Beyond the Camp: A Refugee Family’s Journey From Burma to the Chicago Suburbs

“Help Us Lord Jesus”: A Cry for Help from the Burma Frontlines

“Help us Lord Jesus” was our constant prayer throughout the Moebye battle,” wrote David Eubank, head of Free Burma Rangers, a faith-based aid mission working on the frontlines of Burma’s war for over twenty years.

Beyond the Camp: A Refugee Family’s Journey from Burma to the Chicago Suburbs

At their modest townhouse in the Chicago suburbs, Too Too and her husband Poe Wah look through pictures from over 25 years ago. These are not the kind of images that fill what many think of as a typical family album.  One picture stands out. It shows two men sweeping an outdoor concrete patio. A thatch shelter with a hammock in the background. One is a much younger Poe Wah.  “We were living in the refugee camp, and I was pregnant at that time,” …