“Pai is a 45-year-old woman who has lived in a Burmese village all her life,” our medical partner, Burma Border Projects (BBP), tells us. “She lives with her husband and three-year-old granddaughter. She has three children - two daughters and one son, who all have their own families now. She and her husband are agricultural day laborers and work on a farm, planting and harvesting rice.”
Pai has a uterine prolapse, a condition that occurs when the uterus sags or slips from it normal position and into the vagina. “She has been very worried about her condition and is always scared when she is waking that the prolapse will slip,” BBP explains. “She cannot work in her condition and is embarrassed and very worried about having surgery.”
Pai’s journey to seek medical attention includes the first time she traveled away from home and the first time she ever saw a foreigner. $1,500 will fund her treatment, which “will result in Pai being able to return to her home in the jungle,” BBP continues. “She will return to her family and her work.”
“My favorite thing to do is cook noodles and duck, pork of chicken curry and then sell it at local celebrations,” Pai shares. “I hope that in the future, I can cook and sell the food.”