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“Many of these villagers, the school’s students and staff, have been living in a conflict zone their whole lives,” Dick told The Huffington Post after his five-week stint in Karen. “They’re now learning to operate [a school] in this environment, learning how to deal with the logistics and barriers presented by the area’s geography and environment, plus threats such as the Burmese Army. It’s a huge and incredible undertaking.” The Jungle School of Medicine Kawthoolei, also known as JSMK, is an initiative of the Free Burma Rangers, a local, non-profit humanitarian organization established in 1997. Though the FBR had initially set up one-to-two month training programs to train local students as medics to be mobile support teams in conflict zones across Burma, a growing need for health care highlighted a need for a more formal, permanent school that would run year-round and teach about jungle-specific diseases. At Burma’s Jungle School of Medicine, Students are Teachers, Healers

“Many of these villagers, the school’s students and staff, have been living in a conflict zone their whole lives,” Dick told The Huffington Post after his five-week stint in Karen. “They’re now learning to operate [a school] in this environment, learning how to deal with the logistics and barriers presented by the area’s geography and environment, plus threats such as the Burmese Army. It’s a huge and incredible undertaking.”

The Jungle School of Medicine Kawthoolei, also known as JSMK, is an initiative of the Free Burma Rangers, a local, non-profit humanitarian organization established in 1997. Though the FBR had initially set up one-to-two month training programs to train local students as medics to be mobile support teams in conflict zones across Burma, a growing need for health care highlighted a need for a more formal, permanent school that would run year-round and teach about jungle-specific diseases.

At Burma’s Jungle School of Medicine, Students are Teachers, Healers

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