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Myin Ka Kwin Middle/High School
Myin Ka Kwin is spread across a 4.6 square mile island in the Ayerawaddy Delta surrounded by the stunning Pin Lel Ka Lay River and its natural mangrove forest. This poor Karen village, only accessible by boat, derives its main source of income from fishing, thanks to its proximity to the delta, the river and […]
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Leik Poke Gone
Leik Poke Gone is both a multi-village tract and a village located in the Ayerwaddy Delta region. Like so much of this part of Myanmar, the people and their activities are subject to the variabilities of season and weather. The weather ranges from hot and dry to hot and humid and then somewhat cool. The […]
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Htee Ta Maung Preschool
This remote mountain village was in desperate need of a preschool (early childhood development center or ECCD). The parents work from dawn to dusk on farms far from the village and needed a safe place for their children to be during the day. The residents had built an ECCD in 2014 out of bamboo and […]
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Targwa K-8 School
Targwa Monastic School is BSB’s 15th school. Located in Shan Kwin, an ethnic Bamar (Burmese) village, it lies about three hours’ drive west of Pyay over rough roads. Construction was completed and the school opened with a big celebration in July 2016. BSB Founder Bob Cornwell was lucky enough to be in Burma and participate in the […]
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Pwe Hnyet San Primary School
Pwe Hnyet San village, located more than four hours by car from Yangon, has 100+ children but had no school. The villagers, who are primarily ethnic Karen, rely on rice and betel nut cultivation along with irregular domestic work in a nearby town for their subsistence. The children who attended school had to walk some […]
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Pan Kyauk Preschool & Kindergarten
Opened in July 2016, Pan Kyauk Preschool was born out of tragedy. Since the village lacked a preschool, during the rainy season when roads to neighboring village schools were impassable, and parents had to work in the fields, young children were left in care of older, but still young, siblings. One day a child died […]
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Lwae Ngu Primary School
This village, about a four-hour drive toward the Chinese border from Lashio, Northern Shan State, is home to an ethnically diverse population, many of whom arrived due to conflict-related internal displacement. When the school needs were brought to the attention of BSB by NGO Meikswe Myanmar, one building of a needed two-building primary school replacement […]
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Kyar Ni Kan Middle School
The area of Kyar Ni Kan in rural Myanmar has more than 200 school-age children, but had only one school. The monastery-run primary school served 70 students from kindergarten through grade 4 with no schooling beyond the primary level. The head monk’s dedication to educating these children is inspiring– he has operated the school, for […]
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Colorful Flowers Preschool
Working with Yangon-based NGO Heart of Youth and a group of Buddhist nuns from a local convent, BSB helped to create a preschool in this rapidly growing exurb of East Dagon. Workers from around Myanmar are flocking to the area to labor in a nearby industrial park. Although there are government and monastery schools in the […]
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San Chaung Lay Secondary School
San Chaung Lay is located in the Ayerwaddy Region, about 30 miles south of Pathein, near the Pathein River. Its population of 386 comprises mostly ethnic Karen with some Burmese. Both Christianity and Buddhism are practiced. Until recently, there was only a primary school to serve the children there and those from small surrounding villages. Without a […]
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Pon Khet Primary School
Pon Khet is an ethnic Lahu village remotely located in Mong Ping Township, Eastern Shan State, bordering Thailand. The people are extremely poor farmers, their socioeconomic situation made worse by the government’s failure to provide basic healthcare and education. Young people without education are migrating to Thailand for employment, but the opportunities there are minimal. […]
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Poe Dauk Primary School
Poe Dauk is a small, poor village on the Magelar Dish coast of Burma. West of the Irrawaddy River Delta, facing the Bay of Bengal, the remote Magelar Dish has few roads and is not connected to the national electricity grid. The area can only be reached by boat from the Bay of Bengal, or […]
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Phara Gyi Primary School
Phara Gyi is a riverside village of mostly Rakhine people in a remote area of Arakan State near the Chin State border. To get there from Yangon, fly to Sittwe, then take a five-hour boat trip upriver. The next day, a three-hour combination boat and car trip will get you there. This village of bamboo and […]
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Nan Auw Primary School
Nan Auw was Build a School in Burma’s first school, built in collaboration with the Rural Development Society of Kalaw, in Southern Shan State. It is located about 1.5 hours east of Kalaw by four wheel drive vehicle over very rough roads. The people are primarily from the Danu ethnic group, some children come from a […]
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Nam Maphwe Myitung Kone Preschool
Nam Maphwe Myitung comprises two villages, one of Kachin people and primarily Roman Catholic, the other ethnic Shan, and primarily Buddhist. The villages worked together with the Banmaw Local Development Organization (BLDO) and BSB to build an Early Childhood Development Center (preschool) that was successfully completed in 2013 and graduated its first class in 2014. It […]
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Mann Khaung Primary School
Since 2003, Mann Khaung has tried to provide a proper primary school for their children and those of a nearby Shan village. Due to government budget limitations, they were only able to build a small bamboo structure inadequate to the number of students it needed to serve. Along with a broken water supply system and deteriorating sanitary […]
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Mahasala Middle School
The six villages within the Chaung Ma Gyi village tract are poor. Logging and fishing along with some rice paddy cultivation are the primary sources of income for these small landholders living 45 minutes by boat from Mandalay. Poverty is rife and migration of young people and heads of households out of the communities is […]
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Lay En Su Preschool
Lay En Su (the name means four houses—but there are now more than 1000 in the village!) is a predominantly Karen community with a significant Bamar minority in Bago Division, 60 miles north of Yangon. Partner Lay En Su Mingalar Association completed this bright blue preschool in August 2014. Thirty-three students and their four teachers immediately […]
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Ko Lao Mogen Primary School
Ko Lao is a small Thai island set in the Andaman Sea with a sweeping view of the extreme southern tip of Myanmar: Kawthung and Victoria Point. The islanders are Mogen, so-called “sea-gypsies”. The Mogen were historically sea-borne nomads, migrating seasonally up and down the Andaman coast in search of fish and pearls. In recent […]
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Inn Ta Lu Primary School
Working with the Karen Women’s Empowerment Group (KWEG), BSB helped the people of Inn Ta Lu village complete their half-built school in 2012. Inn Ta Lu’s motivated, well-organized school committee insured strong parent participation during construction. In addition to finishing the school, providing a water supply and building sanitary toilets, BSB and KWEG helped build […]
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Hway Port Primary School
Hway Port’s school needs came to the attention of Northern Shan State Union Baptist Association (NSSUBA) through the father of one of the organization’s leader, who hunted in the area. Before NSSUBA began to help, none of the village children were receiving an education of any kind. In collaboration with partner NSSUBA, BSB replaced a bamboo […]
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The Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Our Work
We are deeply troubled by the exodus of Rohingya people to Bangladesh from Myanmar. For several years, Build a School in Burma has tried to find a way to help promote the education of Rohingya children. We have met with UN agencies, local and international NGOs as well as leaders in the Rohingya community. Due […]
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How to build a school blog
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Boomerang partners with Bay Area non profit Build A School in Burma
BUILD A SCHOOL IN BURMA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 10, 2015 Contact (BSB): JOYCE MCKINNEY 415-513-3109 Contact (BOOMERANG): AYE MOAH (530) 378-4257 Boomerang, the cross-platform email and productivity solution, and Build A School In Burma (BSB) announced today that Boomerang has committed $25,000 to fund BSB’s 17th school in Myanmar, the country also known as […]
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Don Ka Mar Chuang 1-8 School
Don Ka Mar Chuang is BSB’s most remote project. The village, located on a small island in southern Myanmar, is challenging to reach in good weather, but in the rainy season it can be impossible. So even though there are regional schools, the difficult geography made it imperative that this village have its own school. An existing school […]
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Sahtihla K-8 Monastic School
As recently as 5 years ago, Kyo Kyar village students had to go elsewhere for their education. Kyo Kyar is a poor farming community in upper Myanmar, in the eastern part of Shwe Bo, Sagaing Division – about 50 miles NNW of Mandalay. Fortunately, in 2012, the village managed to cobble together various places on […]
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Htone Gyi Primary & Middle Schools
Htone Gyi is in Bago Division about an hour and a half drive from Yangon. Its population of more than 200 households is primarily ethnic Karen. BSB has completed two school projects here. When BSB was first approached to help, the school was terribly overcrowded, with higher-grade classes held outdoors under the eaves. In 2013, in […]
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Tar Lu Pa Taw Middle School
The children of Tar Lu Pa Taw can now continue their education from the required 4th grade through 8th grade. A 40-year old school, dilapidated from age and damaged in 2008 by Cyclone Nargis, was an unsafe place for children to learn and has been replaced by the new school. An existing building constructed in […]
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Ohn Chaung Secondary School
Ohn Chaung Village is on a remote beach on the Bay of Bengal in the southwest corner of Myanmar. Offering classes from kindergarten through high school, it has the only high school within 20 miles and draws students from seven nearby villages. This school has an excellent group of teachers and staff, and students achieve […]
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Pain Sar Village Preschool
Pain Sar is a village of about 320 inhabitants, primarily Lahu, but also Kachin, Lisu, Shan and Bamar, and a mix of Christian and Buddhist. It is about 25 miles from Lashio in Northern Shan State. Most of the children do not speak Burmese, making primary school a challenge since classes are all conducted in […]
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What we are up to in 2018
Team members Bob Cornwell, Andrew Lederer and Dan Kipp have all visited Myanmar this year to check up on our existing schools, review those under construction and seek new opportunities to help provide Burmese kids with access to education. What we are able to accomplish in a year depends upon the generosity of our supporters. […]
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