Objectives and Projects

Our objectives are:

- To help meet the costs of educational material (exercise books, pencils, pens, rubbers, schoolbags, etc.) for as many schools as possible in Myanmar, formerly Burma, and the free schools of the Monasteries where they lack basic school equipment.

- To construct or refurbish schools wherever needed.

We are currently focusing on Burma, but as soon as we have media and local volunteers in any other country, we will also start to extend our help over there.

                   Helping them in their education will change their lives.

Give them the opportunity to have a basic education and give them a better future.

The development in these towns is impossible without giving the children the basic education that they deserve. Without basic education, they will never be able to achieve economical, social or health development. Education will allow them to change their own situations as well as the situations of their families and the towns in which they live.

Basic education helps to reduce poverty rates.

Registration costs for a child in a public school in Burma costs more or less 10 American dollars, approximately 8 euros. A contribution of 12 exercise books and 6 pencils per child (enough for one school year) costs 8 American dollars in Myanmar.

In Myanmar, we rely on the indispensable and selfless input of volunteers from our organization and several men and woman in Burma. They are in charge of: first verifying the exact number of children that need the materials, distributing the materials to these children, and then maintaining site control.

For the free schools of the Monastery, we donate the necessary basic school materials and help the volunteer teachers.

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April 2012. New Project.- Construction of the school Man Pyay

Today, we are pleased to announce that the Escolaridad Solidaria NGO will be taking on a new project. We are going to construct a school in Burma (Myanmar) called Man Pyay, situated in Twenta Township Yangon Division.

We have been distributing school materials to this school for the last two years where approximately 200 children go.  You may recognise from the pictures that: “if within poverty you can talk of major poverty, this school is the highest form of poverty”.

This school was manually constructed with bamboo canes. Unfortunately, this winter, the town has suffered storms and high winds, which have damaged the school.

We are going to help construct the new school and help by 50% with a local NGO in Burma called Compassionate Hands. This local NGO has been collaborating with us in other projects. They contributed with the help of doctors when we were distributing the school material. They have carried out a medical examination on each child of every school we went to. They always help us in all we ask for.

The total budget for the construction of the new school is 20,000 USD (approximately 16,000€). Both ourselves and the local NGO will contribute 50% of the construction cost.

For Escolaridad Solidaria, this is a big challenge because, as you may know, we do not apply for public subsidies. Our financing only comes from the contribution of all collaborators and from some fundraising activities that we organize and notebooks that we sell. However, all of our efforts are worthwhile. We are sure we can achieve this challenge, as these children deserve to have a decent school. We cannot expect it to be a school like here in Spain, but for them this will mean a lot.

At the end of February the school year in Burma finishes, so now is the time to start the construction of this new school and to have it ready for June.

We will keep you updated on the construction of the school.

Thank you for of all your efforts and we hope that this new project will fill you with joy and personal satisfaction.

- February 2012

This school year in Burma (from June 2011 till February 2012) we have been able to increase our help both in the number of schools and the number of children. This school year we have helped 10 schools and more than 2254 children. Below, you will find a summary of the schools; with the number of children and the dates on which donations were made. In the Activities Report 2011 published in this same section, you will see all the information on this school year:

2º PROJECT SCHOOL MATERIAL IN MYANMAR (BURMA)

School year June 2011 to February 2012

Schools: Children:

Coleg 1 Pat Le Village (Patle Monastic Education School) 224.-

KunTeeChaung Village track, MawLaMyeinKyun

Township (MawKyun Township) Ayeyawaddy Division

Date of Donation: 22/09/2011

Coleg.2 Mya Taung Gratis School of Monastery 64.-

Mya Taung Village. Kuntee Chaung Village track  MawLaMyeinKyun Township(Mawkyun Township) Ayeyawaddy Division

Date of Donation: 22/09/2011

Coleg.3 Kwin Chaung Gratis Scholl of Monastery 80.-

Kyitpi Village Track. MawlaMyanKyun Township

(MawKyun).- Ayeyawaddy Disision.

Date of Donation: 23/09/2011

Coleg. 4 NownKaw Village School Monastery 87.-

NownKaw Village, Kyitpi Village Track Reales 93

MawLaMyanKyun Township (MawKyun) Ayeyawaddy Division

Date of Donation 23/09/2011

Coleg. 5 Yekyaw Primary School 205.-

YeKyaw Village, ThiToSait Village Track  MawLaMyainKyun Township(MawKyun)

Ayeyawaddy Division.

Date of Donation: 24/09/2011

Coleg,6 Zabu Oak Shaung School of Nunnery 470.-

Tamanaing Village, Thanlyin Kyaut Tan Tsp,

Yangon Division

Date of Donation: 30/07/2011

Coleg.7 Aye YaitTha School of Monastery 189.-

HanLnn Street Word No 133, DagonMyo Thit(East)

Yangon Division

Date of Donation: 06/09/2011

Coleg.8 Man Pyay Sasana Yeiktha School of Monastery 170.-

O-Bo Village (Traditional pottery Village)

Twentay Township. Yangon Division

Date of Donation: 30/07/2011

Coleg.9 Yadanatheingyi School of Nannary 179.-

# 25, Sagaing Mountain Range, Sagaing Township, Sagaing Division.

Date of Donation: 04/08/2011

Coleg.10 Shwe Zedi Monastic education school 586.-

KyaunTatLan Ward,Sittwe Township, Rakhin State. Donc. 10-01-12

TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN: 2.254.-

FEBRUARY 2011.-

The Board of Directors is working on the 2^nd Project of donations of school material for Myanmar for next school year going from June 2011 till February 2012. We will help the same 9 schools from last year having a total of 2000 children. We also wish to help another school this year, the “Shwe Zedi Monastic Education School” in the state of Rakhine which suffered the Cyclone Giri. This would mean that we would be helping another 600 children!

Next school year we wish to DONATE: Exercise books, pencils, pens, rubbers, rulers, rucksacks and if possible some school uniforms.

2^nd PROJECT SCHOOL MATERIAL DONATIONS IN MYANMAR (BURMA)

School year: June 2011 till February 2012

SCHOOLS: Children:

Total of children: 2600 – 3000

Coleg 1 Pat Le Village (Patle Monastic Education School)

KunTeeChaung Village track, MawLaMyeinKyun

Township (MawKyun Township). Ayeyawaddy Div

Coleg.2 Mya Taung Gratis School of Monastery

Mya Taung Village. Kuntee Chaung Village track

MawLaMyeinKyun Township(Mawkyun Township)

Ayeyawaddy Division

Coleg.3 Kwin Chaung Gratis Scholl of Monastery

Kyitpi Village Track. MawlaMyanKyun Township

(MawKyun).- Ayeyawaddy Disision.

Coleg. 4 NownKaw Village School Monastery

NownKaw Village, Kyitpi Village Track

MawLaMyanKyun Township (MawKyun)

Ayeyawaddy Division

Coleg. 5 Yekyaw Primary School

YeKyaw Village, ThiToSait Village Track

MawLaMyainKyun Township(MawKyun)

Ayeyawaddy Division.

Coleg,6 Zabu Oak Shaung School of Nunnery

Tamanaing Village, Thanlyin Kyaut Tan Tsp,

Yangon Division

Coleg.7 Aye YaitTha School of Monastery

HanLnn Street Word No 133, DagonMyo Thit(East)

Yangon Division

Coleg.8 Man Pyay Sasana Yeiktha School of Monastery

O-Bo Village (Traditional pottery Village)

Twentay Township. Yangon Division

Coleg.9 Yadanatheingyi School of Nannary

Sagaing

Coleg.10 Shwe Zedi Monastic education school

Rakhine

Total niños y niñas aproximado: de 2,600 a 3,000.

NOVEMBER 2010.-

Thanks to all of your efforts with our First Project of school material donations to 9 schools in Burma, we wish to inform you that:

Firstly, we have heard on the news that two important things occurred in this country. On the 7^th of November, general elections turned out with the expected result: the party currently in power won the elections and a few days later the leader of the opposing party Suu Kyi was released after having been in house arrest for many years.

Secondly, some days before on the 22^nd and 23^rd of October, a cyclone battered the south-west area of Burma in the state of Rakhine.

For political reasons, Internet and telephone access were cut off for 15 days. The whole country has been under strict control. Our collaborators could not work in normal conditions and some activities we wanted to carry out have been impossible to achieve, but they, together with many other people have immediately started to help getting food and medicine to this damaged area of the country.

One of the schools in the state of Rakhine has suffered lots of damage. It was proposed to include this school “Shwe Zedi Monastic Education School” as the tenth school for donations of school equipment for the next year. This school has 600 children from preschool up to grade 11 (in the last two grades, the number of pupils is minimum).

We wish to donate school equipment this year once again such as pencil sharpeners, rubbers, rulers and school bags as well as donations of notebooks and pencils which are the most important. Due to reasons mentioned before, we are unsure as to whether we’ll have time to do so before the end of the school year in February. We’ll communicate new events later on.

FIRST PROJECT –  SCHOOL EQUIPMENT MYANMAR.

April 2010.- After several months of work, we have extended our goals to 9 schools. We hope to help 1500 children thanks to the support given by new Collaborators in Escolaridad Solidaria ONG to satisfy the ever-increasing needs of Burma. Register yourself as Collaborator. Your Collaboration is very important to us!

This school year 06/2010 – 02/2011, we are working for the following schools having registered the number of children indicated below at 13/07/2010:

Report of the first Project in Myanmar

We are pleased to inform you that the first delivery of school equipment to the 9 schools in Burma (Myanmar) for the school year June 2010-February 2011 has been executed to our full satisfaction.

We have sent you pictures of each donation delivery in each college so you would get to know the Project better.

The number of children has increased: a total of 1564 children, most of them orphans. Each child received a dozen of notebooks and a dozen pencils and pens.

More information below on the date of each donation:

1. Donation.- 14-08-2010 Yadanatheingvy Grais School of Nannary (Sagaing) with 188 children.

2. Donation.- 21-08-2010 Zabu Oak Shaung Gratis School of Nunnery of Tamanaig Village, with 350 children instead of 282 that were registered (unfortunately an increasing number of children have to attend the Monasteries schools).

3. Donation.- 27-08-2010 Aye Yaitha Gratis School of Monastery of Hanlnn Street, DagonMyo Thit, con 198 children en vez de los 200 que había en un principio.

4. Donation.- 3-09-2010 Man Pyay Saana Yeiktha Gratis School of Monastery of O-Bo Village Twentay Township, with 148 children.

5. Donation.- 18-09-2010 Pat le Village Monastery, Kunteechaung Village, with 216 children.

6. Donation.- 18-09-2010 Mya Taung Gratis School of Monastery, Mya Taung Village, with 111 children.

7. Donation.- 19-09-2010 Yekyaw Priamry School, Yekyaw Village, with 190 children.

8. Donation.- 20-09-2010 Kwin Chaung Gratis Scholl of Monastery, Kyitpi Village, with 80 children.

9. Donation.- 20-09-2010 Nownkaw Village Gratis School Monastery, Nownkaw Village, with 83 children.

We are greatly satisfied as this was our first Project and there were many difficulties. But we have been capable of overcoming them and the result has been much better than expected. Escolaridad Solidaria ONG wishes to thank all those who belong to our NGO. Thanks to all of you we have been able to achieve the first Project of school donations in Burma.

We are already studying and preparing other projects, some already for this school year, others for the next one. We will give you full information on each Project. Should you require further information or want to participate in our Project, in any way please do not hesitate to contact us.