Post Tagged with: "Dr. May Moe Nwe"

2Aug
2012

Donations: Nwe’ Kwe Library [$8,800] + Yangon/Mandalay Book Fairs [$10,000] for Burmese texts

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Donations: Nwe’ Kwe Library [$8,800] + Yangon/Mandalay Book Fairs [$10,000] for Burmese texts

We also raised $10,000 worth of kyats at book fairs in Yangon and Mandalay this past week. Thanks again for all your support and generous donation. With best regards, Thant

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23Jul
2012

Our New Library in Nwe’ Kwe Village

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Our New Library in Nwe’ Kwe Village

May and I just came back from Nwe’ Kwe after donating Kyat 7,740,000. UNWA donation of US$ 8800 x 880 rate) to Myinta Nanda Monastic School.   Attached is the donation receipt from the Sayadaw with photos of the construction. Once we informed the Sayadaw about UNWA grant, he started constructing the library.  It is quite spacious. It measures 44′ x 32′ & will be used not only as a library but also as a community centre.  The total cost [...]

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11Jul
2011

A Perfect Monday

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

Black Fridays are commonplace in this era of financial stress; perfect Mondays come much less frequently. Today achieved that stature because of five contributors: Professors Frank Ching and Barry Onouye, just retired after a career of teaching in the University of Washington’s Department of Architecture and donated a gaylord box filled with texts & references in their field; then Marc Piano located a potential donor with 300,000 books in England; and Carolyn Aamot, University of Washington’s Gifts Librarian, steered Ching [...]

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