) in Myitkyina Township, the capital of Kachin State.

The figure accounted for collections made between late May to early July and the donations from Kachin State were sent to victims of Cyclone Nargis-devastated Irrawaddy River Delta through the Burmese ruling junta from time to time.

Majoi Gintawng Sutdu Yup Zau Hkawng, a local Kachin businessman and owner of Jadeland Myanmar Co. Ltd., made a huge donation of 138 million Kyats equivalent to an estimated US $123,214 to cyclone victims through Pa-Ya-Ka in May.

The junta's Kachin State organizer and Minister of Post, Communication and Telegraph Brig-Gen. Thein Zaw praised the efforts at making the donation to the cyclone fund by Kachin State when he met Kachin Christian leaders in Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) in Myitkyina on July 6.

At the same time, the new Kachin State or Northern Command (Ma-Pa-Kha) Commander Maj-Gen Soe Win was also proud and expressed it by saying “Kachin State's donation for cyclone victims is the highest among seven states in the country”, when he first met Kachin Christian leaders of all denominations in Myitkyina.

In Kachin State, the junta did not allow volunteers, religious organizations, non-government organizations to help in relief programmes in the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta as it did reserved firefighters, red cross, members of the junta-sponsored Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), police and other government personnel.