Steve and Oddny Gumaer started Partners Relief and Development in response to the needs of refugees and displaced people from Burma, and now in the Middle East, as well. Their mission is to demonstrate, through holistic action, God’s love to children and communities made vulnerable by war in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other conflict zones. |
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Hadisa began teaching school when she was 15. That makes her almost a veteran today at age 18.
Her one-room schoolhouse is packed with 34 children and teenagers, ranging in age from 5 – 13 years old. They’re eager to learn, proudly carrying their colorful backpacks filled with pencils, composition books, reading texts, and math workbooks. Their blue and maroon uniforms show the world that they belong, that they have somewhere important to be, that they have a future.
These things matter when you’re Rohingya, violently uprooted from your home, and trying to find your way in a new, disorienting country like Bangladesh ...
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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. "We’re a small, grassroots nonprofit passionate about making a big impact in communities affected by conflict and oppression, demonstrating God’s love to children and giving them the opportunity to live free, full lives." For more information aboput Partners, visit their website at partners.ngo/
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