Rural Nursing Program in Myanmar

20/07/2019

From the Naga Hills in Myanmar...ACM trained nurses at work.

20/06/2019

Congratulations to our latest nursing school graduates. The men are from the Naga ethnic group and they have returned home to become the primary health care providers for their rural areas. One of the women is a Bible College teacher in Panseung, Myanmar - a remote area along the border with India. She plans to incorporate of the lessons on maintaining good health into her curriculum. And finally, two young women will continue their training at Eden Centre in Yangon, becoming teachers and therapists to special needs children.

18/02/2019

The Myanmar Red Cross Society provided a day of training for our students - primarily in First Aid.

12/02/2019

Ngwa May Mar is one of our graduates. She works as a public health nurse in Shan state. In this picture she is caring for a 75 year old man who could not stand. Through a combination of herbal and western medicines, along with prayer, her patient improved to the point he could stand and walk.

01/02/2019

Our nursing students and leaders from area children's home came together for aa four day seminar called "Trauma Healing" -. "Bible based trauma healing care for the global church." It was a powerful time of both learning and healing for the participants. http://thi.americanbible.org/

29/01/2019

Eyes opened to possibility! A nursing student learns the basics of doing a suture -- on a banana!

28/01/2019

Our newest class of nursing students got their first practical clinical experience at a village near the school. Some babies were there just for a well baby check up, but two little ones presented with measles. There is an active vaccination campaign in the area, but these babies missed the opportunity. Adults who came complained of pain due to heavy physical labor. A second clinic will be held this week in another location. Special thanks to Dr. Dwain Illman for leading the clinic.

12/01/2019

This young lady teaches at a very small Bible School on the Indian border. There is no cell phone coverage, no internet, and the roads are only paths through the mountains. Still, young people eager to learn more about Jesus come. In the summer she leads youth camps. She is taking the nursing class so she can incorporate this life saving information into a new health and hygiene curriculum she is developing for the school. The children who come to her Bible camp are so poor -- usually having only the clothese they are wearing, and they wear them all week. Even in this difficult setting, she will teach children the importance of personal cleanliness to prevent disease -- even if that means they get up early and wash the one set of clothing they have. Sponsorship of Kaw Seng Taung fot her training is $300.

09/01/2019

We are so happy to welcome these young men and women to our nursing school. They are from the Naga ethnic group, and most live in the hills near Myanmar's border with India.

19/12/2018

This video was made by another organization that works in Africa, but it is a good representtion of what we train health care workers for at the Samaritan School of Nursing for Rural Health. We are sending health care workers to some of the ONE BILLION people who never see a health care worker in their entire life!

Powerful animation on the shortage of health workers, produced by the Global Health Workforce Alliance in partnership with bliinktv, UK. Now with subtitiles ...

16/11/2018

We are gearing up for the next class of nursing students -- we expect the majority of these students will be from Nagaland. Seasonal outbreaks of a deadly flu has reached the point that trained health care workers need to be in the villages.
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A DIVINE APPOINTMENT, AN ANSWERED PRAYER In 2015, ACM sent experienced OB nurse Linda Pettit to Myanmar. Through interviewing scores of people in rural areas, she saw a need for more trained nurses to provide health care. During her visit, she also attended a worship service at Hope Children's Home....