Archive for Category: "Library Photos"

19Feb
2012

Stamping Before Giving

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28Jan
2012

STELLAR STUDENT MANAGED LIBRARIES

Scattered in Myanmar’s two largest cities~~Yangon and Mandalay~~ are a dozen student-created and managed lending libraries. Each has the unique stamp of the young trustees who dreamed up their project. In each case, they came to our partner, Myanmar Book and Preservation Foundation, seeking books and in several instances, funding to expand their capacity. The photos that follow reveal a new generation of bright young men and women who tested among the top secondary school graduates, and applied for study [...]

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28Jan
2012

Monastic Schools for Orphans in the delta

I visited a dozen monastery-based schools where some of our English language books languish on shelves. Only a very few are used by advanced students; the vast majority of orphans and kids attending these schools have had no exposure to English, either spoken or written. All are gaining literacy in Burmese, but for those curious about literature, history or any knowledge beyond their basic texts [which cost between $1 and $1.70 for all required subjects], very few Myanmar language books [...]

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27Jan
2012

KEY ROLE OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES

Behind every local or neighborhood library in Myanmar are local trustees. Often unseen by users, yet they are crucial to the success of the library. Most frequently they are entrepreneurs~~business men and women who usually sustain one or more monasteries. Their influence in the community overlaps with senior monks, health professionals,  and government officials.                  Bogalay’s Tint Aung Library T

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15Nov
2011

Book Buffet at Yangon International School

     

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15Nov
2011

Marc Piano’s Library Reading Report

MARC PIANO’S REPORT OF HIS LIBRARY READER EXPERIENCE IN LATE AUGUST, 2011 On Monday morning I met with members of the Myanmar Youth Empowerment Program. Set up by 11 young men and women, this group teaches ‘soft skills’ to its students, based on education and training the founders received from the Pacific Education Trust. The school is based just outside of Yangon. As well as requesting books, it was agreed that I would visit on the Saturday. I also met [...]

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12Oct
2011

A Lao library project like ours!

http://www.vimeo.com/30051929

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15May
2011

NARGIS: When Time Stopped Breathing

The London International Doc Film Festival will be screening of ‘Nargis – when time stopped breathing’ at 6 p.m. at the Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom, WC1H 0PD on Saturday 21 May.  http://www.lidf.co.uk/film/nargis/ Synopsis: In May 2008 a cyclone called Nargis raged for hours in Myanmars Ayeyarwaddy Delta, killing 140,000 people. Two Burmese filmmakers couldn’t remain silent and felt compelled to go to the delta and record the devastation. Seven days after the storm, they made their way to scenes [...]

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17Apr
2011

Daw Ah Win’s Photo Memory of our December Tour

To see photos of a recent trip, visit Daw Ah Win’s photos here: https://picasaweb.google.com/ahwin2006/NLRTripMyanmar2010?feat=email#

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16Jan
2011

Our books distributed to Monywe-ywa libraries

Distributing Donated Books of Nargis Recovery Foundation http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=316089&id=616775217&fbid=10150121018845218

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12May
2010

Ashin Dhammapiya at Orphanage

The monk in that video is of monk Ashin Dhammapiya speaking to a dozen of us visiting his orphanage  under construction to house kids from the delta who lost their homes [some have parents, but they lack money to educate them). This monk is avid about education and his orphanage is actually a school which combines teaching monks with some secular teachers, especially those teaching English. Colby Morris, a Missoula high school senior, will teach there this July 2011, a [...]

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10May
2010

ICE Youth Library

ICE Youth came into life with the idea of sharing information. The idea was conceived by an ambitious young man called Kundan Chhabra. Kundan recruited the other young men who had the same vision. The Group first had a vision of founding a mobile library to support the communities nationwide with books and learning materials; the idea was refrained due to certain affordable financial, resources and volunteer limitations. After a year, many changes took place; a few joiners left for pursuing their further education [...]

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10May
2010

Braveheart Library

 

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8May
2010

Dr. Chit Maung Library

U Chit Maung Library is on the outskirts of Yangon in the town of Insein, adjacent to Myanmar Institute of Theology [MIT], a hundred year-old seminar founded and sustained by Baptists until 1963, when Ne Win expelled all missionaries. It is essentially a Karen institution, although Baptists from Kachin, Chin and other minorities are educated there.

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8May
2010

Ashin Dhammapiya Orphanage & Library

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