The Run

A huge THANK YOU to all who participated in the Edinburgh Run for Relief in Burma in 2007-2009. Over the past three years, over 300 runners and walkers completed 5k around the Meadows raising over £7,600 to support Partners Relief and Development in their relief efforts with internally displaced people in Burma.

What can this money actually do? Well £7,600 can make a big difference! It can keep 25 families of 5 alive for an entire year.

As great as that is, refugees are still running, and there is still more to be done. That’s why we’re running again, on 9th October 2010. Come and join us! Register to be part of 2010 run

Through holistic action, we demonstrate God's love to children and communities made vulnerable by war.

These children and communities live in hide-sites in Burma's war zones, and in refugee camps and migrant communities along the Thai-Burma border.

We provied: emergency relief, sustainable development, care for children of conflict and advocacy.We speak up for the oppressed and vulnerable. We are passionate about telling their story.

You can help Burma's oppressed children and communities today.Find out more about us at www.partnersworld.org.uk

More Information

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  Partners Relief & Development
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  Free Burma Rangers
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  Christian Solidarity Worldwide
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  Burma Campaign UK

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  • Article 1: Orwellian state, with teashops
  • Article 2: Daily struggle to cope
  • Article 3: Burma’s health and schooling
  • Article 4: Capital confusion
  • Article 5: Continuing the fight
  • Article 6: Should tourists go?
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  • Burma: A plight we can no longer ignore
  • Horrified MPs demand huge aid increase
  • Burma: Forgotten and locked in the shadow of the past
  • Leading Article: A regime we should not be doing business with

Burma

Our Story from Partners Relief & Development on Vimeo.

Burma is a country of extraordinary beauty: Its people, the landscape, the culture. And yet, it is disfigured and scarred by one of the cruelest regimes in the world. The people of Burma need your help.

In 1990, National League for Democracy (NLD) opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was elected Prime Minister under UN sanctioned elections. After winning 85% of the popular vote, she was imprisoned by the ruling military junta. The junta also imprisoned approximately 1,600 political reformers, including 38 elected members of parliament. Aung San Suu Kyi and others remain in custody today.

Overwhelmingly, the military defies the will of the people. The illegitimate junta renamed itself the State Peace and Democratic Council (SPDC) in the 1990's. Since 1992, Than Shwe and a core group of top generals have led the SPDC. Find out more at www.partnersworld.org.uk

Where is Burma?