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Imagine walking a mile to retrieve water for your everyday use. It may require several trips a day to complete ordinary tasks like cooking, cleaning, animal care, and watering garden plants. These treks were part of a daily routine for the people of Aung Le village in the Pi Laung Township. Village leaders regularly organized [...]
While I am always enthusiastic about Shanta's work, I get truly enthused when I think about Shanta's future. On the cusp of expansion with a blueprint of the Village Partnership Model (VPM) in the works, we are poised to take our next step as a thought leader and influencer in the development space. More importantly, [...]
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 [...]
