Our objective is to provide humanitarian assistance and protection for the most vulnerable in our society, especially women and children, by generating funds and awareness and by supporting the fight against HIV and AIDS. We also aim to foster tolerance between different ethnic and religious communities, to promote conflict resolutions and peace projects and to provide a voice on behalf of those who have none for themselves.
This short video explains the Pneumonia Project for children under five in Myanmar, initiated by the Princess Inaara Foundation and supported by Nobel laureate and Myanmar’s democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi. Broadcasted on the German TV channel ZDF on the 15th December 2012 as part of the TV Charity Gala “Ein Herz für Kinder”( A Heart for children).
This trip leads us to one of the poorest and least developed countries on Earth: Myanmar – formerly known as Burma. The Princess Inaara Foundation (PIF) has been cooperating with its local partner, the renowned American NGO People Services International (PSI) for two and a half years to achieve an ambitious objective: to fight the greatest health risk to children under five years of age in this country. They mean pneumonia.
Begum Inaara met with Nobel Peace Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (MP), leader of the opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD) and the chairperson of Parliamentary Committee for Rule of Law.
During a talk at the Ministry of Health in the capital, the Begum Aga Khan and Dr. Pe Thet Khin, the Minister of Health, exchanged thoughts regarding the progress the PIF and PSI project has made so far.
This PSI network clinic is located in a small and very poor part of the Township Darbein, some 2 hours away from Rangoon by car.
The small boy from Dr. Myo Myint Aung’s practice lives in this village with his parents, together with some 10 other families.
More than 40 families live here. An important aspect in the fight against pneumonia is educating adults.
This is one of eight warehouses in and around Rangoon. Here all medications for PSI-Myanmar are packaged and labeled with instructions and inscriptions in the language of the country.
Dr. Aye Aye Mu, the general practitioner of the PSI’s networks, has been running this small clinic for many years with great dedication to help residents of North Oakkalapa Township. She has been achieving high curing rate among approximately 25,000 patients she treat every year – 70% of whom are women and children.
This small government run hospital is the only hospital in the area and it serves approximately 250,000 citizens living in the catchment area of Htan Ta Bin Township. What is lacking above all is:
Shwe Dagon Pagoda is the most important sacral building and the religious centre of Myanmar in Yangon, the former capital of the country.
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