Post Tagged with: "U Thaw Kaung"

25May
2011

Half-million books

in About the Project, Donations, Sponsors

This past week our 11th container shipped from Seattle bound for Yangon.  Thrift Books has fulfilled half of its million books pledge! May 3rd marked the third anniversary of Cyclone Nargis’ devastating pass across the Irrawaddy delta and Yangon. Family friends of a half-century were affected by this catastrophy, including U Thaw Kaung’s family who stepped forward to help libraries recover. Nargis Library Recovery is a personal response to aid villages, towns and monasteries;  after three years  I speak for [...]

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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

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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