Preacher Piao Yiquan, a Chinese preacher who graduated from North East Theological College in 2012, came to Yunnan after serving in a church in Changchun for one year.
One day one of his schoolmates who lives near the Burmese refugee camps called him, asking him to pray or do something for them.
There're in excess of twenty public refugee camps at the China-Burma border while the locals say it reaches above 30, added the non-public ones.
On October, 2015, Piao entered into the refugee camps the first time and his continuous care began since then. He has been to three camps which have people in different numbers.
Until now, he and some Christians bring relief supplies including clothes, shoes and food to them for four times.
He tells CCD that most of the refugees at the border are Jingpo ethnic group, one of more than 130 minorities in Burma, over 90% of whom are Christians.
He shares that the refugees usually build churches with better conditions before having their own houses based on their Christian underground.
However, they live a difficult life. Some even cannot afford meat for five years due to poverty and it takes them one or two hours' motor drive to buy it. A lot of children wear only slippers even in winter.
Last December, Piao's team gave 125 kilos of pork to the poor people. They also launched a fundraising program for this and donated 317 new sneakers to each child.
This February, the preacher and his co-workers visited a camp named "maizayang" where about ten thousand of people live,involving over a thousand school children.
He also visited an orphanage and four refugee schools, brining supplies like meat, oil, fruits and vegetables to them. The children there only had rice and soup where there was nearly nothing in it for supper. He looked at them with pain in his heart.
When asked any plan to serve them, Piao says he will serve at his best, but with no long-term plan. He and his partners will try to help them on hearing any need from the camps.
