Build a Brighter Future for Kayin State, Myanmar

Child’s Dream Foundation provides educational assistance to the schools in Kayin State, Myanmar through the Karen State Education Assistance Group (KSEAG).

KSEAG is a group with members from Karen Teachers Working Group (KTWG), Karen Education Department (KED), and various partner organizations. It aims to ensure that educational assistance is distributed systematically and equally across all Kayin State schools.

Educational opportunities in Myanmar is extremely limited outside the main cities of Yangon and Mandalay, especially in the mountainous state of Kayin State, where there have been constant fights and hostilities between the government and insurgents for over 60 years.

Due to the political, social, and economic instability of the state, many children in Kayin State do not have access to education. Only less than 10% of primary school students are able to enroll in high school and the students who manage to get their high school diploma are even fewer.

Education is challenging not just for the students, but also for the teachers. There is usually just one teacher for each school, and they need to teach different grade levels at the same time, in the same room. They do this with almost no financial support nor adequate school materials.

To address this problem, Child’s Dream supports KSEAG by providing instructor materials for teachers such as chalks, pens, staplers, and papers and learning materials for students such as notebooks, pencils, and erasers.

With $22,000, this campaign will provide supplies for one academic year to 250 primary and secondary schools for 30,000 beneficiaries in the Kayin State. A donation of $88 can support one school. This budget covers the materials for both teachers and students as well as the cost of delivering these materials to the schools. Transportation usually involves a series of boats, motorcycles, buses, and/or even ox-drawn carts, buffaloes, and usually a series of porters to personally carry the materials through the jungle to remote schools.

If you want to know more about this campaign, or if you prefer to donate in-kind, you may contact us at +66 53 201 811.