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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Thazin’s path to purpose and self-worth

Thazin is viewed as a role model in her village. Parents appreciate her kindness and patience, and they feel comfortable with their children spending time with her. Thazin dreams of becoming a community volunteer, teaching and sharing what she’s learned with younger children. “It makes me happy when other parents trust their kids with me,” she said with pride.

Khant is growing strong and healthy with better nutrition

Khant, 22-months-old, is healthy and growing strong. His mother, Nyo, 28, participated in World Vision’s Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition Programme...

No longer hungry at school

Nor Mai’s family used to live peacefully in their village surrounded by mountains. His father worked on their rice and vegetable plantation until the...

A night study group is thriving

A clean tar main road leads toward Htet’ village, which is surrounded by plots of palms trees and rubber plantations on the hills above the road. Htet...

A safety network for children

Pann, (meaning Flower) 14, lives in a small village that is surrounded by rubber plantations and areca palm trees in the coastal region. Her house is small...

Water frees our worry

People used to dread summer in Kokko Su village, a Delta region rice farming village. The wells ran dry from February to May. “The two wells only provided...

What's for Lunch?

Every school day Swe, 11, helps her grandmother to pack her lunch box. “My favourite is rice and potato-chicken curry. I also love watercress and prefer it...

Knowledge for life: 7 ways to predict floods in Myanmar, and how to best prepare

In parts of Myanmar where it floods every year; families have relied on nature’s warnings to indicate forthcoming danger, preparing them to react to raging...

Another remarkable day

World Vision Myanmar, in collaboration with the Government’s Anti-trafficking Task Force (ATTF) commemorated Human Trafficking in Person Day in Myanmar on...

What's next? Myanmar's flood survivors try to move on

Disasters aren’t about one family. And they last long after flood water has subsided. Six weeks ago, large parts of Myanmar were under water. Some Fast...

A momentous milestone for World Vision Myanmar

After 15 years working with commitment and dedication, a remarkable day arrived for World Vision Myanmar. The phasing out of our Area Development Programme...

School journey: Across rice fields, knee-deep mud, and a river

With the help of her mom and toddler brother, she prepares for her school day. Her class is six hours long. Aye Aye knows exactly how to keep herself from...

Myanmar Floods - Food matters

Chin State is situated in the far western part of Myanmar in a mountainous region. The state used to be a beautiful place with big trees and flowers that...

Despair in the wake of flooding

“I am very happy that I received these cooking utensils and others materials for my household. It is very useful for us when we return to our home to...

Early childhood development centre helps shy children increase confidence and get ready for school

Off the main highway, there is a road leading to a village in Kaying State, in the southern part of Myanmar which borders Thailand to the east. About one...

Cyclone Nargis- Transforming a nightmare to readiness

I was doing my normal work routine when I heard the storm warning from a radio that afternoon. It was May 2, 2008 just before Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar...

Flood response: Family kits distribution in Yenan Chaung Township

14 August 2015- World Vision distributed family kits from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia to 500 households. Each family kit...

Family kits arrive to help flood affected families

Family kits donated by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia for the floods affected families through World Vision Myanmar. These 500 kits...

Saving lives through distribution of over 129,600 liters of clean water

Photos by Thet Kaung Myat Oo/World Vision Villagers from Yay Lal Kyun and Chaung Wa village, Kyangin Township in Delta area are using boats and bamboo...

Clean water to drink amidst the flood

Photos by Khaing Min Htoo/World Vision Kyan Kan Kyune, Yenangyaung Township, Magway Region | This area faces floods every year, but this year the water...

Myanmar Flooding: What mothers in Delta region are afraid of

Daw Yin’s Worries “I only knew that the water had already flooded our home after I woke up,” Khin recalls. “I did not expect that the water would increase...

Relentless flooding in Myanmar's delta region - Kyangin

Htwe’s Family The flood swept into their home in the middle of the night. Eleven-year-old Htwe says the water quickly engulfed the floor. Htwe lives along...

World Vision delivers clean drinking water to flooded villages

Villages like Nga Lan Da and Yone Seik Kyunin in Yenan Chaung township, Magwe region, are hard to reach due to difficult transportation, which has limited...

World Vision Myanmar responding to massive flooding

Following massive flooding and landslides in the northwestern regions and states in Myanmar resulting from heavy monsoon rains aggravated by Cyclone Komen...

Escape from the sea

Htut was only 10 when he left his home to start working. Together with his friends, Htut went to the Myanmar-Thailand border to work. There he met a broker...