Hi, I trust you are well and thanks for stopping by mine and my son’s fundraising page. 

As you read this mums, dads, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, and grandparents, like the ones you have (and I imagine love) are being bombed, tortured, raped and driven from their homes and villages to live on the run under whatever shelter they can find and build in Burma. 

People I have met who have been able to flee Burma over the border are such warm hearted and beautiful people. Quick to laugh and show kindness despite the horrors they have seen and experienced. They are just like you and I and desperately need help. Free the Oppressed do amazing multi faceted work in Burma helping the kids be kids, providing food, front line medical aid, land mine removal as well as photographing and documenting the genocide and human rights breaches to report them. They do all this amongst other things voluntarily and I am asking you to help me raise money to support them please. Whatever you can give to sponsor Rossi and I get cold, wet and muddy training and then completing our run please do. Don’t think “I’ll do it later” do it now please.

You can watch the movie “Free Burma Rangers” via amazon prime.

You may not even know where Burma is, the Burmese government have tried to rebrand it as Myanmar, either way it sits to the north and west of Thailand and the East of Bangladesh. Over 70 years of civil war, longest running in the world, have left Burma one of the poorest countries in the world. During this time, successive military dictatorships killed thousands of their own people and displaced millions in resistance areas, while effectively strangling the political process in areas under their complete control.

Read more about Free the Oppressed 

https://www.freeburmarangers.org/fto/

Free the Oppressed (FTO) supports the work of the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), which is a multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement working to bring help, hope and love to people in the conflict zones of Burma, Iraq, and Sudan. Working in conjunction with local ethnic pro-democracy groups, FBR trains, supplies, and later coordinates with what become highly mobile multipurpose relief teams. After training these teams provide critical emergency medical care, shelter, food, clothing and human rights documentation in their home regions.

Read more about genocide in Burma;

https://www.freeburmarangers.org/category/reports/

Over 70 years of civil war, longest running in the world, have left Burma one of the poorest countries in the world. During this time, successive military dictatorships killed thousands of their own people and displaced millions in resistance areas, while effectively strangling the political process in areas under their complete control.

Recent developments in the government have included allowing opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) to run and win in by-elections. There is more openness and less censorship in Burma, ongoing ceasefire talks with many ethnic groups, as well as our own unplanned but positive meeting with the Burma Army ceasefire delegation in 2012.

At the same time, attacks and military buildup continue in most ethnic areas, while in Kachin and Shan states the Burma Army continues an all-out assault on the people. In other areas there is ongoing laying of landmines, attacks on civilians, forced labor, destruction of civilian property and troop resupply.

The Free Burma Rangers formed in 1997 and are comprised of people from different ethnic groups within Burma providing direct relief to communities most affected by the results of the government’s oppression. These teams are trained to provide medical care and counseling, while documenting and reporting human rights violations. Since its formation, more than 800 missions have been conducted to assist over one million people. Together with other organisations working toward a free and peaceful Burma, 71 Free Burma Ranger relief teams bring help to people facing oppression.

All images from Free Burma Rangers reports. 

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