Post Tagged with: "Bogalay"

31Jan
2012

Our Three Library Readers Workshops

in About the Project, Cultural, Libraries, Newsletter, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF, Sponsors

Check out Jack Simpson’s blog following our Library Readers workshops organized by Gayle Holmes and Sue Simpson. I am grateful for financial support offered by the  Opportunity Foundation and the considerable effort by the leadership of MBAPF in organizing this pedagogical experiment in Bogalay, Yangon and Mandalay! Over ninety participants–librarians, teachers, administrators and monks–learned how to teach early readers through a method that invites children and readers alike to ease into English through imaginative games that Gayle and her husband, [...]

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28Jan
2012

Monastic Schools for Orphans in the delta

in About the Project, Libraries, Library Photos, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF, Tour Reports
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

in About the Project, Libraries, Library Photos, Newsletter, Tour Reports
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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3Nov
2011

Assessment of Aid Programs Three Years After Cyclone Nargis

in Overall Nargis Recovery Strategy, Press

L2GP_Myanmar_Nargis_study

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27Mar
2011

Daw Ah Win’s Comment on the Cochran Trip Report

in Tour Reports

Dear Bill, First of all your thoughts are very valuable.  I really want to know how you evaluated Myanmar’s current library development and what suggestions you have for the future.  These are the seeds and the plants can not come out without the seeds.  What follows is information for you as we did not have time for discussion during the trip. Partnership Concerning  our partnership, I would like to describe my role.  UNWG, Vienna, is not a partner with NLR [...]

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27Mar
2011

December 2010 Trip Activities

in About the Project, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF, Tour Reports

By David Leuthold Activities during Myanmar Trip, December 2010 Wednesday December 8. Arrive at Winner Inn about 5:30 pm Welcome Dinner sponsored by Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation (MBAPF) at Royal Garden restaurant at 7 pm. Guests included U Thaw Kaung, founder of Myanmar’s Library Diploma program, distinguished historian, patron of NLR project and father of Thant Thaw, Thaw’s wife Su-Su, Thant Thaw, his wife May Moe Nwe, Dr. Robert Taylor and Dr. Myo Myint (Cornell PhD, former Director-General [...]

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21Jul
2010

Tour Myanmar & Our Libraries in December 2010

in About the Project

I visit Myanmar annually,  more often since our Nargis Library Recovery started, usually accompanied with a few friends and interested newcomers. The tour remains very economical and the country has more regions open to learners than any time in the past half-century. A daughter of an adviser to this project  arranges details and pricing for each trip through her travel agency, which is independent of the government, a start-up she created by franchising with Exotissimo, an Italian global agency. I [...]

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