Each year Frontier Labourers for Christ, the mission sponsoring the Barefoot Doctors School, has to secure about $60,000 worth of medicines for the Barefoot Doctors to use. These medicines are not only for the 25 new students to use when they return to Burma, but we also resupply the other 71 Barefoot Doctors out in the field. We also outfit each of the new students with a typical medical bag of instruments and tools of the trade: a stethoscope, flashlight, blood pressure cuff, suturing kits, bandages, and a variety of other things. Each of them ends up with a large duffel bag to take home with them so they can be supplied for the next year. This year our donations for these things have been down, so we have been seeking new sources of medicine and medical equipment including other mission agencies who specialize in this. Several churches and organizations have already made small donations, but we are hopeful that two other organizations will furnish the bulk of medicines we need by the first week in March. When these medicines arrive at the training center, we spend a day or two dividing them out so that each Barefoot Doctor is adequately supplied. Please be praying for God to supply these resources soon, because this is a very big part of our medical mission work. Without the proper tools and supplies, we simply can't get the job done. Thanks for praying about this. (By the way, we thank Robert Bowling for several pictures on this blog.)
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