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, BGR partnerBurma Humanitarian Mission (BHM), teamed with Backpack Health Worker Teams (BPHWT) to provide mobile medical care to isolated ethnic villages and internally displaced person camps. The backpack medics are recruited from the people they will serve. This project with BGR funds the education for the medics’ children—55 children in 2018. The school is located in Mae Sot, Thailand, removed from the violence in Myanmar. Thirty-one students are children of medics working in Myanmar’s conflict zones, and 24 are children of backpack medics who staff the health workers’ office in Mae Sot. The students attend a migrant schoolÍ› 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. Additional funding from BGR will provide a food subsidy for the BPHWT staff in Mae Sot and their families. Annually renewable project
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, BGR partnerBurma Humanitarian Mission (BHM), teamed with Backpack Health Worker Teams (BPHWT) to provide mobile medical care to isolated ethnic villages and internally displaced person camps. The backpack medics are recruited from the people they will serve. This project with BGR funds the education for the medics’ children—55 children in 2018. The school is located in Mae Sot, Thailand, removed from the violence in Myanmar. Thirty-one students are children of medics working in Myanmar’s conflict zones, and 24 are children of backpack medics who staff the health workers’ office in Mae Sot. The students attend a migrant schoolÍ› 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. Additional funding from BGR will provide a food subsidy for the BPHWT staff in Mae Sot and their families. Annually renewable project
