Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Partners Blog: "Going above and beyond to save a life"

Steve and Oddny Gumaer started Partners Relief and Development in response to the needs of refugees and displaced people from Burma. Their mission is to demonstrate, through holistic action, God’s love to children and communities made vulnerable by war in Burma.

Going above and beyond to save a life

My name is Saw Maw Law, I am 34 years old and in charge of one of the mobile health clinics Partners supports. During the years of fighting, our clinic was in the mountains, moving place to place to find a secure location to provide health care to my people.

After the ceasefire, the situation was more stable, so we moved down to the new lake that was created by the government hydroelectric dam. This location is near the villagers and easy for the transportation of patients and medical supply. Because the situation has been stable, we decided to build a new clinic building with stable material. I have 18 health workers that I manage in our clinic ...

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Partners Relief and Development is a registered charity in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States, working with communities impacted by war in Burma. For more information aboput Partners, visit their website at partnersworld.org/

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