Why Support Students in Myanmar?

It is reported that 26.6 percent of Myanmar’s population currently lives under the poverty line (20.7 percent for urban areas, 28.4 percent for rural areas). The poverty gap ratio was 6.8 percentage points. But in reality the poverty rate is far greater than the figures indicate.

The children of urban/rural poor are constantly forced to drop out of school to support the immediate needs of their families. As a result of their lack of education, opportunities for employment are missed and some are forced to migrate to big cities or to neighboring countries in search of employment. They have to work as unskilled laborers to support their poor families. Myanmar needs urgent support to help underprivileged children from falling into the vicious cycle of poverty that not only affects them, but also to their families and their communities as a whole as well. Helping them to pursue an education will certainly improve their lives and save them from falling prey to human traffickers and the vicious cycle of poverty. 

 
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Message from EDF-Myanamar

We view education as a basic human need, an integral part of the quality of life, a support for moral and social values, and an instrument for economic productivity. Education support or “Pyinyar Darna”, according to Buddhist philosophy, is one of the best ways to help the needy or the so called “have-nots”.

We need continuous support from the “haves” to foster those “have-nots” so they may be self-reliant and gradually escape from the vicious cycle of poverty that currently traps them. To achieve this vision, EDF- Myanmar came into existence this year, in order  to develop the scholarship program continuously and to cover as many groups of these less fortunate children of the have-nots” as possible.
 
U Nyi Nyi, Managing Director, EDF-Myanmar