We at the Seattle Burma Roundtable would like to personally invite you
to a special event:


From Piglets to Prosthetics: 10 Northwest Aid Groups on the Burma Border

You've heard of speed dating. Now get ready for speedy international
relief. At the event, you’ll share six intense minutes with each of ten
non-profits/NGOs working in Burma and Thailand. Learn about the many
ways these local global groups make a difference in the daily lives of
Burmese refugees and people displaced by war. Chime in. Trade tips.
Make friends. Leave energized.

Tuesday Nov. 9, 6:30-8 pm
Suzzallo Library, UW main campus

Free. Refreshments. All welcome.

The event is also part of an opening reception for a special photo
exhibit at Suzallo Library November 2-24, featuring images from the
Thai-Burma Border by Seattle Times Photographer Tom Reese.
(http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/burma/reese.html)

The featured organizations include:


Clear Path International -- A Bainbridge Island based de-mining and
mine education group group that has a project to make custom-fitted
prosthetic legs for land-mine victims trapped inside Burma.
(http://www.clearpathinternational.org)

Green Empowerment -- A Portland group that has outfitted 13 clinics
serving 40-50,000 internally displaced Burmese with solar power, and
has plans to equip another 11 clinics in 2005.
(http://www.greenempowerment.org/)

Dr. Cynthia's Clinic -- A number of Seattle-based medical professionals
continue to volunteer at this clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand, which is run
by Dr. Cynthia Maung, winner of numerous international awards and
called "the Mother Teresa of the Thai-Burma border."
(http://faculty.washington.edu/kwangett/burma/)

World Aid, Inc. -- A Ballard-based non-profit that has for years
gathered and shipped medical supplies and financial support for
refugees and the internally displaced.

Social Action for Women (SAW) -- This Thailand-based group now has a
representative in the Seattle area. Mo Mo Aye has provided pre-natal
and reproductive health training to the thousands of Burmese migrant
women who work in Thai factories in Mae Sot for $1.25 per day.
(http://www.myfriend.org/saw/)

Free Burma Rangers -- Based in both Gig Harbor and on the Burma/Thai
border, this group carries relief supplies deep inside Eastern Burma,
as well as training and accompanying medics, dentists and doctors into
high-risk areas where internally displaced people struggle to survive.
(http://www.freeburmarangers.org/)

Save the Children USA -- With strong support from the Puget Sound
community, Save supports micro-credit lending, scholarship
opportunities for girls from disadvantaged families and child nutrition
programs. (http://www.savethechildren.org/)

World Vision -- The Federal Way based NGO works both on the Thai-Burma
border (providing AIDS education and fighting child sex trafficking)
and inside Burma (doing micro-credit lending).
(http://www.wvi.org/wvi/home.htm)

Seattle Burma Roundtable -- A local grass-roots group working on public
education that has also raised more than $10,000 to fund basic
education for children of internally displaced communities inside
Burma. (http://students.washington.edu/burma/)

Project Piglet - This project provides breeding piglets and pig feed to
refugee and internally displaced families so they can develop a
self-sustaining source of food and income.

We look forward to seeing you there!