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Raising funds for education
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Mission Beginnings |
President Pennies Mission. |
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Papa vanished into his hut returning moments later gloriously waving an Old Dirty and Worn plastic bag from which he extracted a document. His daughter Pimphrapa translated his words. This is the deed to my Papa's Land. Our family labored in the rice fields many years to acquire the $750 it took to purchase it. Her Papa was now donating the land to build Pennies Mission. The village people were asking . |
Fearful of the Burma's military killing her papa or forcing him again into slave labor, they escaped to Thailand through the mountains on foot. The events that shaped her life are recanted in her parents stories to her of there arduous journey to Thailand and the life they left behind in Burma. |
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Goals of Mission
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Prisoner Porters |
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A BETTER LIFE THROUGH EDUCATION PROJECT:
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Situation in Burma today
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Woman and Children Targeted |
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Over fifty years of civil war has left Burma one of the poorest countries in the world. The military dictatorship attacks its own people, killing thousands, and leaving millions running, in hiding or forced to escape to other countries. The opposition if caught are imprisoned or killed by the Burma Army. |
The dictators of Burma have divided Burma into three zones, white, brown and black . “White”—those areas under their total control; “Brown”—contested areas; “Black”—areas the resistance has control over; “Black” areas are designated “free-fire” zones and the Burma Army can kill any man, woman or child it finds in these areas. |
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Land Mines |
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Families Flee |
Rape to Terrorize Villagers |
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Forgotten Christian’s |
Extortion |
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 The internationally infamousBurma junta is known to persecute ethnic minorities, wiping out entire villages. Armed military often attack villages of the Karen, Karenni, and Chin people who are mostly Christian's, and systematically rape the women and girls as young as 9 years old. Full story ..> |
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President Pimprapha tells how she escaped war-torn Burma for reasons that are still present today
The Burma Army has used more than 1,700 prisoner porters in their current offensive in northern Karen
Lay Kee village was burned down. Everyone fled the village, and the Burma Army put landmines in and around the village.
