Myanmar-Kinderhilfe Stiftung
Max-Eyth-Str. 21
72622 Nürtingen
Germany
Contact person: Jörn Ziegler
+49 (0)7022 9259-30
+49 (0)7022 9259-44
info@myanmar-kinderhilfe.de
ziegler@childfund.de
https://www.myanmar-kinderhilfe.de/
Topics
- Aid organization
- Educational policy/project
- Social policy/disabled persons
About us
The Myanmar Children's Assistance Foundation is a charitable trust foundation run by the ChildFund Foundation and is managed by it. It is the successor organization of the Myanmar Children's Aid Association, which has been run by Mr. Klaus Schröder since its founding in 2000 . Klaus Schröder, in cooperation with the child welfare organization ChildFund Germany, established the Myanmar Children's Assistance Foundation in September 2016, in order to secure the projects in Myanmar in the long term. This has become part of the global network of ChildFund organizations.
The goals of the foundation are:
• to sustainably improve the hygiene and health conditions of children and adolescents in Myanmar and
• to provide them with a solid school education and targeted practical training. The promotion of disadvantaged girls and boys of different ethnic minorities is of particular concern.
Projects:
• School and Education: We support six orphanages and six schools in Myanmar. The six Homes are affiliated to Buddhist monasteries (5) and a Catholic Order (1) and are supported by Burmese support groups. They depend on donations from the Burmese people, but these are almost exclusively food donations (especially rice) and clothing. There is no money for new buildings and renovations. We do not finance running costs, except for education costs and medicines. We take on the task of setting up schools, kitchens, drinking and wastewater systems, small clinics, toilets and shower rooms.
Together with an Australian support group, we have set up an apprentice tailoring workshop In the girls' Home in Kyaiklat which is very successful. Kani Boys' Home opened a training workshop for diesel engines used in agriculture and fisheries. We want to extend practical training because young people with such training have a good chance of finding a suitable job.
All the Homes have established an Education Fund, which we regularly support with a grant. In two Homes, retired Burmese teachers have been recruited as educators. They are responsible for all school and other training. Two of the homes have their own schools, which are also visited by neighbourhood children who can not afford state schools. At the Kin Ywa elementary and middle school in Mawlamyine, 550 children from the adjacent poor district are being taught and cared for. Attendance at these schools is of course free.
• Hygiene measures and health care: We first drill deep wells and create water supply systems with tanks and pipes. We build kitchens, washrooms and toilets connected to a septic tank sewer system. The larger homes have a small clinic. Our Burmese health team (a doctor and a health care professional) interviews and examines all the children, organizes hygiene and health care seminars, and regularly checks the Homes. The doctor receives quarterly health statistics from each Home. Our foundation supports the health and medical measures with an annual grant for the Health Fund of each orphanage.
• Emergency and Disaster Relief: Just two days after the devastating Cyclone Nargis in May 2008, our Burmese team, headed by our representative, Min Min L Min O, was in the disaster area providing first aid, especially to children. Our Burmese friends distributed food, mosquito nets, toiletries and clothing in the following weeks. Our sponsors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland have given us generous financial support. After emergency relief, we started with the complete reconstruction of three orphanages and two elementary schools. In 2015, unusually heavy monsoon storms and rains caused widespread flooding in many provinces and again in the delta area, where we had previously provided emergency relief in 2008. Our Burmese helpers hired trucks to transport the relief supplies, and in the disaster area where all roads were flooded, they lent boats to reach the remote and cut-off locations. Food, blankets and clothes were distributed to the people who could save themselves on the roofs.
Jörn Ziegler is the Managing Director of the Myanmar Children's Assistance Foundation.
On request we can offer other net participants advice, give a presentation, and provide up-to-date information and contacts in the field of our work.
