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Read our 2024 Annual Report

Are you curious about how things are going in Myanmar at the moment and how our projects are doing? Then read our Annual Report 2024. The circumstances in the country are far from rosy due to the military coup in February, the junta's reign of terror and the resulting popular uprising. But there is also hope and all kinds of bright spots. In our report we tell how our people on the ground are putting their shoulders to the wheel for education, guidance and care for the many underprivileged children and young people at the PDO High School in Mandalay. That is heart-warming to read.

Sponsoring by De Zutphense HAND

Last year we submitted a sponsorship request to the De Zutphense HAND foundation in Zutphen for the first time. We were then allocated an amount of €2,500, to be spent on the daily necessities for the children in our residential groups The Golden House and The Hostel. We recently submitted a new request and this time we were allocated €3,500 for the same purpose, so a thousand euros more. The foundation said it was very pleased with our extensive report. We are of course very grateful for that. The money will be put to good use again. Thanks to the board of De Zutphense HAND for the trust they have placed in us.

The threat is getting closer

The staff members of The Golden House and The Hostel try to give the children in our residential groups an existence as carefree as possible. That is not easy, because Myanmar is literally and figuratively on fire. Since the military coup in February 2021, the military junta has been waging a true reign of terror. A huge popular uprising has arisen against this and young people have taken up wapons together with the ethnic rebel armies. The armed struggle is increasingly moving towards the big cities, such as Mandalay, where the school of our projects is located.

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Typhoon causes many deaths

In Myanmar, around 250 people have died as a result of Typhoon Yagi. In early September, Yagi swept across Myanmar, after the storm had also hit Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, among other countries. More than 600 people have died across the region. According to state media, 77 people are still missing. More than 260,000 hectares of rice fields and other crops have been destroyed by the floods. The United Nations warns that 630,000 people in Myanmar are in urgent need of aid.

Is it Burma or Myanmar?

Burma, Birma, Myanmar. Those are the three names that you often see mixed up. First of all, we can be brief about the difference between Burma and Birma. Birma is Dutch for Burma. But should you say Burma or Myanmar? That mainly depends on your own preference and/or your nationality. Because in some countries Burma/Birma is consistently used in the media, in other countries you only hear Myanmar. And that in turn is determined by whether or not the name Myanmar is recognized by the government of that country.

China wants an end to violence

China calls on all warring parties in the Myanmar conflict to immediately stop fighting. Most of the fighting takes place in the border area with China. That country asks the government of Myanmar to prevent further victims by working together to create a stable situation. From an economic point of view, it is also important for China that the violence in Myanmar stops.

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Read our 2024 Annual Report

Sponsoring by De Zutphense HAND

The threat is getting closer

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Typhoon causes many deaths

Is it Burma or Myanmar?

China wants an end to violence

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