Category Archives: Medical
Pic of the Day: Mobile Karen Medic
Young Karen health care workers work on teams of backpack medics and mobile clinics to serve villagers in remote areas. Worldwide Impact Now
Filed under Internal Displacement, Medical, Photography, Pic of the Day, The Initiatives, The Karen
Internal Displacement Report: February 3 – 7, 2010
The first week of February saw further attacks on civilians in Karen State, Eastern Burma by the country’s ruling dictators. While over 2,000 men, women and children lost their homes, a local health clinic was burned to the ground and … Continue reading
Filed under Internal Displacement, Medical, Photography, Refugees, Reports, The Initiatives, The People
Where Once Was Only Darkness…
In a small corner of a border refugee camp sits the Karen Handicap Welfare Association’s (KHWA) “Care Villa”. The on-going war in Eastern Burma produces many casualties, and currently 19 ethnic Karen receive care here, healing the injuries resulting from … Continue reading
Filed under Landmine Victims, Medical, Photography, The Initiatives
Medical Aid Beyond Borders
Karen farmers return to farm lands where the Burmese Army has placed landmines. Mobile medical clinics and backpack medics are the only care these farmers have in the war zone. In Eastern Burma, decades of civil war, wide spread human … Continue reading
Filed under Landmine Victims, Medical, Military, Photography, Support Programs, The Initiatives, The Karen, The People, WIN
Agricultural Training Center Destroyed
Although the above is the roof of our youth leader training center in a remote region of Karen State, it’s still a perfect example of the simple structures the Burmese Army routinely destroys. Here youth are trained to help their … Continue reading
Filed under Free Burma Rangers, Friends, Medical, Military, Photography, The Initiatives, The Karen, The People, Training
