Myanmar / Burma

J596 Special Education Project – Thai/Burma Border

The KWO Special Education Project was established in the 2 northern Karen refugee camps in 2003. Then in 2007 World Education/Consortium handed over to KWO their SE program which had been running concurrently in the 5 southern camps.
KWO implements the Special Education Project in 7 Karen refugee camps. There are currently 578 children with disabilities and their families that are supported by the program. In the 2009-10 project cycle we expect the number of beneficiaries to rise to 629. Including all staff and direct beneficiaries the total number of project participants will be 810 in 2009-10.
The Special Education Project has 4 components:

• Early Intervention with young children with disability (home visits and learning centre) in 7 camps.
• Inclusive Education (up to Standard 2 in mainstream schools, SE centres and home visits) in 7 camps.
• School for students with hearing impairments in 6 camps.
• School for students with visual impairments in 2 camps.
• The major program objective is to promote the basic rights of all children and youth living with disability in Karen refugee camps by supporting and expanding the care and educational services to those children and youth and their families and by strengthening community awareness and acceptance.

Planet Wheeler is the major sponsor of this project.

J202 Phaung Daw Oo Monastic School,Myanmar

A large monastic school in Mandalay that offers genuinely free education to over 7,000 students from the surrounding communities and from isolated areas of the country where there are no schools. The school provides a vibrant curriculum for children from kindergarten through to the final school year. Also operating community health and education programand free clinic to meet ongoing medical needs of the school community.

J339 Pay Pin Kyaung Monastic Education Centre – Myanmar

Pay Pin Ethnic People Development Centre is a local initiative based in a poor area of Mandalay that aims to address some of the discrepancies in the education system. 
This project will seek to raise funds for Pay Pin Kyaung for the education program and to develop income generation activities of their own to ensure longer term sustainability.

J403 Myanmar Community Development Project

This project is in its early stages. This is the statement of intention:
a) To improve the living conditions of orphans in the community
b) To develop a number of micro businesses to provide an additional income for the orphans and to support poor members of the local community.

J428 Shalom Medical Clinic – Myanmar

The perceived issue is a lack of income in a poorly run economic system. The aim is to eradicate poverty in the long term by developing businesses that employ, train, and develop people. Profitable businesses that provide goods and services for long term sustainability.
The aim of project J428 is to develop small community medical and dental clinics and train Nationals to run them on an ongoing basis. This involves steps to:

a) To develop a medical centre for local communities in Yangon.
b) To develop the well being of local men, women and children who do not currently have access to basic medical care.
c) To provide education and training to two health workers.
d) To provide vocational training for further assistance.