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Children of Burma
My mother is currently here in the US with us, because my sister has just had a baby. She grew up in Burma and speaks Burmese fluently. In 1996 she went back to Burma and founded a local NGO which is called Yinthwe Foundation. This organization has been training pre-school teachers all over Burma for the last 12 years and has set up kindergardens as well. In Burma there is a tendency for villagers to send their kids to large orphanages in hopes that they will get an education. As a result, previously many children in orphanages in Burma were not really orphans. Yinthwe has been working to bring education centers to villages all over Burma so that children can stay with their families. Anyway the point of this whole story is to say that Yinthwe has a network of young childhood education trainers and teachers that have been trained in a more holistic method of raising children. Since Yinthwe Foundation focuses on children from ages 0-5 it has been able to do amazing work within Burma. Since this age-group is not considered to be very important by the military groups. My mother has been able to go to areas of Burma that foreigners are rarely allowed into. To continue to be able to operate under the radar it is an unregistered local NGO and has no website and does nothing to publicise themselves. The only thing my mother has allowed to be posted about them can be found in this article about their store Shwe Yone Kalay that I wrote last year in my blog www.helladelicious.com. We have just heard that a shipment donated to Burma by Save the Children was confiscated. My mother is getting reports daily from various contacts she has. Their office in Yangon was hit and they are currently aiming to relocate their headquarters to Mandalay so that they can focus their operations on helping the children made orphans by Cyclone Nargis and to train people in how to help the children with the emotional trauma that they have experienced, among other things. My mother will be returning to Burma in two weeks. If anyone is interested in directly donating money to the children of Burma, I can tell you that she has a network that will get your money to the children and will stretch your funds to the utmost that they could be used for to benefit the kids. Granted she is my mother so I have a bias, but the work she does is very grassroots. Most of what she does is simply to support the staff of Yinthwe Foundation and encourage them in the decisions they make for their own country. I think I have said this before but Burma means a lot to me because the people of Burma have consistantly given me everything they have, they have taught me generosity, self-lessness, humor in hard times, community, kindness and many more things. They healed me when I was in a deep cycle of depression for 2 years which I couldn't get out of on my own. They have taught me how to love. I just wish to give back to them some of what they have given me.
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Contributor's Note
Below is link to the article I wrote about the Shwe Yone Kalay store: http://www.helladelicious.com/articles/books-for-kids/
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This intel was contributed by HellaD
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