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Update: October 2023
Since the 2021 coup Build a School in Burma has searched for ways to continue its mission to bring education to underserved Myanmar children. Building schools in areas under military control is logistically difficult given violence and disruption—and ethically questionable. During 2021 we were able to complete schools already under construction. Starting in 2022 BSB […]
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Chedi Koh Migrant Learning Center
Myanmar migrant children studying at this church sponsored school were attending classes in the sanctuary, outside, in a dining room and in dormitories. BSB partnered with the church to construct a 4 classroom building now vibrant with the sounds of 163 young scholars. The church pastor has also been instrumental in helping BSB and sister […]
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Htwee War Pa Law middle school
Deep in the wilds of Karen State, Myanmar lies Htee Wah Pa Law village. To replace a an unattended Myanmar government school, BSB partnered with the Karen Education and Culture Department (KECD) to construct a new school for 250 kindergarten through grade 7 school. KECD provides the curriculum and pays the teachers. Wooden buildings are […]
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New Wave Learning Center
This outstanding school is led by a dynamic principal and has one repeated awards as the best of its kind. Because of his cooperative relationship with the Thai authorities, New Wave students are receiving standard childhood inoculations from the Thai Ministry of Health. A Thai language program for students helps them navigate their new home. […]
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U Moo Tah High School
Nestled in the rugged limestone mountains of Karen State U Moo Tah School counted 208 students, KG to 12th grade, but had no school bulldog. 189 children live In dormitories, because their parents have sent them to this safe place from their homes in conflict zones. School was held in a rickety assembly hall without […]
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Nya Lay Ah Hta middle school
This kindergarten to seventh grade school in the cane fields north of Mae Sot lies just a stone’s throw from the Myanmar border. Many of the 120 students travel here seasonally from inside that country to study away from the disruptions of ongoing civil war. With partner NGO Sao Bien, BSB replaced temporary half walled […]
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Htee Tay Kee Middle School
Working with the village school committee under the leadership of a forceful principal, BSB completed Htee Thay Kee school in mid 2023. Our Austrian partner NGO Sao Bien provided key funding. Local villagers contributed lumber and some labor. BSB installed solar electricity that lights the school and dormitory at night. The school lies in a […]
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Dhamma Loka school
Build a School in Burma has had a long and productive relationship with Phaung Daw Oo Monastic School in Mandalay. In 2023 we partnered with PDO and Naung Taung Monastic School to construct a purpose built structure to house their satellite school Dhamma Loka in Southern Shan State. So far this area has remained relatively […]
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Kaw Moo Rah High School
Kah Moo Rah High School is part of a large complex providing education from kindergarten though the first two years of college. Located north of Myawaddy town in Karen State, the school supports many boarding students from conflict zones. Because of its close proximity to Thailand, the coup makers have left this area in peace. […]
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Par Khet School
A new 30’ by 60’ building was constructed for the Par Khet village school, located in Southern Shan State. The new building provides classroom space to allow the school to add middle-school grades to what was only a primary school. This makes it easier for students to continue their education while continuing to live with […]
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Taung Salei Myaung School
BSB constructed a new building with 6 classrooms to help The Taung Salei Myaung school provide safe learning space for its 452 students. Before this project, the school had only one 30′ by 120’ building in good condition, one partially finished 30’ by 60’ building, and an old wooden building in poor condition. A new […]
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Update: June 2022
Public schools in Myanmar generally have not operated since the military coup in February 2021. Normal operation of BSB became impossible due to widespread violence, the absence of functioning financial systems, restrictions on travel, the Covid-10 pandemic, and other unsafe conditions. As a result, situations where BSB can help with new school buildings are now […]
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National Peace Corps Association features story about BSB
Bob Cornwell’s article about Build A School in Burma was featured on the National Peace Corps Association’s website. One School at a Time: How to Build 40 Schools in Myanmar for Less than a Million Dollars The cost of a three-room school on donated land is between US $25,000 – $30,000 today.
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Tet Tet Gu Preschool
The preschool for Tet Tet Gu village was held in a roughly-built structure with dirt floors and tarps as walls, not really suitable for a preschool. Nevertheless, 60 children from the age of 3 to 5 years attend. Several years ago construction on a new building was started but never completed. The school committee asked […]
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Tet Tet Gu High School
Students from Tet Tet Gu village and eight neighboring villages currently attend this middle school. Next year high school classes will be added, so students will be able to continue their education while living with their families. BSB helped construct a new building to make this possible. There are over 2,300 residents, in more than […]
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Sham Phan Primary School
This primary school, grades kindergarten through 4, is vital for the children of this village, as the village is remote, the rugged roads are impassable during rains, and the nearby river is dangerous. Two small buildings had been made by the villagers own efforts, but were in very bad condition before BSB offered to help. […]
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Nat Taing School High School
Nat Taing is a village in central Myanmar, about 2.5 hours drive west of Mandalay. The population of Nat Taing and nearby villages is about 1,500. The inhabitants are mostly poor farmers and day laborers. Nat Taing Village School is a monastic school. Many families who cannot afford to pay government school fees and buy […]
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Zaw Ti Kar Yar Ma School
Zaw Ti Kar Yar Ma school is a monastic school in a remote village in Sagaing Division, an arduous four hour drive from Mandalay. The existing school was built by the villagers and all the buildings of temporary materials like bamboo and thatch. This is a very poor region of Myanmar and opportunities for education […]
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San Chi West School
San Chi West is a 2 hour drive from Dawei, south of Yangon, Myanmar. It sits alongside the Tavoy River. The school has 72 students, from kindergarten through grade 7. A bamboo and thatch building was constructed through the villagers’ own efforts, but because of storm damage it can no longer be used. The school […]
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Pyin Nyar Parami Shwe Kyaung School
Pyin Nyar Parami Shwe Kyaung school is in village is about 1 ½ hours drive southwest of Mandalay. A monastic school spanning kindergarden through grade 10 (and therefore called a high school), PNPSK enjoys strong support from the villagers, who mostly farm sesame, goundnuts (peanuts) and beans. A former student of BSB’s executive director, Robert […]
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Par Khet School
Parkhet village clings to the side of a remote mountain about 3 hours drive by four wheel drive track east of Hopone, Southern Shan State. The villagers are Pa-o and gather forest products and farm the steep sided mountains. The village and the school are supplied with gravity fed piped water. Fifty seven students attend […]
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Kon Lan School
Kon Lan is a small village a little over an hour’s drive from Hopone, Southern Shan State. The people are Pa-O and mostly farmers. The village is not near any other villages, so the village school is the only place for the children to be educated. Kon Lan School is a a government primary (kindergarten […]
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Kaw Bat Chan School
Kaw Bat Chan is in Bago Region, close to Kayin State. It is a five hour drive north from Yangon. The Kaw Bat Chan school currently serves 60 primary school students and 27 preschool students. Students from three smaller neighboring villages attend this school. The existing school buildings were termite damaged and unsafe. There were […]
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Karin Shin Da B
Karin Shin Da B village is near the Tavoy river, about 1 ½ hours drive from Dawei, Myanmar. The primary school, now serving 51 students, was overcrowded and is in very poor condition. For students to continue beyond grade 4, the nearest middle school is several miles away and impractical for students to attend, particularly […]
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Wone Pyat Preshool
Wone Pyat village is a Shan and Lisu village in Eastern Shan State. Three years ago the villagers, with their own labor and donations, constructed a bamboo and thatch building for a preschool. The building is too small, and does not provide adequate shelter during rain and wind storms. Father Francis brought the need to […]
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Thin Ka Zar
Thin Ka Zar monastic school was badly in need of a new building for its over 150 students, as the only school building was just 30 by 40 feet. The school began operating as a primary school in 2008. By 2011 there were 94 students with 5 teachers, and by 2018 that had grown to […]
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Thanatpin High School
A new two story building, the largest ever built by BSB, replaced two dangerous and dilapidated structures at this large high school outside Bago. BSB, founded by former US Peace Corps volunteers Robert Cornwell and Andrew Lederer, collaborated with current PCV Abby Hester a current volunteer and teacher at the school. The Hester family from […]
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Taw Bot Su
The Taw Bot Su village school was badly in need of a new school building to conduct classes for the 130 students from KG through grade 7. Community members donated funds to purchase land for a new building, and with their own funds and labor built bamboo and thatch structures for classrooms. Bamboo buildings are […]
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Khampat ECCD
Khampat village is composed of mostly ethnic Chin farmers. The village had no preschool. BSB teamed with Pastor T. E. Paw and the Chin Baptist Association to build a preschool that can also be used for night time activities for village youth. Preschool Primary Primary and Middle School Primary through High School
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Hto Do Lay Kho school
Hto Do Lay Kho school serves a marginalized population located in a remote area of Kayah State not far from the Thai border. There are no roads to the village, so all school materials had to be sourced locally or brought to the site by motorcycle. The new school replaces an unlit, rotting wooden structure […]
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Ho Lain Post-Primary School
Build a School in Burma constructed a new building to expand this primary school to a post-primary school (adding grades 5 – 7) in Ho Lain village, about 2 ½ hours drive from Lashio in Northern Shan State. The villagers are mostly Shan Buddhists. The school will serve Ho Lain and two other nearby villages. […]
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Gwa Sone School
Gwa Sone is a rare situation in Rakhine state. Both Rohingya and Rakhine children attend the same school. To date, both communities have lived peacefully on the same island, with a population of more than 1800 individuals. They share the same land, water, resources and culture. BSB seeks to encourage inter-ethnic cooperation to support educating […]
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Nee Ku Dee Primary School
Build a School in Burma constructed a new building for a primary school in Nee Ku Dee village in Kachin State in northern Myanmar. The building replaces a rough, temporary bamboo and thatch structure with a safe, good quality learning environment, and provides space to add grades 3 and 4 for the children of this […]
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Pwe Hnyet San Middle School
Build a School in Burma helped this village build its first primary school in 2016. Children previously had to walk to other villages to attend school. Silicon Valley tech start-up Boomerang donated the funds for Pwe Hnyet San Primary School. In 2018 villagers erected a temporary wood and thatch building to begin providing middle-school classes […]
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Moe Kyo Pyit Primary School
A new building for this primary school has recently been completed (August 2019). Moe Kyo Pyit village is located in the Ayeyarwaddy River Delta region, about 5 hours drive from Yangon. There was no school in the village until 2014 when the government finally recognized the villagers efforts in building their own self-supporting school and […]
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Gam Ngai High School
Gam Ngai is a remote village near the Indian border in Chin State, Myanmar, needed renovations to an existing building, and a new building to add high school grades.
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Schools by Year Built
2023Dhamma Loka school Htee Tay Kee Middle School New Wave Learning Center Nya Lay Ah Hta middle school U Moo Tah High School 2022Chedi Koh Migrant Learning Center Htwee War Pa Law middle school Kaw Moo Rah High School 2021Par Khet School Taung Salei Myaung School 2020Gam Ngai High School Karin Shin Da B Kaw […]
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Kyaung Baing School in Mon State
Kyaung Baing School in in the town of Thanbyuzayat, once the terminus of the Burma end of the notorious World War Two Death Railway. The line was abandoned after the war, but the town is bustling today. BSB representatives were introduced to Kyaung Baing by a dynamic local Myanmar partner organization, “Precious Stones.” 312 students […]
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Pane Morn primary school
BSB built a new primary school in Pane Morn village in Eastern Shan State, 600 km east of Mandalay, and about four hours over tortuous roads from Keng Tung. Most of the villagers are ethnic Lahu. The nearest primary schools were more than 4 miles away, too difficult and dangerous for the young children to […]
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Khar Shi primary school
Khar Shi is a newly created community just north of Lashio, not far from China. The residents are refugees from conflict near their native villages, and they have come together to live in harmony, despite speaking three different languages. BSB was introduced to Khar Shi village by a local NGO, Meikswe Myanmar, which is helping […]
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