Tallinn Univeristy’s LIFE project and the supported kids of NGO Mondo Brilliant Fund.

NGO Mondo Brilliant Fund was created to support students and promote education in the destination countries of Mondo, including Myanmar/Burma. NGO Mondo has supported the education of Shan area kids in Namlan primary and secondary school for three years. In the first 2 years 5 students got the funding and the number was raised to 9 kids in the current school year, 2018/2019. Hopefully with the help of Tallinn Univeristy’s LIFE project we will manage to cover the living and education expenses of 10 brilliant kids from low-income families in  Shan areas.

 

Brilliant Fund in Burma/Myanmar:

• Cost of education – 1 student, 1 year: 300€

• Goal for the school year 2019/2020: to support 10 students

• Support is going to the brilliant and devoted kids

• The selected kids are supported till the end of high school (if the support is needed)

• Selection of the kids is made based on their results, determination and need for the support. The selection is made by NGO Mondo’s partner organisation CRED with the help of the teachers.

 

The supported students are all ethnic Shan and are coming from Northen Shan villages. It is usually possibile to the get the elementary education (5 years) in those remote villages, but to continue the studies, the students have to move to the bigger cities, where middle and high schools are situated. Moving to the bigger centres is very expensive for the local families and is also often geographically difficult from the remote villages. Those are the main reasons why the education for those kids ends after 5 years.

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NGO Mondo’s parterorganisation CRED (Centre of Rural Education and Development) mission

• Built bording house in Namlan

• Supporting classes in shan language

Centre of Rural Education and Development (CRED),  NGO Mondo’s partner organisation in Shan State, has built a boarding house in Namlan for all of the students from small villages, so they could continue their studies in the Burmese language middle and high schools. The only way to continue the studies after elementary school is in official government schools which operate in Burmese language. Kids, from the remote villages, whose mother thongue is Shan and have never learned Burmese are facing the new challenges to learn the new language and continue the studies far away from home.

 

CRED’s mission is  organise after school Shan language support classes, which follow the offical curriculum taught in Burmese. This is the only way the Shan students are able to continue and finish their studies.

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