Category Myanmar

Myanmar

Refugee, migrant and IDP children in Burma get school supplies from KIRF

KIRF has been getting needed school supplies and some food aid to IDP (“internally displaced people”) children in conflict areas in the Eastern Karen State of Burma and to child refugees in northern Thailand since 2008. We have been able…

Myanmar

Photos from Burma of KIRF school supplies at IDP camps

We just got two envelopes of photos taken inside of Burma of two IDP (Internally Displaced Person) refugee camp schools with the new school supplies we sent them via our local partners. We paid for textbooks, writing supplies, art supplies,…

Angela Kirwin
August 21, 2008

Myanmar

KIRF is getting disaster relief supplies into Burma (Myanmar)

Field Report by Mark Kirwin Mae Sot, Thailand June 10, 2008 The tragedy in Burma from Cyclone Nargis that his on May 2nd is far worse than what we have been lead to believe. During the last few days, I…

Angela Kirwin
July 21, 2008

Field Report, Myanmar

Field Report: KIRF getting disaster relief supplies into Burma (Myanmar)

The tragedy in Burma from Cyclone Nargis that hit on May 2nd is far worse than what we have been lead to believe. During the last few days, I have interviewed Burmese refugees and seen footage of the tragedy that…

Angela Kirwin
June 10, 2008

Field Report, Myanmar

Field Report: KIRF Assisting Karen refugees from Myanmar with medical supplies donated by Ventura dentist and others

The young Asian woman told me that the Burmese military placed land mines in her family’s rice field. So she fled with her family across the border from Burma to the Thailand border refuge camps. They had no money in…

Angela Kirwin
June 15, 2007

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