Myanmar (Burma)

Medics' Children Education Project 

 

 
BGR's partner, the Burma Humanitarian Mission (BHM), is a U.S.-registered 501(c)3 based in Utah. In Myanmar, the army has oppressed, isolated, and attacked the country's ethnic minorities. The result has been a health crisis whereby 135 infants out of 1,000 do not survive their first month, while 60% of children's deaths could be prevented with basic medicine. In response, BHM teamed with Backpack Health Worker Teams (BPHWT) to provide mobile medical care to isolated ethnic villages and internally displaced people's camps. The backpack medics are recruited from the people they will serve. This project with BGR funds the education for 50 of the medics' children in 2019. The school is located in Mae Sot, Thailand, removed from the violence in Myanmar. The students attend a migrant school͛ in Mae Sot, known as the Child Development Center. The grant from BGR will fund students' uniforms, socks, shoes, backpacks, lunchbox, notebooks, pens and pencils, and other school materials as well as the school administration fee. Annually renewable project