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Dr. Cynthia, as she is affectionately called, embodies the principle of hope in this sad region. She also had to flee from her country in the year 1989. Being a doctor, she decided to help her sick and injured compatriots. She started her selfless efforts after she left her country and has kept up her work till today.
The simple hut in which she started the medical service for her people has become a small hospital for refugees
with the help of volunteers and donations from all over the world.
Dr. Cynthia has hardly any private life. Whenever it is possible, she tries to spend some time with her husband and her two children. But there's very little time for her family.
Whenever she is not with a patient, she's teaching at the medical school attached to the hospital or she's visiting her school or the orphanage or she's helping to plan the next activities for the backpacker doctors.
She has also started founding branches of her clinic inside Burma. But only one of the six buildings is still intact. The others have been burned down several times and so she had to give up this plan.
For her self-less work Dr Cynthia was awarded several human rights prizes, among them the well-known Magsaysay prize for her efforts for humanity. In South East Asia this prize is commonly identified with the Nobel Peace Prize. Whenever her work permits a break, Dr Cynthia attends international congresses where she supports the refugees and tries to bring about improvements.
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