WHERE WE WORK
AREAS OF OPERATION
While FBR's roots are in Burma, we have been invited to offer our humanitarian aid and training to oppressed people groups around the world.
BURMA
Our home.
Over 70 years of civil war, the longest running in the world, have left Burma one of the poorest countries in the world. During this time, successive military dictatorships killed thousands of their own people and displaced millions in resistance areas, while effectively strangling the political process in areas under their complete control.
Work in Burma began with the advent of the organization in 1997, and we have been serving the people there since.
UKRAINE
FBR first went to Ukraine in 2023, following God's call to help those affected by Russia's invasion of the country.
We come alongside the Ukrainian Chaplain Corps, offering spiritual and counseling training as well as providing combat medical training to equip soldiers to save lives.
TAJIKISTAN | AFGHANISTAN
Since 2002, FBR has been involved with the people of Afghanistan. The relationships established there resulted in a beautiful opportunity to serve Afghan refugees in Tajikistan.
FBR provides food assistance, self defense classes, children's programs, and support for women and orphans.
SOUTH SUDAN
In 2014, FBR was invited to go to help displaced people under attack in Sudan, where the people of the Nuba mountains are suffering under relentless attacks by the dictatorship of Sudan.
In Sudan FBR connects with the people spiritually, professionally, emotionally, mentally, and physically, but ethnic FBR members from Burma connect in a special way with a shared worldview borne of common experiences of resilience under oppression.
IRAQ AND SYRIA
FBR was invited to help Kurds and Yizidi’s under attack by ISIS in 2015. We responded by providing frontline medical care and civilian evacuation.
After providing help in Iraq in the fight against ISIS, FBR moved into Northeast Syria to provide similar frontline medical care and civilian evacuations.
We now have a full-time Iraqi-Kurdish team in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) and a full-time team in Northeast Syria. These teams help in the rehabilitation of many the wounded people we rescued during the battle against ISIS and build playgrounds for communities.
With the fall of the Assad regime, the Syria team provides medical care for IDPs forced from their homes by the violence.