Dear all,

Aiming to help the Burmese refugees along the Thai-Burma border and acknowledging the severe trauma naturally resulting from thousands experiencing some of the grossest human rights violations, our Burma Border Projects’ team began developing partnerships to help further educate refugees on identifying and treating the psychosocial consequences of the human rights abuses since its founding in 1999. As a result of our donors’ generosity, BBP has been able to continue, and in some cases expand, the vital services we provide to Burmese refugees, vulnerable migrant workers, and those who are stranded inside the border-- the internally displaced. Burma Border Projects has done its utmost to expand its programs and services to keep up with the ever increasing demand for our participation. By nature, we have always found it extremely difficult to “say no” to urgent and utterly reasonable requests for help coming from these people we have grown to know and love over the years.

I am excited to keep you informed about the Burmese situation, our partners on the border, and our involvement by taking you all along with me as I live and work in Mae Sot, Thailand as a member of the BBP team, starting this July!

Until then, please view these short clips from our DVD to better understand the situation in Burma and our response.

The Political and Human Rights Context
Refugee Conditions
The Mae Tao Clinic
Dr. Cynthia Maung
BBP's Future Goals

Sincerely yours,
Danielle Fox
Program & Development Director