Education Myanmar Project #47726

Help Us Provide Refugees in Myanmar an Education

by Tekkatho Foundation

Project Report | Feb 17, 2021
Committed to our mission in Myanmar

By Celia Russell | Trustee, Tekkatho Foundation

As you may have seen on the news, on the day that the new parliament of Myanmar was due to assemble for the first time, the elected leadership were detained by the army and a state of emergency was declared.

At the Tekkatho Foundation, we are hugely concerned by the unfolding political events and stand by the efforts of Myanmar teachers in their peaceful protests. We are thankful that our in-country staff are safe. It’s not clear how our project activities will be affected in the immediate future as our focus is on remote communties far from political centres of power and right now schools are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We will continue to pursue our plans to keep our students learning long term wherever they live. We have taken steps to ensure that our funds are protected, and can be used as intended.

As an organisation, our mission remains the same. We are committed to providing access to education to some of the most remote and marginalised young people in Myanmar. And we will continue to do this no matter what political changes occur.

Our projects on GlobalGiving remain live and will be part of the matched funding Little-by-Little campaign from March 8^th to 12th. During the Little-by-Little campaign, all donations up to $50 from unique donors will be matched at 50% by GlobalGiving.

We are particularly grateful for your continued support and partnership at this time.

If you would like more information on the Tekkatho Foundation and the work we do, please visit: www.tekkatho.foundation

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Oct 20, 2020
No internet? No problem!

By Celia Russell | Trustee, Tekkatho Foundation

Teachers at Maina IDP camp with their MyLibrary

Myanmar is rolling out a much-needed new national curriculum which offers refugee children the chance to participate in mainstream education and sit high school exams. But it’s really hard for schools in camps to get hold of the new curriculum materials. Our Head of IT, May Thet Khine Nyein explains why the new curriculum is important and the problems facing kids in camps:

“The new curriculum leads in a direction where children will be able to learn critical skills. It needs teaching aids, songs and extra-curricular resources. But government schools from hard-to-reach locations do not have textbooks or any teaching aids for their students. For children in refugee camps, it is extra difficult to access the new curriculum because of the instability of the regions and the hard-to-reach locations.The new curriculum textbooks are not distributed by the government. Although the government plans to give online training, in many areas it is not possible because of the lack of internet infrastructure. Even training for teachers about the new curriculum cannot be delivered online.”

We are helping children in camps stay learning by packing the new curriculum materials along with lots of supporting teaching aids, games, video lessons and quizzes into MyLibrary, our self-contained portable digital library which works even in places with no internet connection or phone signal. May Thet explains, “We solved the problem by adding eLearning resources which are linked to the national curriculum. The displaced children who've had their education interrupted can have some continuity to their learning, making it easier for them to return to the national education system without having fallen too far behind their peers.”

Covid-19 means that people can no longer move in and out of the refugee camps. But thanks to your support, children inside the camps can access the new curriculum, continue their education and graduate high school and so have the best chance of post-refugee education and employment.

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