- Shan Children in Greeting
- Karen Villagers in Thailand waiting to receive their acupuncture treatment
- Rachelle providing treatment to an elderly woman
- Anna Sombrio, who took a semester off from college to join me on this year’s Medical Relief trip, working several jobs to earn her own way, proved herself to be a cheerful and tireless assistant and friend
- Rachelle’s assistant and Karen trainee treating patients
- Ethnic Shan children playing in a village on the Burma border
- Rachelle supervises her trainee, a Karen Community Health Worker as he practices acupuncture for the first time
- Several thousand refugees also live in a section of Loi Tai Leng. Rachelle provides treatment to memebers of this population as well
- Soldiers receiving acupuncture treatments
- Medics’ Barracks where Rachelle stayed while treating the Shan State Army soldiers in Burma
- Shaune Vincent, of Partners Relief, developed and directs the Community Health Worker training program in Loi Tai Leng
- These medics/soldiers translated for Rachelle during her clinics
- Dave, former US Special Forces member and founder of the Free Burma Rangers welcomes Rachelle who was invited to provide treatments for the FBR team
- Dave receives his first treatment in this makeshift clinic
- Small workshop where prosthetic limbs are manufactured for Burmese refugees. Land mines planted by the Burma Army have caused a great number of amputees among the Ethnic Minority population