Burmese Orphans Update for 2011

This year we will be raising donations for 2 communities – LKW and Arunotai/Nong Ook village with the goal to raise $3000 for LKW used as maintenance for the orphanage and $2000 for Arunotai / Nong Ook for their school. Here’s a summary of the 2011 mission and more information on LW and Arunotai/Nong Ook.

Budget & How Funds were Spent at LKW in 2010

2011 Loi Kaw Wan Burmese Orphan Project

The MMC Southeast Asia Mission Report

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The Schools of Hope in Arunotai/Nong Ook.

Next year Dr. Myron and Elaine Semkuley will visit this new village. They will meet some very inspiring Burmese people who are working to help children get an education. The founders are a monk – Pramaha Virote Visutho & a teacher Noon Hkurh and Ms. Inger-Lise. Here’s some information from their website:

Schools of Hope is a Thai non-profit organization established in 2008. Its mission is to set up schools along the Thai/Burmese border to offer free basic education and proper assistance to disadvantaged children of displaced and migrant families from Shan State.

The first school opened in May 2009 in Arunotai/Nong Ook village, Chiang Mai province. Nong Ook is a small border town along a porous, unmarked border with Burma, where people continue to flee across the border to escape harsh conditions.

Today we provide more than 50 children (aged from 4 to 17 years) with learning materials, clothes, three healthy meals per day, healthcare and give a shelter to orphans and abandoned children.

Students at Schools of Hope (grade 1 to 4) learn to read and write Thai, Shan and English and get basic knowledge in mathematics, geography, history, science and local culture. We also help the children to develop social skills and offer them the possibility to follow vocational training (farming projects, environmental activities, etc.).


Pramaha Virote1 Profile

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Where to Send Your Donation.

Donations to support the Burmese orphans can be sent directly to MMC or to my post office box to my attention. Be sure to address your cheque to MMC and write on the memo line that the funds be directed to the Burmese Orphans’ Fund.

    My post office box is: #668, 440 10816 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2J 5N8.

    MMC’s address is: Bay 6, 1216 34 Ave NE, Calgary Alberta, T2E 6L9.

As long as your donation reaches MMC by mid December, the funds will go directly to supporting the orphans in 2012 while Dr. Myron and Elaine Semkuley are on mission to SE Asia.

Thank you for your care, your heart and for your generosity!

Best Regards, Eileen Ashmore

Photos of the Children at LKW

More Information on the Plight of Burmese Orphans:

These are articles have been written by Noon Hkurh and Sai Kawn Wan.

• H R Report: Children on the Border
• Hungry for Opportunities, by Noom Hkurh

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