Burma Children Medical Fund

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@Siam_Sam

Their UK partner is that notorious terrorist organization, the Karen Refugee Camps Women’s Development Group. If we cross our fingers and hope real hard, they might not use the money to shoot American soldiers.

Ah yes, that wretched hive of scum and villainy.

I’m trying to see if they have a Norwegian partner or equivalent, but if not I’ll drop them my Christmas donation to the Thailand account directly. As good a cause as I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks for bringing it into the spotlight, Siam Sam!

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@Siam_Sam

There was a story in the Bangkok Post in October about one of the patients, an 18-year-old girl named Ma Wint. You can read that here. Her case was exceptional because she needed treatment for bleeding on the brain that could only be obtained here in Bangkok. I am acquainted with the Aussie writer of that story, who is the husband of BCMF founder and director Kanchana Thornton. A friend of mine last month ran in a marathon in Bangkok with the goal of raising money for her treatment cost of 300,000 baht (US$10,000). (Like me, he’s in his 50s and just a couple of years behind me in age! :eek:) I can tell you the money was raised, thanks mainly to foreign donations, for her radiation treatment, which was performed in Bangkok’s Ramathibodi Hospital a couple of weeks ago. It seems to have gone well, and Ma Wint has returned to Mae Sot already and is maybe even back in Burma now. So her case is closed, but there are others.

I hope it’s okay to bring this up again, but there was a nice follow-up to Ma Wint’s case in Sunday’s Bangkok Post, and I thought it would be good to link to that. You can read that here. The “Bangkok-based journalist” mentioned who ran 10K is my friend I mentioned in the post above, an Aussie.