Post Tagged with: "Yangon"

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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15Nov
2011

Marc Piano’s Library Reading Report

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

Assessment of Aid Programs Three Years After Cyclone Nargis

in Overall Nargis Recovery Strategy, Press

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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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6Jan
2010

Knowledge Bank Library–

in Libraries, Newsletter
Knowledge Bank Library–

Happy New Year!!  We wish you all the best for this 2010. Let me give you  good news.  I am now attaching photos of a new library which we all should be proud of.  This is a newly opened private library located in central Yangon (on Fraser Road near Sule Pagoda).   95% of  books  in these photos are donated by us.  Most are from Thrift Books, some are donated by the  University of Washington Library.  Since this library concentrate on [...]

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23Feb
2009

TCG unveils three-year plan to rebuild livelihoods in delta

in Overall Nargis Recovery Strategy

A three-year recovery plan for cyclone-damaged areas in Ayeyarwady and Yangon divisions was launched last Monday and will focus on rebuilding the livelihoods of about 2.4 million people. The government has welcomed the Post-Nargis Response and Preparedness Plan, which also provides for building houses and cyclone shelters before the start of the next cyclone season in May. The plan, released in Bangkok, was compiled by the Tripartite Core Group and is based on a needs survey it conducted late last [...]

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