Every winter, FLC holds a medical training school for village leaders from the most remote parts of Myanmar where there are no medical facilities. In each of three consecutive years, students receive six weeks of medical and dental training before graduating.
The third year of training for the 26 students you see pictured above will begin at the end of January. Then graduation will be on March 3, 2012.
At the Barefoot Doctors School, physicians, dentists and other health care professionals from America and Europe train village leaders how to perform diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, and to provide dental care. Trained leaders are then sent back to their villages with medicines and supplies provided through FLC. Over 180 trained Barefoot Doctors have been credited with saving thousands of lives and opening doors for evangelism in otherwise closed regions.
Our Barefoot Doctor students are from nine different ethnic peoples in Myanmar (Naga, Ngochang, Rawang, Lahu, Akha, Mru, Kachin, Lisu, and Chin) and from five different states. They are already employed in many different occupations (Bible translators, pastors, youth ministers, evangelists, Sunday School teachers, music composers, government officials, educators, office workers, and farmers), but their new medical skills will open new doors for sharing Christ with their people.
Pray for their medical and spiritual ministries this year to the desperately sick and disheartened people of Myanmar!
