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Livelihoods

SURE: Thriving Nurseries

The SURE project has made efforts to develop nurseries in 6 villages. With lockdown and travel restrictions imposed following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Myanmar, it has been impossible to visit the nurseries and monitor their progress.

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CASE2LEARN

CASE2Learn Launch and Orientation

This week, the CASE2Learn project was launched at the Hilton Hotel, Nay Pyi Taw on the 3 September 2019 with orientation for the project following til the 5 September.

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CASE2LEARN

CASE+: RISE Baseline Report Launch

Yesterday, 23 May 2019, ADRA Myanmar along with CASE+ project partner RISE, hosted a meeting at Summit Parkview Hotel in Yangon. The purpose was to launch the presentation of 2 baseline reports completed on Out of School Children and Teaching and Learning.

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News

Staff Retreat 2019

Each year, ADRA Myanmar staff from both the field and support office, join together for a capacity building based staff retreat. This year we went international and travelled to Bangkok, Thailand staying at the Avani Atrium Hotel from 10-14 March.

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News

ADRA International Launches Official Rebrand

During an ADRA network meeting hosted in Jordan over the last few weeks with Country Directors and other ADRA staff in attendance from different offices around the globe, ADRA International launched the official rebrand of ADRA.

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News

Farewell to our Finance & Administration Director

Last week, we said farewell to Herinjanahary Fleur Henrisse (Hery) our Finance & Administration Director. We commemorated the event by holding a farewell luncheon at the Corriander Leaf in Yangon with Head Office staff in attendance.

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Education

Tailor at the Banyantree

It’s a mother who has to tell Naw Paw Wah’s story. The young girl cannot tell it herself because she is deaf and was asked to leave school the same year she began.

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Health

SHARE: Health Clinic Constructed in Htee Klay Village Tract

On 27 February 2018, an opening ceremony was held for a newly constructed health clinic in Htee Klay Village Tract, Kayin State as apart of the SHARE ‘Support for Health Access in Remote Ethnic Areas’ project funded and supported by GBG Fund for Global Development and HELP International.

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Education

SEAQE: ADRA Norway Films Stories of GTHS Graduates

Last week 4-9 February 2018, Gry Haugen, Communications Director from ADRA Norway, and Frank Spangler, Communications Specialist from ADRA Canada (on assignment for ADRA Norway), visited the SEAQE-TVET project in Hpa-an, Kayin State to collect and film stories of graduates from the short course program at GTHS Hpaan (Government Technological Highschool).

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Education

SEAQE: Youth Skills for Development Symposium

On the 19th July 2017, ADRA Myanmar’s SEAQE-TVET project was invited to participate in the first ‘Youth Skills for Development’ symposium in honour of the UN designated ‘World Youth Skills Day’ to raise awareness about the importance of skills development for youth.

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Emergency

SCAIDP III Project Orientation

From June 26-28 2017, project orientation was held in Myitkyina, Kachin State for the start of the third phase in the SCAIDP ‘Supporting Conflict Affected IDPs in Kachin State Project’.

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AEON

AEON: Sar Phyu Su School Opening Ceremony in Taikkyi

On the 29th March 2017 the AEON project, funded and supported by AEON 1% Club Foundation and ADRA Japan, held an opening ceremony for a recently constructed basic education primary school in Chauk Ein Tan Village, Taikkyi Township, Yangon Division.

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News

Nationwide Coordination & Project Review Meeting

ADRA Myanmar hosted a ‘Nationwide Coordination and Project Review Meeting’ for select ADRA Myanmar staff to discuss and update on our current projects and their activities, finance, HR, monitoring plans, filing systems, project assets and exit plans, challenges/opportunities, coordination/positioning, and PR and communications.

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CASE2LEARN

Jin Nyu’s Story: An Opportunity to Learn

Jin Nyu is 10 years old from Hopong Township, Shan State. This year she was able to go to school for the first time. Some of the boys in her village were able to go out of the village to the Monastery for an education, but like all the other girls in her village, she had to stay with her family.

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Health

U Thet Pyin’s Story: Clean Water Changes Chaung Gwa Village

My name is U Thet Pyin and I am 65 years old living with 7 family members in Chaung Gwa village, Pakokku in Myanmar’s Central Dryzone. Our family’s main livelihood is dryland farming though my children are all either studying in town or working as migrant workers in the bigger cities in Myanmar leaving only myself, my wife and my mother in law to do the work.

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Livelihoods

SURE Project Orientation

The SURE ‘Sustainable Rural Economic Development’ project funded and supported by ADRA New Zealand and MFAT, held orientation for project staff from the 16th – 19th January 2017 in Gangaw, Magway Region.

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Education

Textbooks Improve Learning for Htee Poe Wai

Htee Poe Wai (Community Self Supported School) is situated somewhere between Kyar Inn Seik Gyi and Bayar Thone Hsue (Three Pagodas). It is only accessible by boat in the raining season but in dryer season (winter and summer), it’s reachable by motorbike.

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