Help me Be Who I Want: Education in Myanmar

Our Education Officer in Kayin has written with an update. The project is based at Maw Paw Khoet community center, not too far from the Thai-Myanmar border. The center acts as an educational hub for the surrounding villages, supporting around 400 primary and secondary school children in their education. Ko Zayar Aung writes, “Many of the children’s parents are migrants, working as farming labourers or traders. They get regular income of about $8 per day, not enough to live on every day, so children help their parents after school e.g. in the paddy fields. Yet, the children are attending school regularly.”

We have set up a MyLibrary digital library that works off-grid at the community center. The MyLibrary contains thousands of exciting learning resources for students of all ages. Ko Zayar Aung has set up a reading program at the center and takes the MyLibrary on tour to local schools.  He tells us the most popular resources are the British Council resources for learning English, and the physics, chemistry and mathematics videos from Khan Academy. Younger children love the local language storybooks from Third Story Project (“famous stories with lovely pictures”).

Students in Kayin still face many barriers to learning but your support means they can now access a wealth of educational resources, including the new national curriculum materials for the first time. If you are able to give a gift today, you could help even more children to learn, no matter what challenges lie ahead.