For information on Dr. Cynthia's clinic, please visit the Mae Tao Clinic home page at:

www.maetaoclinic.org

Free Burma resources

• Free Burma Coalition Homepage, an umbrella group of organizations around the world working for freedom and democracy in Burma.
• Free Burma Home , a web site devoted to disseminating information on Burma.
• FreeBurma.org, a comprehensive set of links to Free Burma resources
• Open Society Institute's Burma Project, dedicated to increasing international awareness of conditions in Burma and to helping the c ountry make the transition from a closed to an open society.
• A Land of War, a Journey of the Heart, an article by Seattle Times writer Paula Bock about Dr. Cynthia and two little girls from Chogali village. Photographs by Tom Reese and website production by Betsy Aoki of the Seattle Times.
• The U.S. Committe for Refugees Burma Report, an excellent overview of the current health and political situation on the Thai-Burma border.

• Brackett Foundation   The Brackett Foundation funds education for refugees. Focusing on refugees from Burma, their projects cover the full range of education, from nursery school children to college students.
• Clearpath International  Provide prostheses to hundreds of Burmese landmine amputees, and works to improve artificial limb production and measurement technology.
• Planetcare/Burmese Refugee Care Project  Founded by Ben Brown, MD and based in Sebastopol, California, the BRCP was started to help the displaced people of Burma. Its primary focus is to support the work being done by Dr. Cynthia .
• Burmese Youth Project  A nontraditional aid organization that focuses on opportunity, art, and clean water
  
• Global Health Access Project  Provides clinical services and medical resources for programs on the Thai-Burma border, including the Backpack Health Worker Project.
• WEAVE  A non-governmental organization in Northern Thailand that supports the independence and self-sufficiency of Karen hill tribe women. In addition to supporting maternal child health projects, WEAVE sells Karen handicrafts as part of an income generation project for refugee women.
• The Women's Commission Works to improve the lives and defend the rights of refugee
   and internally displaced women, children and adolescents