Provide School Supplies To 500 Kids In Myanmar!

Dear PFK Friends,

As many of you are well aware, the Myanmar military has staged a coup and declared a year-long national state of emergency. Please know our Board in Yangon, and the children in our program are all currrently safe and managing as best as possible in this uncertain and disruptive time.

This upheaval in democracy, in addition to the global pandemic, has slowed PFK down...but it has not stopped us in our mission to assist our wonderful children! We are pivoting and working out a new and safe way to fullfill our mission...and soon!

Please know while we are not allowed into the country at this time, we are working with our local network to distribute our gifts of backpacks, school supplies and school uniforms to our 525 children in the Yangon region. All items have been secured through local sources, nothing is being shipped due to the airport closure at this time.

As the country is under martial law in many areas and protests abound, it is not safe for our team to venture too far, or come into central Yangon. We hope in the next few weeks to coordinate our efforts and deliver our gifts to our children in Bago, Hmawbi and Thanlyin.

We remain in contact with our team and will assist in any way possible. Thank you for your continued support, our children need our assistance now, more than ever.

Best,

Retta

Unfortunately, due to the COVID pandemic, the Myanmar border continues to be closed to foreigners, and international flights to the country have been halted. Sadly, we have not been able to make our mission trip this year. We had postponed our March trip to November in the hopes the borders would be open and the pandemic behind us. We now have had to cancel the November trip as our team and our cargo of gifts cannot get to the children.

We are hopeful we can return in 4 months, in March 2021 and resume our efforts to support our children. We are increasing our service from 500 kids to 800 kids, due to a coorporate partnership with a wonderful local charitable organization with similar goals.

We miss our children and friends in Myanmar and are very much looking forward to returning in 2021!

Here are a few wonderful memories of our kids....we can't wait to see them!

Thank you for your continued interest and support of PFK...we hope everyone is staying healthy!