Meet the Founder

I promise you, after one hour of talking with Dave, you'll be ready to jump in on the front lines of the conflict in Burma. He's engaging, inspiring and humbling - and his passion for life is contagious!

Dave Eubank, a retired US Army Ranger and founder of the Free Burma Rangers, has been running relief missions inside Burma since the 1997. It's a heck of big job considering right now there are more than 1 MILLION internally displaced people (IDP) within the country. Below is the organization's mission statement taken from it's website:

The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement. They bring help, hope and love to people in the war zones of Burma. Ethnic pro-democracy groups send teams to FBR to be trained, supplied and sent into the areas under attack to provide emergency medical care, shelter, food, clothing and human rights documentation. The teams also operate a communication and information network inside Burma that provides real time information from areas under attack.

In addition to relief and reporting, other results of the teams' actions are the development of leadership capacity, civil society and the strengthening of inter-ethnic unity. The teams are to avoid contact with the Burma Army and operate under the protection of the ethnic resistance armies. However, they cannot run away if the people they are helping cannot escape the Burma Army. Men and women of many ethnic groups and religions are part of FBR.


What started out with just Dave and a medic back in 1997 has grown to 50 plus multi-ethnic teams serving more than 1 million people. 

What's equally as inspiring as Dave's love for the people he serves, is his passion for his family. Dave and his wife Karen have three beautiful children - two girls and a boy.

Let me tell you, this family knows how to enjoy life. When they are not busy serving IDPs in conflict zones - all of them do this by the way; they are mountain climbing together, or doing some other extreme sport. Now keep in mind, his kids are 10, 8 and 5!



I'm so inspired by this man who is living life to the fullest, serving people in great need, and bringing his family along on this amazing journey.

Only recently has Dave started agreeing to on camera interviews. I was lucky enough to get one with him last week at his home in Northern Thailand. In this clip he talks about what's going on in Burma and why he's there. For more info on the Free Burma Rangers, please visit their website:

http://www.freeburmarangers.org/

FBR Founder David Eubank Speaks from The Sound of Hope on Vimeo.

Before the interview started, he read me one of his favorite verses - it's from Isaiah - 1:17.

"Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow."

Dave, and his organization are doing just that!