| Bible Society of Myanmar website has online versions of the Bible in a variety of languages found throughout Burma. Of particular interest may be the "Sgaw Karen – English" Bible version that can be seen as follows:
- Click on “Online Bible” link at the top of this website's homepage
- On the next page, click on Judson - MCL link in "Parallel Bibles"
- On the next page next to the “Matthew” heading, click on arrow in a box showing “Judson” to see a drop-down list of versions
- At the bottom of the list, click on the "Sgaw Karen" version
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http://www.myanmarbible.com/
documents/24.html |
| Cetana Educational Foundation website shows a trilingual English-Burmese-Karen illustrated
dictionary. A nice feature is that it includes the use of a defined
word in a sentence. |
www.cetana.org/Home.html |
| Drum Publication Group website has many Karen language materials including Karen script fonts
for computers and an online English to a Karen dictionary. Clicking on this additional link takes you to their latest Karen-to-English and English-to-Karen dictionaries published by the Drum Publication Group. |
www. drumpublications.org/index.html
http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3227994 |
Free Burma Rangers and Christians Concerned for Burma websites are related Christian organizations that support operations inside Burma
among the Internally Displaced People (IDPs). They can give first
hand accounts of active hotspots.
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www.freeburmarangers.org and www.prayforburma.org |
| Karen Human Rights Group website has lots of current news and updates
as well as good historical and background information. |
www.khrg.org |
| Karen New Year website is good for general information about the Karen as a people group. |
www.karen.org |
| Karen Baptist Theological Seminary website, located near Yangon, Myanmar |
http://www.kbts.info/index.html |
| Mae La Refugee Camp Bible School & College headed by Dr. Simon Htoo |
https://sites.google.com/site/kkbbsc |
| Peace Way Foundation website offers a weekly summary of Burma-related news which can be
received by e-mail, or recent offerings can be viewed on
their website. |
www.burmaissues.org |
| Refugee Council USA website provides a lot of good background
information on the Tham Hin camp and its people compiled by
the International Rescue Committee. In
2006, most of the refugees coming to the U.S. were from this
camp. |
www.refugeecouncilusa.org/ms-
thamhin-ircfctsht.pdf |
| Refugee Council USA link lists all the U.S. refugee agencies state by state so you can find the agencies nearest to you. Refugee Council USA assists with refugee resettlement across the U.S. that is implemented by local non-profit agencies working cooperatively with the U.S. government. |
www.rcusa.org/index.php?page=volag-affiliate-list |
| Refugee Health Information Network website has information about health benefits and treatment for Burma refugees in Burmese |
http://www.rhin.org/search/search_results.asp?
quick_search=&language=15&x=33&y=17 |
| Thailand Burma Border Consortium is the organization
that feeds, clothes and houses all the refugees in the camps along
the Thai/Burma border. They have also gathered data and published
several well respected reports on the situation of IDPs. Their 6 month
reports offer a good summary of the history of the conflict and up
to date analysis of the current situation. |
www.tbbc.org |
| U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants - Healthy Refugee Toolkit Downloads for Karen website has brochures in the Karen language about Communicable Diseases, Domestic Violence, Health Care, Hygiene, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition Related Diseases, Respiratory Diseases, and Women's Health. Versions are available in other languages found in Burma. |
http://refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1848&rid=
2084&subm=178&area=Participate |
| US National Library of Medicine (NIH) website where you can get health information in different languages about "Asian American Health) including versions in Burmese and Karen |
http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov/
Alsouthasian.html |
February 2010 Karen Leader's Newsletter