By Celia Russell | Trustee, Tekkatho Foundation
The turmoil in Myanmar following the military coup on 1 Feb has led to around 220,000 people being displaced from their homes. Around 75,000 of these new refugees are children. We have been working with the Norwegian Refugee Council to improve educational opportunities for young people in Rakhine State in western Myanmar. Our MyLibraries are self-contained, portable digital libraries and the Norwegian Refugee Council are taking five ‘on the road’ to villages and refugee camps around the main town of Sittwe.
Project manager May Thet says,
“The MyLibrary project in Rakhine is good because the political situation is a little calmer there. Although the Norwegian Refugee Council cannot operate completely as they wish, right now they can go to the field and show smaller groups how to use the MyLibrary digital library.
At first, the Norwegian Refugee Council were planning to use MyLibrary for schools, but now they are using MyLibrary to give young adults vocational training and distribute Covid-19 prevention resources in the villages and camps. They have made their own educational videos in Rakhine language and Myanmar language and uploaded into MyLibrary. We hope to re-share these locally made resources across other MyLibraries in Myanmar.”
All of us at the Tekkatho Foundation would like to say thank you so much for your continued support in difficult times. www.tekkatho.foundation
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