Burma Humanitarian Mission is an all-volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to address the humanitarian and healthcare crisis in Burma. We achieve our aims through supporting backpack medics who administer village healthcare services in Karen State and by documenting our missions using photography and video to share the voice of the peoples of Burma with the world.

Since 1999, Burma Humanitarian Mission has trained backpack medics and provided them with basic medicines and supplies. The backpack medics hike into eastern Burma to provide immediate trauma care and long-term health care to Karen and other ethnic groups who have suffered the Burmese junta's repression. The junta routinely shoot men and boys, rape women and girls and burn Karen villages. Thousands of Karen have fled and hide in the jungles or relocated to camps in Thailand. While landmine or gunshot wounds may be the most traumatic, the enduring threat is malnutrition and disease -- malaria, worms, diarrhea, TB and other preventable illnesses. One in 5 Karen children die before the age of 5; Karen mothers have a maternal mortality rate 10 times that of neighboring Thai mothers. Burma Humanitarian Mission is dedicated to mitigating these risks.