Survey of Post-Nargis Self-reliant Organizations. From Yangon weeklies, by Dr. Than Than Win 1)Mobile Library Lending Books Free of Charge -Weekly Eleven , 1 July 2009, p. 30 Kambawza Youth Self-Reliance Library on East Myopat Road has been sending 200 books every two months to twenty one small libraries in townships, wards, villages, monasteries, and charity libraries in southern Shan State and Kayah State. The program is called Sharing mobile book boxes. It started in 2007. and the Library now [...]

NARGIS LIBRARY RECOVERY PROJECT NEWSLETTER #7, SEPTEMBER 2009 We enter a new stage this month: considering direct aid to a Yangon library deluged since Nargis Cyclone with students who lost their libraries. We had added books, now we want to supply funds for more internet access, more shelving, more space and more desks to serve their 4000 members. Their story is electric. It illustrates the rise within Myanmar of NGOs that carry out vital functions within communities and across civil [...]