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Ma Khin Lay is a 37-year-old married woman living in Htee Lone village in Taunggyi Township. She has two children in the 5th and 7th grades. Ma Khin attended school up to grade 5, and her husband never attended school. She and her husband grow corn, garlic, and rice. In addition, they had a pig [...]
What makes Shanta unique in the humanitarian and community development world? Our unique development model has three pillars of sustainability that ensure a permanent (yes, permanent!) solution to poverty: 1) A holistic approach that addresses all of the interlocking and self-reinforcing dimensions of poverty. 2) A mechanism for villagers to self-finance village development work through [...]
A Leader Is Born! U Lee Tan is a forty-year-old husband, father of two, and a farmer from Shanta’s partner village, Chaung Kaut. In 2015, when the partnership began, he was elected by his fellow villagers to be on the Village Development Team and to serve as the cashier for the Community Loan Fund. He [...]
Written by a staff member in Myanmar: Military regime in Myanmar lasted from 1962 to 2011 and resumed again in 1st February 2021. The military detained the recently elected leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and other civilian officials, including State counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint, cabinet ministers, [...]
By now, you may have heard about the political upheaval that took place January 31, 2021 in Myanmar. Of note, the military has staged a coup and prevented those elected in the November 2020 elections from taking power. They have placed the country under martial law for one year. They have also detained Daw Aung [...]
