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THIRD QUARTER 2010
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Partners Magazine Third Quarter 2010
Publisher Partners Relie & Development
Our visiOn Free, ull lives or the children o Burma
FOunders Steve & Oddny Gumaer
COntributOrs Stuart & Ruth Corlett, Hosannah Valentine,Sonya Claase, Steve & Oddny Gumaer, Claire Gibbons, Sacha Olson.
PhOtOs Stuart Corlett, Free Burma Rangers, Steve Gumaer,
Chris Dolan, Brenden Allen, K'Chay.
layOut and design Sacha Olson
Printed in Thailand
Partners Relie & Development 2010.
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FrOnt COver Children playing at Mae Pa Dump
PhOtOgraPher Brenden Allen
"The Mae Pa Rubbish dump near Mae Sot, Thailand is home to many
migrant Burmese amilies, seeking reuge and a better way o lie rom
the one they have ed only a ew kilometres away in Burma. Families
live atop the rubbish and try and carve out some sort o existence by
scouring the trash or anything o value."
SOMBAT
FARM MANAGER
Sombat is the most recent addition to the
Development Team based in Chiang Mai. He is
the Farm Manager and is an incredibly humble,
servanthearted man who is oten the rst to
oer assistance to others in the team.
MARCI & BE SOE TOEKAREN HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT
Marci Haigh, an experienced nurse rom the USA
who has already spent six years working with Karen
medical clinics and patients, is our new Karen
Medical Projects Manager. Her antastic husband,
Be Soe Toe, has joined our team as well to
coordinate development projects. They have a
beautiul eight month old baby girl called Nenana.
SECRET SUPERHEROESSHAN & KAREN PROJECTS
We have our new sta members who have joinedus in the last six months that cannot be named orpictured or security reasons. Two are working withShan Projects and two with Karen Projects.
They risk their lives everyday to bring training andrelie inside Burma.
MAUREENUSA NATIONAL DIRECTOR
Maureen Beighey has been part o the Partnersamily or some time and is now in a new role asNational Director o Partners Relie & Development,USA. She's been actively involved with Partners'work since 2006, ater meeting and alling in lovewith the beautiul people o Burma.
NIT NOYHOUSEKEEPER
Nit Noy is a Thai Karen rom Chiang Rai provinceand is a relative o two o our other sta. Shehas a beautiul rock star son called Guitar who isone and a hal years old. She always has a smileon her ace as she keeps the ofce clean andhelps with projects.
NEW STAFFWELCOME TO THE FAMILY
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This smmer my wie and I, along with or three daghters
and Bob Marley, or energetic labradoodle climbed a
montain in Songdar, Norway. From the top o this peak,which oerlooked Lster Fjord, we were srronded by
majestic beaty and elt close to the athor o loe. As we
hiked, I reected on loe and its demands.
What is the power o loe? What is it that makes loe
isible and nstoppable? Some may say it is sentiment and
others, prayer. I beliee it is neither. Sentiment is needed
and prayer is essential to the mechanics o loe, bt once
the closet o prayer is closed, how is loe eshed ot? How
will people in London, Ackland, Sydney, Birmingham,
Melborne, and Christchrch nderstand loe's grip
today? How will the people o Brma nderstand that loe
cannot be stolen by a dictatorship?
Jess oercame eil with good, bt it reqired hisdeath. Now that's powerl loe: a person gies their lie so
that others may lie. This is the complete opposite o how
General Than Shwe and his 500,000 soldiers rle Brma.
The might they wield is reckless and absie.
Yo will see some examples o that powerl loe in
this magazine. Start Corlett writes abot or work with
Shan people to make loe real; the determined actions
that bring hope and lie to thosands o lnerable people.
Read his article and deotion on Habakkk. It will bless
yo. St helps me see what the power o loe is all abot.
Or team gies 150% to bring edcation and capacity
to the children o Brma. Read Sonya's article on how their
tenacity and commitment to make God's loe isible hasreslted in more than 80,000 children, een kids on the rn
and in hiding rom the regime, haing the chance to learn
maths, reading and science in Karen State.
Grace International School is jst one good example
o the hndreds o people who make what we do possible.
The money the stdents raised meant that loe had a gas
tank, a pair o shoes and a representatie. We eatred the
article abot their eent or yor encoragement.
As we at Partners work to bring Christ and His loe
to the hills o Karen State, the montains o Shan State
and into the plains o Brma's millions, we depend on or
partnership with yo.
I remember this eeryday whether I am in the jngle,in Thailand or on a montain in Norway. As yo trn these
pages, celebrate with s His powerl loe. Celebrate the
act that the people o Brma hae seen the light o loe
and will eer be changed by it.
STEvE GuMAER
CEO, Partners Relie & Deelopment
"PowER wITHoUT lovE Is REcklEss AnD AbUsIvE, AnD lovE wITHoUT
PowER Is sEnTImEnTAl AnD AnAEmIc." - mARTIn lUTHER kIng, JR.
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Good Lie Club storyby Hosannah Valentine
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Tho Htoo is 11 years old but looks like hesnine; small and thin but bright-eyed. Hes insecond grade. I interviewed him becausehis house had been burned down twomonths beore and I wanted to hear hisstory in his own words. One week ater thisinterview, his amily packed and ran again asthe Burma Army again sent patrols towardhis village.
Dah Wah is 19 and is in rst grade. Both o her
parents died o ever when she was ve years old. She
lived with her aunt and uncle in a village that oten
had to run rom Burma Army attacks, sometimes
as many as 10 times a year. The rest o her time
was spent helping her amily nd ood. She had
no time or school. Now she lives in her townshipheadquarters and the Karen National Union KNU
supports her schooling.
These are two o the nearly 3,000 students
rom over 50 schools who came to Good Lie Club
programs in northern Karen State in December and
January. Out o 54 schools, three were high schools
and 10 were middle schools. 41 o the schools were
primary schools. This means in 41 villages out o
54, children have no option or school ater primary
school or at least no options that dont require them
to leave their amilies and move to a dierent village.
This means that or most children in Karen State
education stops ater 5th grade. And school, such as it
is, is interrupted by Burma Army attacks, by untreated
illness, by hunger and the struggle to nd ood. This
is not just education at risk this is a peoples hope or
the uture at risk.
And loss seems imminent.
When amilies are hiding, living under makeshit
shelters in the jungle, rationing out the little ood they
are able to carry and hoping the marauding soldiers
will turn back beore its gone; when teachers are
trying to decide whether to attempt to have class inthe jungle or wait until they have a classroom and
maybe a routine with no guarantee that will happen;
when the people are locked into the binding struggle
or immediate survival; when children too young to
ully understand lie already bear the burden o death
this is when hope can be lost.
It is into this situation, precisely this situation
when things are at their worst, that the Free Burma
Rangers and Good Lie Club come. They bring help
in the orm o medicine and ood and additional
security rom oncoming attacks. They bring gits
rom people around the world, accompanied by
messages rom those people o support and prayerand encouragement. They bring a childrens program
o singing, games, health teaching and the message
that God oers reedom rom ear and can redeem
any circumstance. They give the children a chance to
be children again, or a day at least.
The Good Lie Club counsellors volunteer
because they love children. Free Burma Rangers FBR
teams are volunteers who love and want to serve their
people. And so seeds o love are planted, during each
mission and in each program, seeds whose ower is
hope and yield is reedom.
The thie comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I
came that they may hae lie, and hae it abndantly.John 10:10 (ESv)
Hosannah Valentine is a Free Burma Ranger, a re ghter
and a deender o reedom. She helps lead the Good Lie Club
program and trainings in tough places across Burma.
Partners Relie & Development helps und and train relie team members or the Good Lie Club program in
partnership with the Free Burma Rangers. The ollowing words describe what the program looks like on the ground.
Eery year the Good Lie Clb isits Tha Dah Der illage, in Mthraw District, or a big program
beore it heads o to the rest o its mission. Children rom Tee M Der, Dah Oh Der and Daw Kah To Bawillages also come. These illages are all 23 hors rom a major Brma Army camp and hae to ee rom
attacks nearly eery year. They hae always been able to retrn to their homes and they welcome the
FBR teams and participate whole-heartedly in the Good Lie Clb.
One child who came was Naw Noe, now a stdent at New Generation School, a high school in
Mthraw District. This year Naw Noe and 13 o her 10th grade classmates accompanied the Good Lie
Clb or seeral weeks o the GLC school tor. They helped lead singing, perormed dramas and became
part o the team. Like Naw Noe, they all had stories o rnning away rom attacking Brma Army soldier
instability and losing parents or siblings. Like her, they were all determined to come back and help their
people. Good Lie Clb had come ll-circle, and those children who had once been participants were
now leading.
THADAHDERvILLAGE.
InJuly2010thisillagew
asattackedandburnedbytheSPDC.
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I am reminded o a Shan girl who was raped by Burma soldiers at 12 years old ater having seen her amily
and riends burned alive, only hours previously.
It's easy to eel depressed. God this is just too much. The stories become overwhelming and we cry
out, God, you dont seem to be here. Where are you?
And God sure takes his time. it seems.
There are thousands o people inside Burma and outside who daily pray or reedom in that country.
There are aithul men and women who risk their lives to serve God and people in that country. But,
decades later, no change seems to be on the horizon. It eels rustrating.
And it eels hopeless.
The massive, technologically advanced Burma army against just a ew under-resourced ragtag
groups in the hills protecting wounded and innocent civilians brutalised by attacks. The odds seemimpossible.
In the book o Habakkuk there are three simple chapters.
In Chapter One Habakkuk has a lot to complain about. Mostly things like Ive mentioned above.
In Chapter Two God gives him an answer, and it's mostly to remind the prophet about Gods real character.
He reminds the prophet that He is a God o JUSTICE. and that justice will come.
In Chapter Three Habakkuk stops complaining. He reminds us o the awesomeness o God, the
greatness and the beauty. and then he makes this amous statement: Though the g tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop ails and the elds produce no ood, though
Like many other people in history, Habakkuk the prophet observed massiveinjustice in the world. He asked God: Where are you when it hurts?
What do you do when the rich rob the poor blind, when orphans are madeand destroyed, when the weak are taken advantage of? We all struggle withthis question. Te compassion in us drives us to give, work to change the worldand to pray.
Te world is at times an incredibly nasty place.
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there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet
I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyul in God my Saviour.Habakkuk 3:17,18a
It eels hopeul.
I have glimpsed this attitude in the weakest o people,
amongst reugees and internally displaced people rom
Burma, even amongst those who we think are ar rom God
and yet are somehow drawing close to him.
Last year I witnessed three special examples o thisattitude amongst students training to be Community
Health Care Workers in Buddhist Shan State.
One man walked three months to reach the
training and three months home again. He made a canoe
rom a tree he cut down to cross the massive Salween river
so he could reach the training and serve his people with
health care in his village.
One man had been a soldier since he was very
young a child soldier. He worked through the struggles o
his past to learn to heal people instead o kill them.
One young woman, who had a university degree
rom Burma, risked her identity and lie to be at our training
so that she could care or people. She put this ahead oher own career and uture. This year she will be one o
our senior trainers in the program. There were another 57
students with stories like this.
Heres a summary o their attitude:
Though our rice supplies are stolen and our houses
burned down, though our women are raped, and our
parents murdered, though we have not a cent to our name,
and struggle or ood and water. Yet we will hope.
Heres the interesting twist:
Many o these young people are beginning to respond
to God their Saviour.Hope leads to hope.
So, I wont get depressed, and I might even stop
complaining. I will look to see God at work, to nd where he
is working and to join in because I like what He does.
Stuart Corlett, rom New Zealand, leads our programs in Shan State.
He's a Dad, a phenomenal photographer, a uent Thai speaker and
semi-proessional at executing hand brake turns in his black Honda.
y stuart crett
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Every parent wants their child to receive agood education; an education that prepares themor lie, love and happiness. Indeed, we hold this asa basic right that every person should be ableto enjoy.
Imagine now that the world you live in is too uncertain, too
dangerous or your child to go to school. What would you
do? Educate them yoursel? Even i you have to spend your
entire day bent over in a rice eld so you can eed the rest o
your amily? Perhaps even send them to school somewheresaer?
For the Karen people o Burma, education is held in
very high esteem. Many Karen parents make the difcult
choice to send their children to schools in nearby towns and
villages or even to reugee camps in neighbouring Thailand,
oten braving many hardships and dangers. The decision to
send their child away is not without tremendous emotional
costs to both the child and the amily. Given the precarious
nature o lie in their villages, parents know that there is no
guarantee that they will ever be united again as a amily.
The harsh truth is that or many internally displaced
Karen children, education is a distant dream. The reality o
a lie on the run and hiding in makeshit jungle camps hasrobbed them o an education and a quality o lie that most
consider a basic right. Understandably, parents are desperate
to give their children an education and a uture, even i it
means never seeing them again.
The problems dont stop when the child gets to
school either. In Burma, the political, social and economic
hardships endured by communities at the hands o the
Burma Army have severely limited their capacity to support
teachers, students and schools. Malnutrition, disease,
security issues and general poverty all contribute to poor
student perormance and attendance in school. Teachers
have no time to grow their own ood due to their teachingresponsibilities and must depend on their communities
or ood or money. When a community cannot support
educators' basic needs, it becomes extremely difcult or
teachers to remain in their positions, and the educational
quality o lie or the entire community suers.
Access to education is limited in conict areas,
particularly or those children who want to study beyond
the primary level. In most villages, whether temporary or
established, there are no government-supported schools.
But there is hope! What does exist is a network o more
than 1,000 community-run schools across Karen State, Burma
that includes six high schools. Many o these schools consist
o little more than a ew bamboo benches under a tree.Rocks are used as writing boards, and books, pencils, paper
are scarce to non-existent. The ew supplies available to
these schools are requently lost or destroyed in Burma Army
attacks. One o the last things any o us would pick up when
eeing would be our school books.
Our goal at Partners is to work collaboratively with the
other organisations that are already working within the area
o education in Karen State. In November 2005, the Karen
Education Department KED, the Karen Teachers Working
Group KTWG and Partners Relie & Development PRAD
agreed to pool, coordinate and jointly distribute education
assistance to the Karen State schools, orming KSEAG Karen
State Education Assistance Group. The aim o KSEAG is toensure that all schools, teachers and students in Karen State
receive the best possible education assistance in a systematic
manner that is air to all involved.
Together with others, Partners has successully worked
as part o KSEAG to:
Decrease the attrition rates o Karen State teachers
resulting rom abject poverty.
Enhance the mental, physical and social development
o Karen students by providing school and health
materials.
EDUCATIONIN A WARZONEkAREn sTATE, bURmA
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Increase the capacity o Karen State education
leaders in the management o the Karen
education system.
There are currently 1,049schools,3,981teachers and more
than 83,920students in Karen State. These numbers uctuate
depending on current situations on the ground, but they give
you a glimpse into the size and scope o this eort.
At the beginning o this year 414,442notebooks, 279,652
pens, 306,120pencils,987ootballs,13,440boxes o chalk,
987Karen-English dictionaries,66,671vitamin kits, and much
more were delivered to schools all across Karen State. Themajority o the 103,237kilograms o materials had to be
carried on the backs o over 10,000 community volunteers
who had to walk up to three weeks to return to their homes.
At the end o each school year, KSEAG provides a
subsidy or each teacher. In 2009, KSEAG gave each teacher
a 2,500 THB (approx. $75 uSD). While this might seem like
a small amount, it goes a long way towards ensuring the
wellbeing and health o the teachers in these devastated areas.
Karen State Education Assistance is the most
comprehensive education support program in a conict zone,
not just in Burma, but the world. The scale o this operation
is massive and complex, especially due to the conict, but it
works because o the tremendous level o local communitysupport, and because people all over the world are working
together with communities to bring lie, love and hope to these
precious children.
By Sonya Claase
Sonya Claase is a phenomenal leader, a passionate advocate or the
Karen people and is the Director o Karen Projects and our Mae Sot ofce.
She's also a busy mother and is married to a handsome Karen man who
courageously serves his people.
EACH DOTREPRESENTSONE SCHOOL &
TOGETHER THEYREPRESENTTHE HOPE OF83,920 STUDENTSWHO ARE ABLETO LEARN.
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Sports camps, art workshops, Christmas parties,Childrens Day celebrations and trips to the zoo.These are just some o the many un ways thatstudents rom Grace International School inChiang Mai, Northern Thailand have been bringinglove in action to children rom Burma over thepast three years.
One special way that Grace students connect is through the
Sports Department's Sports Leadership program. This program
includes students organising and leading sports camps or
underprivileged schools. For the past three years students have
visited a migrant school at Phoppra near Mae Sot, that Partners
helps und. Each year they have run sports camps and unactivities like ace painting, parachute games, water balloon
catapulting, glow stick games, t-shirt painting and movies on
a big screen. One year, 8,000 glow sticks were donated or use
at one o the camps by an underground church in China by
parents o students boarding at Grace!
Matt Coe, the teacher o the 17 Grace Sports Leaders said,
With no street lights, the giant game o capture-the-ag one night
using 500 glow sticks was especially brilliant and the screeches o
delight rom the children made it all the more special. On Sunday
the Sports Leaders and the Karen children shared testimonies and
worship in their church a very moving time or all.
GRACE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
STUDENTS MAKING A DIFFERENCE
FOR CHILDREN FROM BURMA
kids helping kids
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Dylan Coe 12 years old wrote: When we give the kids
a colouring page and some colours they treasure them like
I would treasure an X-box or a computer. I have learned that
there are people in the world who are not as ortunate as me
and so we need to love them and help them.
Pastor Peaceully the pastor at the migrant school
shared with Matt Coe that he was particularly grateul or the
way Matt and the Sports Leaders have mentored his senior
students in leadership training over the course o their visits.
He constantly marveled at the many and varied ways the
oreign students ound to have enormous amounts o un
with his students.
Last year the Sports Leaders also ran a very successul
sports camp in a Thai village close to the Thai-Burma border.This village is close to a Shan displaced persons camp where
some o Partners' Shan work is based. The students were
invited back several months later to run the Childrens Day
celebrations or more than 300 children. The program they
ran was so well received by the village and surrounding
community that Partners now has greater access to the
displaced Shan and are able to deliver more relie supplies,
training equipment and trainers into the area than ever beore.
At Grace International School graduation each year,
it is common to hear the senior students speak o how
ministering each year in a migrant village or Partners
Children's Home is a highlight o their high school years.
This year, one o the graduating students gave this advice:
Dont waste time hanging out at the mall or doing
random stu in your spare time. Instead, make the most o
the great opportunities there are, to do things or others.
They will be the great memories you will remember long
ater you have let school.
Ruth Corlett is a great mum to three Grace International School
students and is also National Director o Partners Relie & Development
in New Zealand. She is passionate about the children o Burma and
loves that her kids are able to be involved too!
by Ruth Corlett
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DANIEL&KA
THRYN
K R I T S A N A
& Y U T T A P O O M
CONGRATULATIONS&FAR
EWELL
Loe has been in the air at Partners oer the past six months. Kritsana, the Mae Sot oce manager,
married Yttapoom in her home illage in Northern Thailand in March. Most o the Thailand team were
able to be there to help them celebrate their big day and hae the special priilege o enjoying the
traditional Karen dress, ood and ceremony. Also congratlations to Kathryn Halley rom Partners Astralia
and Daniel Charman rom Partners New Zealand, who married in Sydney, Astralia in Jly. A nmber o
the Thailand team were also able to join with them on their special day. We want to wish Kritsana,
Ytapoom, Kathryn and Daniel God's richest blessing oer their relationships as they set o on the exciting
jorney o marriage.
The Partners amily was sad to see Spencer Kerrigan
leae or team at the end o May. Since early 2008, we
hae been blessed to hae Spencer as the National
Director o Partners Relie & Deelopment uSA. His
commitment to helping the people o Brma was so
clearly shown throgh eery acet o his work. We will
miss the constant stream o emails with hge ideas andexcitement, his passion or change in Brma, his prayerl
encoragement and his skills at networking and inspiring
Americans to connect with the sitation in Brma. With
two little ones growing p qickly, Spencer has moed on
to a new career that will allow him and his wie Lyssa
to spend more time at home. We wish him eery sccess
in this new adentre.
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Jesus, you are the greatest teacher o all.
You speak to us and teach us wisdom that only you can give. Thank you orleading us and guiding us. Thank you for teaching us.
We pray or the children in Burma who are in such great need o teachers not only teachers,
but schools and supplies too. And, not only that, but they need peace to study.
Today we pray or the schools supported by Partners.
We pray or the teachers who give sacricially o themselves to teach thousands o
children, oten with little resources, education and security. Give them your peace and
wisdom. Protect them from all harm.
We pray or the students in the schools. The thousands o children who desire to learn and
to reach their potential. They dont have the luxuries we have in our schools. A notebook
and a pen may be all they have or supplies. Sometimes not even that. We pray that they will
be able to learn and understand. We pray that you will keep them safe as they study.
We pray or the Partners staf and villagers who risk a lot to bring supplies and
salaries to the schools and to the teachers. Give them strength to carry on, and
protect them on perilous journeys.
We pray or all those that work on the logistics o keeping the schools running in Burma's warzones.
We pray that you will keep the unds coming to continue the wonderul work with the schools
in Burma. Help us do what we do with excellence and help us do more.
Most of all we pray that there will be peace in Burma and that there will be a
day when all children can go to school in their own communities, without fear.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
DIRECTOR'S
DESKDear Friends,
I hope yo will hae ond the articles throghot this
magazine both challenging and inspiring. For so many who are
in great need in Brma, Partners Relie & Deelopment really
does oer the only real chance o hope. With Gods help, we
are oten the frst to reach those who are in desperate need,
proiding mch needed srial aid sch as ood, shelter,
medicine and clothing.
I know we oten say it, bt it remains tre that we can
only achiee the things we do throgh the grace o God and
the generosity o His people.
I yor heart has been toched by the importance oedcating Brmas next generation, please do respond to or
edcation projects appeal on pages 8-9.
I wold also like to ask yo to consider giing a reglar
monthly git to be distribted generally throghot or work,
where the need is greatest.
Haing a steady and reliable income is essential or s to
achiee or ision o Free ll lies or the children o Brma.
Reglar gits allow s to plan and bdget more eectiely
and mean we can respond qickly and sccesslly with ital
help where and when it is needed most. Also, when yo gie
in this way or administration costs are ct, as payments are
atomated throgh yor bank straight to ors.
Yo can fnd ot all the inormation yo need abot
setting p a reglar git on the response slip enclosed.
With loe & in solidarity or the people o Brma,
Sarah Armitage
uK NATIONAL DIRECTOR
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8/3/2019 Learn Love Live 2010
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