Wednesday, November 28, 2018

It takes a village…



When children live in conflict affected areas or in camps for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), their education will be one of the first things to be compromised. But when communities and local officials realize the future of those vulnerable children can be brighter through education, then it will be possible to keep children learning even in difficult circumstances.  

Grade 4 IDP children, originally from Zup Mai Yan village of Ingyanyan Township, learning Geography at Tang Hpre IDP camp, Kachin State on 15 November 2018.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/ Nyan Zay Htet
By Fre Yilma

In Kachin State, following the conflict in April 2018, children from villages in Njang Yang Township, including students and teachers from Zup Mai Yang village, took shelter in Tang Hpre IDP camp. Initially, the children were not able to start the 2018-2019 academic year. However, with the collaboration of the local community, State Parliamentarians and district education authorities children like Hkun Mai are now able to learn within the camp.

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Going blue for children in Myanmar

By Htet Htet Oo

Every year, 20th November, marks the day when the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, was adopted. In Myanmar, this year, children and adolescents took centre stage making it a day ‘for children, by children’. From the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, to Mandalay Region and Rakhine State, children and adolescents urged adults to recognise their rights and to hear their concerns and aspirations. Here are some of the voices of children and adolescents that UNICEF and the Department of Social Welfare helped to elevate throughout the country.

U-Reporters at the Union Parliament singing 'We Are the World' in Burmese
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet

Monday, October 29, 2018

Executive Directors and Board members from six UNICEF National Committees visit Myanmar

From 21-23 October 2018, Executive Directors and senior Board members from six UNICEF National Committees from the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Spain, visited UNICEF’s programmes in Myanmar to understand how UNICEF is supporting the Myanmar Government to meet the needs of children in the country. Their visit included both development and humanitarian programmes to understand first-hand what it means to be there for every child, no matter what their ethnicity, community, religion or language.

Executive Directors and Board Members of six UNICEF National Committees together with UNICEF Myanmar Representative and staff at U Thant (3rd UN Secretary General) House Museum, Yangon Myanmar 
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Fre Yilma

Friday, September 21, 2018

ကေလးသူငယ္ေနေပ်ာ္ေက်ာင္းမ်ား၏ သင္တန္းမ်ားက ကၽြန္မ၏ သင္ျပမႈစြမ္းရည္မ်ားကို တိုးတက္ေစခဲ့

By Tin Shwe


ဘူးသီးေတာင္၊ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ၇ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၀၁၈ -  ျဖဴေႏြမိုးသည္ ဘူးသီးေတာင္၊ အမွတ္(၂) အေျခခံပညာအထက္တန္းေက်ာင္းတြင္ ဒုတိယတန္း၊ လက္ေထာက္ဆရာမအေနျဖင့္ ဆယ္ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ တာ၀န္ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့သူ ျဖစ္သည္။

၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္မတုိင္မီထိ ျဖဴသည္ ဆရာ၊ဆရာမမ်ားကို အဓိကထားေသာ နည္းလမ္းျဖင့္သင္ၾကားပုိ႔ခ်ခဲ့ၿပီး ဆရာမတစ္ဦးအေနျဖင့္ သူမကိုသူမ ပုိမိုအဓိကထားေသာ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္မ်ားေပၚတြင္ အာရံုစိုက္ခဲ့သည္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္လည္း ယခုႏွစ္တြင္ သူမအတန္းအတြက္ ပညာေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာနက သင္ရိုးသစ္ကုိ စတင္ မိတ္ဆက္လိုက္ေသာအခါ သူမသည္ ျခားနားခ်က္ကုိသတိျပဳခဲ့မိသည္။ သင္ရိုးသစ္တြင္ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမမ်ားက အတန္းသင္ခန္းစာမ်ားႏွင့္ သင္ၾကားမႈပစၥည္းမ်ား ျပင္ဆင္ရာတြင္လည္းေကာင္း၊ အတန္း ေလ့က်င့္ခန္းမ်ားတြင္ တပည့္မ်ား တက္ၾကြစြာပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္မႈတြင္လည္းေကာင္း ေတာင္းဆိုမႈမ်ား မ်ားျပားလာသည္။ 

 စီအက္ဖ္အက္စ္နည္းလမ္းကိုသံုး၍ ဒုတိယတန္းေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအား ဆရာမ ျဖဴေႏြမိုးမွ သင္ၾကားေနပံု
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Tin Shwe
ဂ်ပန္အစိုးရ၏အေထာက္အပံ့ျဖင့္ ယူနီဆက္ဖ္က ကူညီပံ့ပိုးေသာ အေျခခံပညာဦးစီးဌာနက ဖြင့္လွစ္သည့္ ကေလးေပ်ာ္ေက်ာင္းမ်ား(စီအက္ဖ္အက္စ္)သည္ သင္ရိုးသစ္သုိ႔ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္းျဖင့္  ဆရာ/ဆရာမမ်ားကို ကူညီရန္ ရည္ရြယ္သည္။ ဘာသာစကား ကံုလံုၾကြယ္၀ေရးအစီအစဥ္ႏွင့္ ေပါင္းစပ္ထားေသာ ဤသင္တန္းက မိခင္ ဘာသာစကားသည္ ျမန္မာစကားမဟုတ္ေသာ ကေလးမ်ားကို ပုိမုိ အေထာက္အကူျဖစ္ေစရန္ ဆရာ/ဆရာမမ်ားကို ပံ့ပုိးကူညီေပးသည္။

Child Friendly Schools’ training greatly improved my teaching skills

By Tin Shwe


Buthidaung, Rakhine State, 7 September 2018 - Phyu Nway Moe is a Grade 2 Assistant Teacher who has worked at the Basic Education State High School (2) in Buthidaung for more than 10 years. 

Up until 2018, Phyu taught a ‘teacher-centred’ method in her class, focusing activities more on her as the teacher. However, when the Ministry of Education introduced a new curriculum for her class this year, she noticed a difference in which the new curriculum increases demands on both teachers, in the preparation of classes and teaching materials, and pupils, in their active participation in class exercises.

Phyu Nway Moe teaching her her Grade 2 students using the CFS method 
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Tin Shwe
The Child Friendly Schools (CFS), provided by the Department of Basic Education with support from UNICEF through the funding from the Government of Japan, is aimed to help teachers through this transition to the new curriculum. The training is also combined with the Language Enrichment programme, to help teachers working with children whose mother tongue is not Myanmar.

Monday, September 17, 2018

On World Cleanup Day, UNICEF Sittwe Office organizes environmental action for children

By Chris Schuepp

SITTWE, RAKHINE STATE, 15 September 2018 - The UNICEF Field Office in Sittwe, Rakhine State, organized a significant clean-up of the local beach on World Cleanup Day 2018. More than 300 participants from UNICEF, people in the local community and international partners in Sittwe and came together during the weekend to clean a six kilometre stretch of beach in the capital of Rakhine State.


“Supporting the provision of clean and safe areas for children is one of our priorities. We set a sign by inviting our partners and the community in Sittwe to join us on World Clean-up Day and translate our words into action together,” said Mandie Alexander, Chief of Field Office for UNICEF in Sittwe. “We are grateful for the support from the local municipality in the proper disposal of the garbage we collected on the beach.”

Monday, September 3, 2018

မိခင္ႏွင့္ကေလးျပဳစုေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈ အသိပညာမ်ားေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္၊ ေက်းလက္ေဒသမ်ားရွိ ကေလးသူငယ္မ်ားထံ ေရာက္ရွိျခင္း

*အလက္စ္ဇႏၵာ၀င္းေရးသာသည္

မဂ်ီးဆိပ္၊ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ - ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္၊ ေတာင္ႀကီးၿမိဳ႕ကို မိခင္နွင့္ကေလးက်န္းမာေရး ျပႆနာဆုိင္ရာ အခ်က္အလက္ေတြေကာက္ယူဖုိ႔ ခရီးသြားခဲ့တဲ့ ယူနီဆက္ဖ္အဖြဲ႕၀င္တစ္ေယာက္အေနျဖင့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ရဲ႕ အဓိကတာ၀န္ကေတာ့ ေဒသဆိုင္ရာ က်န္းမာေရးအဖြဲ႕မ်ား၊ မိခင္မ်ားနွင့္ ကေလးမ်ားကို ေတြ႔ဆံု ေမးျမန္းျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေတာင္ႀကီးကေန အင္းေလးကန္ကို တစ္နာရီၾကာ ကားနဲ႔သြားေရာက္ၿပီး ေနာက္ထပ္ မိနစ္ေလးဆယ္ ေလွစီးၿပီးတဲ့အခါမွာေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔အဖြဲ႕ဟာ မဂ်ီးဆိပ္လို႔ေခၚတဲ့ ရြာေလးမွာရွိတဲ့ ယူနီဆက္ဖ္က ေထာက္ပံ့ထားတဲ့ အစိုးရက်န္းမာေရးေဆးခန္းကို ေရာက္ရွိခဲ့ပါတယ္။

The local health team standing outside the health office receiving UNICEF health team in Magyi Seik village, Shan State.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Alexander Win

Reaching children in rural areas of Shan State by providing maternal and child care knowledge

By Alexander Win*

MAGYI SEIK, SHAN STATE - As a member of the team from UNICEF that travelled to Taunggyi Town in Shan State, for data collection on issues of maternal and child health in the area, my main role was to interview local health teams, mothers and children.  After an hour of driving towards Inle Lake from Taunggyi and after forty minutes of boat ride, our team finally reached a government health facility supported by UNICEF located in a village called Magyi Seik.

The local health team standing outside the health office receiving UNICEF health team in Magyi Seik village, Shan State.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Alexander Win

Friday, July 20, 2018

ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္အေရွ႕ပိုင္းတြင္ ဗဟုသုတ တိုးပြားရရိွလာျခင္းက မိခင္မ်ားအတြက္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ ေဆာင္က်ဥ္းေပး

၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ အေရွ႕ပိုင္းရိွ ဝမ္ပန္အခါ ေက်းရြာရိွ မိခင္မ်ားသည္ အာဟာရႏွင့္ မိခင္၊ ေမြးကင္းစႏွင့္ ကေလးက်န္းမာေရးဆိုင္ရာ ဝန္ေဆာင္မွဳမ်ား စတင္ရရိွခဲ႔သည္။ ယင္းအာဟာရႏွင့္ က်န္းမာေရးအစီအစဥ္မ်ားသည္ ကေလးေတြကို ၾကီးထြားဖြံ႔ျဖိဳးေစဖို႔ အေျပာင္းအလဲမ်ားကို ျဖစ္ေစျခင္းႏွင့္ မသက္သက္ေအာင္ကဲ႔သို႔ မိခင္မ်ားေပ်ာ္ရြင္ေနရသည့္ အခ်က္တစ္ခ်က္လည္း ျဖစ္သည္။

ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္အေရွ႕ပိုင္း က်ိဳင္းတံုရိွ ဝမ္ပန္အခါ ေက်းရြာ၏ ေက်းရြာအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴးအိမ္ေရွ႕တြင္ ကေလးငယ္ေလး အိသက္မြန္ႏွင့္ သူမ၏မိခင္တို႔သည္ ၾကီးထြားမွဳအေျခအေန တိုင္းတာဆန္းစစ္ရန္ ေစာင္႔ဆိုင္းေနစဥ္။ 
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet

ေရးသားသူ - ထက္ထက္ဦး

က်ိဳင္းတံု၊ ၂၀၁၈ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇူလိုင္လ - မသက္သက္ေအာင္ အခ်ိန္ျပည့္မိခင္တစ္ေယာက္မျဖစ္ခင္ သူမသည္ ေက်ာင္းဆရာမတစ္ဦး ျဖစ္ခဲ႔သည္။ “ကၽြန္မ ရဲေမတစ္ဦးျဖစ္ခ်င္ခဲ႔တာ၊ ကၽြန္မထင္တာက အဲဒီဝတ္စံုက ယံုၾကည္မွဳကို တိုးပြားေစတယ္။”ဟု မသက္သက္ေအာင္မွ ျပံဳး၍ေျပာသည္။ “ကၽြန္မမိခင္တစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္ျပီး ေနာက္မွာေတာ႔ ကၽြန္မသမီးေလးကို ေစာင္႔ေရွာက္ရတယ္၊ ကၽြန္မအေမကို အိမ္အလုပ္ေတြကူညီေပးျပီး ရပ္ရြာလူထု ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲေတြမွာ ပါဝင္ေလ႔ရိွပါတယ္။”

Access to knowledge brings hope to mothers in eastern Shan State

In 2017, mothers in the small Wan Pan Akhar village in eastern Shan State began accessing nutrtion and Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) services. These nutrtion and health programmes are now changing how children are raised and have become a reason of happiness for mothers like Ma Thet Thet Aung.

Little Ei Thet Mon and her mother wait at the growth monitoring session at their village head’s residence in Wan Pan Akhar village in Keng Tung, eastern Shan State.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet

By Htet Htet Oo

KENG TUNG, July 2018 - Before Ma Thet Thet Aung became a full-time mother, she used to work as a teacher. “But, I really wanted to become a police woman. I think the uniform exude confidence,” says Ma Thet Thet Aung with a smile. “Ever since I became a mother, I look after my daughter; help my mother with house chores and take part in our community group discussions.” 

က်န္းမာေရးအသိပညာေပး ရရိွျခင္းအားျဖင့္ ကေလးမ်ားဘဝတိုးတက္ျမင့္မားလာေစျခင္း

ေရးသားသူ - ထက္ထက္ဦး

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၊ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္တြင္ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားအား က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္ ညီညႊတ္သည့္ အစားအစာေကၽြးျခင္း အေၾကာင္းကို က်န္းမာေရး ပညာေပးသူမ်ားမွ ရိုးရွင္းစြာသရုပ္ျပ

တစ္ႏွစ္ေအာက္ကေလးႏွင့္ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားအား အစာေကၽြးျခင္းအေလ႔အထအၾကာင္းကို မိခင္မ်ားအား ရပ္ရြာလူထုအုပ္စုလုိက္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ သားဖြားဆရာမ မေအးေအးေအာင္မွ ဦးေဆာင္ေဆြးေႏြးစဥ္။
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet

က်ိဳင္းတံု၊ ၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇူလိုင္လ - ဝမ္ပန္အခါ ရြာေလးသည္ ေသးငယ္သည့္ရြာေလးတစ္ရြာျဖစ္ျပီး  ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္အေရွ႔ပိုင္း က်ိဳင္းတံုျမိဳ႕မွ တစ္ဆင့္ စိမ္းလန္းသည့္လယ္ကြင္းမ်ားကို ျဖတ္ကာ မညီညာသည့္ လမ္းမမ်ားမွ တစ္နာရီခန္႔ ကားစီးလွ်င္ ေရာက္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။ ထိုရြာတြင္ မေအးေအးေအာင္သည္ အသက္ (၁)ႏွစ္အရြယ္ သားျဖစ္သူ ေကာင္းထိုက္စံ အပါအဝင္ မိသားစုႏွင့္အတူ ေနထိုင္လွ်က္ရိွသည္။ ၂၀၁၇ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ယူနီဆက္ပံ႔ပိုးမွဳျဖင့္ က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္ အားကစားဝန္ၾကီးဌာနသည္ အာဟာရ၊  မိခင္၊ ေမြးကင္းစႏွင့္ ကေလးက်န္းမာေရးဆိုင္ရာ သင္တန္းမ်ား ပံ႔ပိုးေပးျခင္းအစီအစဥ္ကို ေစတနာ႔ဝန္ထမ္း က်န္းမာေရးလုပ္သားမ်ားအတြက္ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ အေရွ႕ပိုင္းတြင္ စတင္ခဲ႔သည္။ ယင္းသင္တန္းအခြင့္အလမ္းသည္ သူမရြာသုိ႔ ေရာက္လာသည့္အတြက္ မေအးေအးေအာင္တစ္ေယာက္ ပထမဆံုးေသာ ေစတနာ႔ဝန္ထမ္းတစ္ဦး ျဖစ္လာခဲ႔သည္။ “လြန္ခဲ႔ေသာ သံုးလခန္႔က အရန္သားဖြားဆရာမ သင္တန္းကို စာရင္းသြင္းခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ အခုေတာ႔ အဲဒီဗဟုသုတေတြကို ကၽြန္မ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္မွာရိွတဲ႔ မိခင္ေတြအတြက္ကို ျပန္လည္ေဝမွ်ဖို႔ စိတ္အားထက္သန္မဳွ အျပည့္ရိွေနပါတယ္”ဟု မေအးေအးေအာင္မွ ေျပာသည္။ 

Improving the lives of children by providing access to health education

By Htet Htet Oo

In Shan State of Myanmar, health educators demonstrate simple but healthy child feeding methods 

Ma Aye Aye Aung serves as a passionate health worker for her community, takes charge in weighing children to monitor their growth in Wan Pan (Akhar) Village in Keng Tung, Eastern Shan.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet


KENG TUNG, July 2018 - Wan Pan Akhar is a small village, an hour of bumpy ride across the green paddy fields from Keng Tung town in eastern Shan State. Here is where Ma Aye Aye Aung lives with her family including her one-year-old boy, Kaung Htike San. In 2017, UNICEF started supporting the Ministry of Health and Sports to provide trainings on nutrition and MNCH practices for volunteer health workers in eastern Shan State. When the training opportunity came to her village, Ma Aye Aye Aung was one of the first to volunteer. “I enrolled to the auxiliary midwife training three months ago. Now, I have a strong passion to give back this knowledge to mothers like me in my community,” says Ma Aye Aye Aung.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

ဓမၼတာရာသီလာစဥ္ တစ္ကိုယ္ရည္သန္႔ရွင္းေရးအတြက္ ေငြေၾကးေထာက္ပံ႔မွဳ အခက္အခဲမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေနရပ္စြန္႔ခြာထြက္ေျပး တိမ္းေရွာင္ေနရသည့္ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္အရြယ္ မိန္းကေလးငယ္မ်ား၏ ခံစားခ်က္

By Macarena Aguilar

ျပည္တြင္းေနရပ္စြန္႔ခြာထြက္ေျပးၾကသူမ်ားမွ မိန္းကေလးငယ္မ်ား ႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားအတြက္ သူတို႔၏ ဓမၼတာရာသီလာသည့္ ကာလမ်ားတြင္ ျပြတ္သိပ္ေနသည့္ စစ္ေရွာင္စခန္းမ်ား၌ မည္ကဲ႔သို႔ေနထုိင္ၾကသနည္း?

သာဂရ (သရက္ေတာ) စစ္ေရွာင္စခန္းတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ ဓမၼတာရာသီလာစဥ္ တစ္ကိုယ္ရည္သန္႔ရွင္းမွဳျပဳလုပ္ျခင္းဆိုင္ရာ အသိပညာေပးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ ေဇာ္မာလူး(၁၉) စိတ္ဝင္တစား နားေထာင္ေနစဥ္။ 
@UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet
ရွက္ကိုးရွက္ကန္းျဖင့္ “ခက္ခဲပါတယ္”ဟု အသက္ ၁၉ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ေဇာ္မာလူးမွေျပာသည္။ စစ္ေရွာင္စခန္းမ်ားတြင္ သိပ္မေျပာျဖစ္သည့္ ျပႆနာတစ္ခုျဖစ္သည္။ “အျမဲတမ္းေတာ႔ ကၽြန္မအသံုးျပဳျပီးသား လစဥ္သံုးပစၥည္းေလးေတြကို ပလပ္စတစ္အိတ္ထဲထည့္ျပီး အမိွဳက္သိမ္းကားလာယူတဲ့အထိ သိမ္းထားပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္လို႔ အမိွဳက္ကားက တစ္ပတ္မွ တစ္ခါသာလာတယ္” ဟုသူမက ျဖည့္ေျပာသည္။ 

Monday, May 28, 2018

Displaced adolescent girls bear the brunt of funding cuts for menstrual hygiene

By Macarena Aguilar

Ever wondered what it might be like for women and girls handling their period in a cramped camp for internally displaced people (IDPs)?

Zaw Mar Luu (19) listens attentively during a Menstrual Hygiene Management awareness session at the Tar Ga Ya (Thayat Taw) IDP Camp.
@UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet
“It’s difficult,” says 19-year old Zaw Mar Luu very shyly. This is an issue often not spoken about in IDP camps. “Usually I keep my used sanitary pads in a plastic bag until the garbage truck comes to collect from the main waste bin. But it only comes once a week” she adds. 


Friday, March 30, 2018

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ အာဟာရခ်ိဳ႕တဲ႔မႈကို အေျဖရွာဖို႔ လူထုအေျချပဳေစတနာ႔ဝန္ထမ္းမ်ားက ကူညီ

ေရးသားသူ - Macarena Aguilar  
ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ေမြးကင္းစႏွင့္ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားအား မိခင္ႏို႔တိုက္ေကၽြးျခင္း တိုးတက္လာေစရန္ ရည္ရြယ္လ်က္ အသက္ ၄၅ ႏွစ္ရိွ လူထုေစတနာ႔ဝန္ထမ္းျဖစ္သူ မတင္တင္ျမမွ အသိပညာေပး ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတစ္ခု ကို က်င္းပေနစဥ္။ ယင္းေဆြးေႏြးပြဲသည္ ကေလးသူငယ္ရွင္သန္ႀကီးထြားဖြံ႔ျဖိဳးေရးအစီအစဥ္၏ အစိတ္အပိုင္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္သည္။
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Htet Arkar Win

Community volunteers help tackle malnutrition in Rakhine

By Macarena Aguilar 
45-year-old community volunteer, Ma Tin Tin Mya, runs an awareness session with women and children aimed at improving infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in the northern areas of Rakhine. The session is part of a programme designed to improve survival, growth and development of children.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Htet Arkar Win

ေျမျမွဳပ္မိုင္းအမ်ားဆံုးရိွသည့္ ျပည္နယ္တြင္ မိခင္ႏွင့္ ကေလးမ်ားသည္ အသိပညာဗဟုသုတအသစ္မ်ားကို ျပန္လည္ေဝမွ်ရန္ဆႏၵျပင္းျပလ်က္ရွိ

ေရးသားသူ - Macarena Aguilar

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ရိွ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားႏွင့္ ကေလးမ်ားသည္ မိုင္းအႏၲရာယ္ဆိုင္ရာအသိပညာေပးသင္တန္းမ်ားမွတစ္ဆင့္ ေျမျမွဳပ္မိုင္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ေပါက္ကြဲေစႏိုင္သည့္ စစ္လက္နက္ အၾကြင္းအက်န္မ်ား အေၾကာင္းေလ႔လာသင္ယူၾကျပီး အမ်ားစုက သူတို႔သင္ယူခဲ႔ရသည့္ အသိပညာဗဟုသုတအသစ္မ်ားကို သူတို႔၏ မိသားစုမ်ား၊ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ်ား ႏွင့္ သူတို႔ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ရိွ အျခားသူမ်ားအား ျပန္လည္မွ်ေဝေပးဖို႔ ဆႏၵျပင္းျပလွ်က္ရိွၾကသည္။ သူတို႔၏သက္ေသခံခ်က္အခ်ိဳ႕ကိုဖတ္ရွဳပါရန္….

ဆိုင္းႏူ (၁၃) သည္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္၊ ဝိုင္းေမာ္ျမိဳ႕ရိွ မိုင္းနားစစ္ေဘးေရွာင္စခန္းတြင္ ယူနီဆက္ ႏွင့္ DRC/DDG အဖြဲ႔တို႔မွ ပံ႔ပိုးျပဳလုပ္ေပးသည့္ မိုင္းအႏၲရာယ္ဆိုင္ရာ အသိပညာ ေပး ျခင္း သင္တန္းတြင္ ေျမျမွဳပ္မိုင္းအႏၲရာယ္ဆိုင္ရာကာတြန္းစာအုပ္ကို စိတ္ပါဝင္စားစြာဖတ္ရွဳေနစဥ္။
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet

Armed with new knowledge, children and mothers in most landmine-contaminated State are eager to teach others

By Macarena Aguilar

As children and women in Kachin learn about the dangers of landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) through Mine Risk Education (MRE) sessions, many are eager to share their new knowledge with their family, friends and others in their community. Read some of their testimonies.

Sai Nuu (13) intently reads a cartoon book about landmine safety following the UNICEF and DRC/DDG -supported Mine Risk Education awareness session held at the Maina RC IDP Camp in Waing Maw Township, Kachin.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2018/Nyan Zay Htet

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ ေက်းရြာေနျပည္သူမ်ား၏ ဘဝကို ပိုမိုေျဖာင့္ျဖဴးေစသည့္ ေရပိုက္လိုင္းစနစ္

ေရးသားသူ - ခင္မာ၀င္း

ကရင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ပ်ဥ္ကတိုးကုန္းေက်းရြာမွာ ေနထိုင္တဲ့သူေတြဟာ ေရရရွိဖို႔အတြက္ ၄ကီလိုမီတာ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ခဲ့ရတယ္ဆိုတာ သူတို႔အတြက္ အမွတ္ရစရာတခု အျဖစ္ရွိေနေတာ့မွာပါ … 

ေက်းရြာေနျပည္သူေတြဟာ ေရရရွိဖို႔အတြက္ အိမ္မွ ဒံုတမိျမစ္ကို နာရီေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ အခ်ိန္ကုန္ခံျပီး ၾကိဳးစားပမ္းစား သယ္ယူခဲ့ၾကရပါတယ္။ ရြာမွာ ေရအဆင္သင့္ မရႏိုင္တဲ့အတြက္ အျပင္မွာ မစင္စြန္႔တဲ့ အေလ့အထတခုက လူထုေတြအၾကား နိစၥဓူဝ အလုပ္တခု ျဖစ္လာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီအေျခအေနေတြက ထိခ္ိုက္လြယ္တဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသမီးေတြနဲ႔ ကေလးငယ္ေတြအတြက္ အႏၱရာယ္က်ေရာက္ႏိုင္ေျခမ်ားပါတယ္။ ေက်းရြာ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴးမွလည္း “ေရမရွိလို႔ အိမ္သာမရွိ” တာမဆန္းပါဘူးလို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။ 

Daw Htwe Yee, her daughter and grandchild are delighted that they now have a water supply at their home.
©NICF Myanmar/2018/ Khin Mar Win

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Water on tap makes life flow better in Kayin village

By Khin Mar Win

For as long back as people can remember, the four-kilometer walk to the nearest water supply had a big effect on the life of residents of Pyin Kadoe Kone village in Myanmar’s Kayin State. 

As well as forcing villagers to undertake long hours of hard work carrying water home from the Don Ta Mi river, the lack of a ready water supply meant that open defecation was common around the village, making children and women more vulnerable, especially at night. ‘‘No water = no latrines,” said the village head. 

Daw Htwe Yee, her daughter and grandchild are delighted that they now have a water supply at their home.
©NICF Myanmar/2018/ Khin Mar Win

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

အတူလက္တဲြလ်က္ ခရီးဆက္မယ့္ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္မ်ား

ေရးသားသူ - ယုယုေအာင္

“သမီးတို႔ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္ေတြ လူမႈေရးအလုပ္ေတြကို အတူတူလုပ္ရတာ တကယ္သေဘာက်ပါတယ္၊ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အဖြဲ႔ဖြဲ႔တာပါ။”

ဒါကေတာ့ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္၊ ေတာင္ၾကီးျမိဳ႕က အသစ္ဖြဲ႔စည္းလိုက္တဲ့ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္အဖြဲ႔က လူငယ္တစ္ေယာက္ရဲ႕ စကားသံျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္က ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံရဲ႕ အႀကီးဆံုးျပည္နယ္ျဖစ္ျပီး ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္ အရြယ္လူငယ္ ၁.၂သန္း ေနထိုင္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံမွာရွိတဲ့ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္စုစုေပါင္းရဲ႕ ၁၂ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ယူနီဆက္က ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္မ်ား ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ေရးအစီအစဥ္ကို ပီယာဆန္(Pearson)ရဲ႕ ေငြေၾကး အေထာက္အပံ့နဲ႔ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနပါတယ္။ UPSHIFTလို႔နာမည္ေပထားတဲ့ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္မ်ား ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ေရးအစီအစဥ္မွာ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္လူငယ္ေတြကို အုပ္စုဖြဲ႔ၿပီး သင္တန္းေတြေပးပါတယ္။ ၂၁ရာစုမွာ ေအာင္ျမင္တဲ့သူမ်ားျဖစ္လာေစရန္ လိုအပ္တဲ့ အရည္အခ်င္းေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ထိေရာက္စြာ ေျပာဆိုဆက္ဆံျခင္း၊ အမ်ားႏွင့္ပူးေပါင္း လုပ္ေဆာင္ျခင္းနွင့္ အဖြဲ႔လိုက္လုပ္ေဆာင္ျခင္း၊ ျပသနာကို ေျဖရွင္းျခင္း၊ ဆန္းသစ္တီထြင္ျခင္းစတဲ့ ဘ၀အရည္အခ်င္းေတြကို  ေလ့က်င့္ေပးပါတယ္။

Moving forward together: Starting an adolescent-led organization in Shan State

By Yu Yu Aung

“We really enjoy doing social activities together, so we wanted to form a group.’’

That’s the view from a young person in Shan State in  eastern Myanmar who is part of a brand new civil society organization setting out to address different challenges facing local youth. 


Shan State is the country’s largest state and is home to around 1.2 million adolescents, or 12 percent of the total national adolescent population.  

UNICEF started working on adolescent engagement activities in the state in 2017, with the support of Pearson. Under the UPSHIFT program, adolescents were mobilized into groups and provided with trainings to equip them with 21st century skills such as communication, collaboration and team work, problem solving and creativity. 

ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္အရြယ္မွာ သင္တန္းနည္းျပလုပ္နုိင္ဖို႔က ထင္တာထက္ပိုခက္ပါတယ္

ေရးသားသူ - ယုယုေအာင္

ေမာင္ခြန္ဟိန္တက္စိုးက အသက္ ၁၇နွစ္ ရွိပါၿပီ။ အနာဂါတ္အတြက္ ဘာလုပ္ခ်င္လဲ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာသူမသိပါ။  စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္ တစ္ေယာက္ ျဖစ္ေအာင္လုပ္ရမလား၊ နည္းပညာနဲ႔ အသက္ေမြးတဲ့ ပညာရွင္တစ္ေယာက္ဆို ေကာင္းမလား၊ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ တျခား တစ္ခုခု .. ဘာလုပ္ရင္ေကာင္းမလဲ။ 


တကၠသိုလ္၀င္တန္းေအာင္ၿပီးေတာ့ အနာဂါတ္အတြက္လိုအပ္မယ့္ ပညာေတြကို သင္ဖို႔ ေက်ာင္းေတြကို စံုးစမ္းၾကည့္ပါေသးတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ သင့္ေတာ္တာကို မေတြ႔ခဲ့ပါဘူး။ အျပင္ပုုဂၢလိက ေက်ာင္းေတြက ေစ်းၾကီးျပီး ေပးတဲ့ေငြနဲ႔တန္တဲ့ အသိပညာ၊ အတတ္ပညာကို ျပန္မရဘူးလို႔ သူထင္ပါတယ္။ အေ၀းသင္တက္တာလည္း ေကာင္းလွခ်ည္ရဲ႕မဟုတ္ပါ။

Harder than it looks: Becoming an adolescent learning facilitator

By Yu Yu Aung

At age 17, high school graduate Khum Hein Tet Soe couldn’t decide what future to pursue. Should he try to be a business man, or an information technology specialist, or something completely different?


He checked out private schools that might teach him useful skills, but he couldn’t find the right one. The schools were expensive, and the quality of teaching didn’t seem to match the cost. Distance education college wasn’t a solution either.

ေရွ႕ေဆာင္လမ္းျပၾကသူမ်ား - ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္မ်ား ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ အရက္၊ မူးယစ္ေဆးပညာေပး ရက္သတၲပတ္

ရးသားသူ - ယုယုေအာင္

တိုေတာင္းတဲ့ အခ်ိန္တစ္ပတ္အတြင္းမွာ ဘာေတြျဖစ္ေအာင္လုပ္နုိင္မလဲ။ ၂၀၁၈ခုနွစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီလမွာ အရက္၊ မူးယစ္ေဆးပညာေပး ရက္သတၱပတ္ကမ္ပိန္းကို ေအာင္ျမင္ေအာင္လုပ္နုိင္ခဲ့တဲ့ လူငယ္ေတြအတြက္ေတာ့့  တစ္ပတ္ဆုုိတဲ့ အခ်ိန္အတြင္းမွာ အမ်ားႀကီးလုပ္ေဆာင္နုိင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ယူနီဆက္က ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္မ်ား ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ေရးအစီအစဥ္ကို ပီယာဆန္(Pearson)ရဲ႕ ေငြေၾကး အေထာက္အပံ့နဲ႔ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနပါတယ္။ ဒီအစီအစဥ္မွာ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္လူငယ္ေတြက ယခုလို အထင္ကရရွိတဲ့ မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးသံုးစြဲမႈကာကြယ္ေရးကမ္ပိန္းကို ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံက ၿမိဳ႕ႀကီး၄ၿမိဳ႕ျဖစ္တဲ့ ရနု္ကုန္၊ မႏၱေလး၊ ေတာင္ႀကီးနဲ႔ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ  တၿပိဳင္တည္းျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။   UPSHIFT လို႔ နာမည္ေပးထားတဲ့ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္မ်ား ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ေရး အစီအစဥ္မွာ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္လူငယ္ေတြက ထိေရာက္စြာ ေျပာဆို ဆက္ဆံျခင္း၊ အမ်ားနွင့္ ပူေပါင္းလုပ္ေဆာင္ျခင္းနွင့္ အဖြဲ႔လိုက္လုပ္ေဆာင္ျခင္း၊ ျပသနာကို ေျဖရွင္းျခင္း၊ ဆန္းသစ္တီထြင္ျခင္းစသည့္ ၂၁ရာစုုမွာ ေအာင္ျမင္တဲ့ သူေတြျဖစ္လာေစရန္ လိုအပ္တဲ့ အရည္အခ်င္းေတြကို ေလ့က်င့္ေပးပါတယ္။

Showing the way: Adolescents lead campaign to prevent drug use in Myanmar

By Yu Yu Aung 

What can you achieve in one short week? Plenty, according to young people who ran a large drug use prevention campaign among their peers in Myanmar during early January, 2018.

The landmark campaign held in the country’s four biggest cities took place under an adolescent engagement program being implemented by UNICEF in Myanmar, with the support of Pearson. The UPSHIFT program supports adolescents to become social innovators in their communities, through trainings in 21st century skills such as communication, collaboration and team work, problem solving and creativity. 

Friday, February 16, 2018

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ သန္႔ရွင္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားတိုးတက္ဖို႔ ေဒသခံျပည္သူလူထုဦးေဆာင္

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္သည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ဆင္းရဲႏြမ္းပါးသည့္ ေဒသတစ္ခု ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္ ညီညြတ္သည့္ အိမ္သာသံုးစြဲႏိုင္မွဳသည္ စုစုေပါင္းလူဦးေရ၏ ထက္ဝက္ ၄၈%သာလွ်င္ရိွၿပီး ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ အနိမ္႔ဆံုး မ်ားမွ တစ္ခုအပါအဝင္ျဖစ္ျပီး ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ေနထိုင္သည့္လူဦးေရ၏ ၅၈%သာလွ်င္ သန္႔ရွင္းသည့္ ေသာက္သံုးေရကို သံုးစြဲႏိုင္ပါသည္။ ယင္းအေျခအေနကို ေျပာင္းလဲႏိုင္ဖို႔ ယူနီဆက္သည္ ေဒသဆိုင္ရာ အစုိုးရ အဖဲြ႔ႏွင့္အတူ ျမန္မာႏို္င္ငံ ၾကက္ေျခနီအသင္းတို႔ႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းလွ်က္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ၃ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္ ညီညြတ္သည့္ အိမ္သာတည္ေဆာက္ျခင္းလုပ္ငန္းကို ေဒသခံလူထုဦးေဆာင္ႏိုင္ရန္ ကူညီပံ႔ပိုးေပးျခင္းကို ေဆာင္ရြက္လွ်က္ ရွိပါသည္။

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ေျမာက္ဦးျမိဳ႕တြင္ အသစ္တည္ေဆာက္ျပီးစီးသည့္ ေရအိမ္သာအား ေနာက္ခံထားျပီး ေဒၚဦးခိုင္ မွတ္တမ္း ဓါတ္ပံုရိုက္စဥ္။ 
©UNICEF Myanmar/2017/Moe Thu

Friday, January 26, 2018

Community members take the lead to improve sanitation in Rakhine

Rakhine State is one of the poorest and most isolated parts of Myanmar. Less than half (48 per cent) of the people have access to a hygienic toilet – one of the lowest levels in Myanmar; while only 58 per cent of people living in the State have access to safe drinking water. To help change this situation, UNICEF is working with the local government and the Myanmar Red Cross Society to encourage communities to take the lead in building sanitary latrines in three Townships. 

Daw Oo Khaing stands in front of her new latrine in Mrauk-U Township, Rakhine, Myanmar.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2017/Moe Thu

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ က်င္နီျပင္စခန္းရိွ အမ်ားသံုးေရဘံုဘိုင္မ်ားသည္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားအတြက္ ေရႏွင့္ပက္သက္သည့္ ဝန္ထုတ္ဝန္ပိုးမ်ားကို အဆံုးသတ္ေစခဲ့

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၊ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ၂၀၁၂ခုႏွစ္က ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ႔သည့္ ဘာသာေရးပဋိပကၡေၾကာင္႔ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ရိွ မြတ္ဆလင္လူမႈအသိုက္အဝန္းမွ လူေပါင္း ၁၂၉၀၀၀ခန္႔ ေနအိမ္စြန္႔ခြာ ထြက္ေျပးခဲ႔ၾကပါသည္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ေသာျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားတြင္ တစ္ရြာလံုးကို ျပည္တြင္းေရႊ႔ေျပာင္း ေနထိုင္သူမ်ားအျဖစ္  ျပႊတ္ၾကပ္ေနသည့္ စခန္းမ်ားသို႔ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ေနရာခ်ထားခဲ႔ပါသည္။ ေပါက္ေတာျမိဳ႕နယ္ရိွ စူလီဖရန္ ေက်းရြာသည္ တစ္ခုအပါအဝင္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ရိွ က်င္နီျပင္ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းရိွ ေရဘံုဘိုင္မ်ားမွ တစ္ခုတြင္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးႏွင့္ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားေရခပ္ယူေနၾကပံု။
©UNICEF Myanmar/2017/Kris Cahyanto

Community taps wash away women’s water burdens in Rakhine’s Kyin Ni Pyin camp

In 2012 inter-communal and inter-religious conflict between majority Buddhist and minority Muslim communities forced some 129,000 people from Muslim communities to flee their homes in Rakhine State, Myanmar. In some cases entire villages were relocated to congested camps for Internally Displaced People (IDPs). Su Li Pha Ran, located in Pauktaw Township, is one of them. 

Women and children fetch water at one of the tap stands in Kyin Ni Pyin IDP camp in Rakhine, Myanmar.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2017/Kris Cahyanto

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

ေတာက္ပတဲ႔အနာဂတ္ဆီသို႔- ရခုိုင္ျပည္နယ္ရိွ ကေလးမ်ားအားလံုးအတြက္ အရည္အေသြးရိွ ပညာေရး သင္ယူႏိုင္ရန္ ေသခ်ာေစဖို႔

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ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အေနာက္ပိုင္းေဒသသည္ ဆင္းရဲႏြမ္းပါးဆံုးေဒသတစ္ခုျဖစ္ျပီး အထီးက်န္တည္ရိွေနသည့္ ေနရာတစ္ခုလည္းျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ တစ္ခါတစ္ရံ ကေလးမ်ား၏ ပညာေရးကို ထိခိုက္ေစပါသည္။ မိသားစုမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ သူတို႔၏ ကေလးမ်ားကို ေက်ာင္းပို႔ရန္ ကုန္က်စရိတ္အတြက္   ၾကိဳးပမ္းၾကရသည္။ ထို႔အတြက္ေၾကာင္႔ ေက်ာင္းထြက္ႏွဳန္းအလြန္ျမင္႔မားပါသည္။ အလားတူ ေက်ာင္းသံုးပစၥည္းမ်ား လံုေလာက္မွဳမရိွျခင္းႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္တစ္လႊား အရည္အခ်င္းျပည့္စံုသည့္ ဆရာ၊ဆရာမမ်ား ေလ်ာ႔နည္းလာျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ၃၀%ေသာ ကေလးမ်ားသည္ မူလတန္းေက်ာင္းမ်ားတြင္ ေက်ာင္းအပ္ႏွံမွဳ မလုပ္ၾကသည့္အတြက္ အဆင့္ျမင့္ပညာသင္ယူႏိုင္သည့္  နည္းလမ္းမ်ားသည္ စိုးရိိမ္ဖြယ္ရာေကာင္းေအာင္ကို နည္းပါးလာေနပါသည္။

မၾကာခဏျဖစ္ပြားေနသည့္ သဘာဝေဘးအႏၲရာယ္မ်ားႏွင့္ လူ႔အသိုက္အဝန္းႏွစ္ခုၾကား အဖန္တစ္လဲလဲ ျဖစ္ပြားေနသည့္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မွဳမ်ားႏွင့္ ပဋိပကၡမ်ားသည္လည္း ပညာေရးကို ထိခိုက္ပ်က္စီးေစပါသည္။ ဆိုလိုသည္မွာ ၂၀၁၄ခုႏွစ္ သန္းေခါင္းစာရင္းအရ ယေန႔အခ်ိန္အခါ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ စာမတတ္သည့္ လူဦးေရႏွဳန္းသည္ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပ်မ္းမွ်ႏွဳန္းထက္ ၅၀% ျမင့္မားေနသည္ကို ဆိုလိုပါသည္။ 

Friday, January 12, 2018

Towards a brighter future: Securing access to quality education for all children in Rakhine

By Shima Islam, Communications Specialist, EAPRO

Myanmar’s western Rakhine State is one of the poorest and most isolated parts of Myanmar, and often it is children’s education that suffers. Many families struggle to cover the costs of sending their children to school, resulting in soaring dropout rates. Meanwhile, a shortage of adequate school facilities and qualified teachers across the State means that almost 30% of children are not enrolled in primary school and options for higher education are worryingly scarce. 

Recurrent natural disasters and repeated episodes of intercommunal violence and conflict regularly disrupt education. This means that today adult illiteracy rates in Rakhine are 50% higher than the national average, according to the 2014 Census.