ore than 20,000 members of the KAYAW TRIBE
inhabit 30 villages in eastern Myanmar near the border with Thailand. The are a shy people who live in remote forests on steep mountain slopes that visitors struggle to reach. Other ethnic groups have called them "Bre" or "Brek" for generations, but the Kayaw consider those terms pejorative and insist on being called by their proper name, Kayaw.
Kayaw woman traditionally washed their babies every morning and evening for the first year after birth and then stopped, as they considered it was enough cleansing for a lifetime! Intrepid missionaries first shared the Gospel with the Kayaw people in the 1860s, and today 90 percent of them are professing Christians, with most being members of Baptist or Catholic churches.
Pray God would visit the Kayaw people and revive them again.