The founder
It began with a doctor
PRASM was founded by a physician whose visits to Kayan refugee families began this work in the hills of Mae Hong Son, and who built the first records that let an undocumented child begin to prove they exist.
I'm a doctor. The first thing I could give this family wasn't money. It was a record. For a child with no papers, a medical history became the first proof that he exists.
On a visit to the village, our founder — Dr. Kwon Yonghyun (권용현), a Korean physician who now lives in Thailand and teaches and counsels online — met a family that had crossed from Myanmar only the day before, their home seized by the army. One of their boys was sick, and they had no way to afford a hospital that charges refugees as if they were tourists.
He did two things. He paid for the care and the journey to reach it. And he did what doctors are trained to do: he built a record, organizing the boy's history the way one doctor hands a patient to the next.
That record did something unexpected. For a child with no papers, it became a first small proof of existence: a thread of identity where there had been none. PRASM is the idea that this can be done again, and properly, for many.
How a doctor sees this
Care, then proof, then dignity
The same instinct that treats a patient also documents them. For people with no papers, that record is the start of being seen.
Care comes first
The work began by paying for a sick child's care and the journey to reach it. Health is the ground everything else stands on.
A record is proof
Doctors are trained to build a history and hand a patient safely to the next. For a child with no papers, that record becomes a first proof of existence.
Held in trust
Identity is consented, protected, and never traded. Technology helps carry the work, but a person always decides.
Stand with a doctor's promise
Your gift covers care, keeps children learning, and helps build the records that let a person be seen.