This week I’m off to the Thai-Burmese border as one of a team of 32 medics who are heading out
to a refugee camp to train 25 'medics'. I’ll be teaching on the ‘Paediatric
Week’. These students will return as community healthcare workers to 32 Karen
medical clinics in the mountains to treat the 400,000 internally displaced
Karen who have been terrorized by the Military Junta for decades.
Burma has the 24th highest population in the world, just
a bit lower than the UK. Despite this, there is a high mortality rate, with
many deaths from malaria, AIDS, typhoid and diarrhoea. Nearly 40% of this people group are children!
As change comes to Burma, the exiled and displaced groups
– refugees, migrants and political activists – will need skills to help rebuild
the country and achieve a lasting, sustainable peace. The skills needed to bring about this
change are the main priority of HOPE 4 the World, the organisation I am
travelling with.
We are all self-funded, but we are raising £10,000 towards the
training course, which costs £583 per student, (£3 20 pence /day) for all
transport, accommodation and food!
Will you consider giving financially to invest in these young
people who will go out with skills to help bring sustainable medical care to
this neglected people group? If so, please visit my Justgiving page HERE.
Thank
you
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