Post Tagged with: "Nargis Library Recovery"

2Apr
2012

RENEWED LIBRARIES PARALLEL RENEWED PARLIAMENT

in About the Project, Libraries, Newsletter, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF
RENEWED LIBRARIES PARALLEL RENEWED PARLIAMENT

When Nargis Library Recovery began we faced a very uncertain political landscape with possible closure any day. We jockeyed between D.C. and Naypyidaw with little confidence that either capital would allow our venture to progress. And we had no certain supply of books, with no funds to freight them to Yangon even if we got donations.  Three years later we have significant changes in Naypyidaw, much conversation in D.C. about which sanctions to drop, and how soon, plus an ongoing [...]

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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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12Nov
2011

Myanmar Language Books Distributed

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

As for average number of copies per title, it is about 5 copies per title. As for books, we donate both children and adult.  Below are the subject area that we usually chose. 1. Children Books – eg. books published by Ko Tar 2. Self-help books3. Livelihood books4. History and culture5. Politics and current affairs6. Fiction7. Non-fiction8. Magazine and Journals9. Exercise books, pencils and stationaries As for 2009-10, we donated 45,662 copies of titles.  So far, we have donated 58,334 [...]

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10Jun
2011

New Donation Opportunity

in Donations

  Make a gift to Nargis Library Recovery from your Minimum Required Distribution   Individuals over the age of 70 ½ can make annual tax-free deductions in 2011 of up to $100,000 from their IRAs directly to Nargis Library Recovery or other charitable entity. This is a limited time opportunity. You may contribute from your IRA if: You are age 70½ or older The gift is $100,000 or less You make the gift on or before Dec. 31, 2011. You [...]

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2Apr
2011

Rural Library Development Foundation, Myanmar’s First

in Libraries, Press
Rural Library Development Foundation, Myanmar’s First

With no fanfare our NLR/MBAPF project became the model for Myanmar’s national program to sustain rural libraries. MYANMAR TIMES By Sandar Lwin March 7 – 13,, 2011 NEW LIBRARY CARDS MAKE HAPPY KIDS THE task facing administrators and backers of rural libraries is immense. While lack of funding means many are under-resourced, a greater challenge, experts say, is simply getting people to pick up a book. “Rural society has basically been divorced from reading for a century. We have only [...]

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27Mar
2011

2011-2013 NLR Funding and Program Goals

in About the Project, Donations, Friends of NLR

  Report by our ad-hoc committee:  John Badgley, Roger Paget, and Jack Simpson, with appended comment by Dave Richards WE ARE A UNIQUE ORGANIZATION – AN ACCOMPLISHMENT IN ITSELF NLR’s greatest achievement may be simply “opening up” Myanmar to more involvement, showing that even with sanctions and the bad feeling between the US and Myanmar, a small lightly funded organization from the US can make a big difference. Our opinion is supported by these facts: We have developed constructive relationships [...]

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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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18Mar
2011

Letter from Billings Librarian to Myanmar Library Friends

in About the Project, Friends of NLR, Newsletter, Our Myanmar Partner-MBAPF, Tour Reports

Letter to Myanmar Library Friends February 10, 2011 Each of you asked if I would share impressions of Myanmar libraries and your efforts to assist them, formed as a result of the December tour. I’m sending these thoughts while the journey is still fresh in my mind, in hopes that there might be something of value to you, although I suspect that you will have already thought of and discussed most of these ideas. I focus on libraries in the [...]

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16Jan
2011

Our books distributed to Monywe-ywa libraries

in Libraries, Library Photos, Photo Galleries

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

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24Feb
2009

Devastation from Nargis Cyclone

in Featured, Newsletter, Photo Galleries
Devastation from Nargis Cyclone

On May 3, 2008, Cyclone Nargis completed its devastating sweep across the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar (formerly called Burma), passing directly over Yangon. No natural disaster has taken so many lives or destroyed so much habitation in Myanmar. This event resulted in 135,000 dead or missing and rendered an estimated 800,000 people homeless. Additionally, large areas of the country experienced huge infrastructure, housing and agricultural damage which will take years to repair. By any account, this was a catastrophic disaster.

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