Members of Friends Church have the awesome opportunity to work with Partners.

View photos taken in the refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border.

Partners works primarily with refugees and displaced people. The Karen come from Burma, a country torn by 50 years of war inflicted by a brutal military regime. There are more than 200,000 refugees in camps along the Thai-Burma border and more than 1 million internally displaced people on the run inside Burma.

The regime carries out systematic repression of the people of Burma, including ongoing ethnic cleansing campaigns against minority groups and pro-democracy groups. They oppress the population with random arrests, extra-judicial killings, rape, forced labor and military service, torture, burning of villages, stealing food and land, and destruction of the environment.

There are more than 50,000 child soldiers in Burma, more than any other country in the world.

The people of Burma suffer terribly and Partners works to ease their pain, aid them in survival, and help them to keep the hope that is found in God.

To Learn more about Partners you can go to
www.partnersworld.org