ယူနီဆက္ႏွင့္ ကၽြန္မ၏အလုပ္သင္ဘ၀

၂၀၁၆ နို၀င္ဘာ (ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္)၊ ကၽြန္မနာမည္ ဆုလဲ့နႏၵာဦးပါ။ ကၽြန္မက ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္တကၠသိုလ္က ေက်ာင္းသူတစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခုဆိုရင္ UNICEF ေမာ္လျမိဳင္အေျခစိုက္ရုံးမွာ ၃လတာ အလုပ္သင္အျဖစ္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ျခင္းခံခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ UNICEF မွာ အလုပ္လုပ္ခြင့္ရလိမ့္မယ္လို့ စိတ္ကူးေတာင္ မယဥ္ခဲ့ဖူးဘူး။ အခု ကၽြန္မ UNICEF မွာ ၃ပတ္ပဲလုပ္ရေသးေပမယ့္ ကၽြန္မရခဲ့တဲ့ အေတြ.အၾကံဳက အဖိုးတန္လွပါတယ္။

My internship with UNICEF in the Southeast

By Hsu Lei Nandar Oo

Mawlamyine, November 2016 - My name is Hsu Lei Nandar Oo and I am a student at Mawlamyine University. This year, I have been selected for an internship with UNICEF Mawlamyine Field Office for 3 months. I have never dreamed of working for this organisation. Although I have just started, the experience and things I already learned are extremely valuable.

New Policy To Help Children Learn In Their Mother Tongue

21 February is International Mother Language Day, which celebrates language diversity and variety around the world. 




School Children in Southeast Myanmar © Anne Cecile Vialle, UNICEF

With 111 living languages, Myanmar is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world. The seven main ethnic language clusters (Chin, Kachin, Kayah, Kayin, Mon, Rakhine and Shan) are spoken by more than 23 million people and around 32 million people speak the national language, Myanmar.

For children who speak ethnic languages, Mother Tongue Based-Multi-Lingual Education (MTB-MLE), particularly in the early grades, is critical for increasing equitable access to school, improving cognitive development and learning outcomes, and reducing repetition and dropout rates. In Myanmar’s ethnically diverse society, language is also closely connected with identity, culture, and belonging.

Language and Education: A Force for Peace

"Education can be a force for preventing conflict, reconstructing countries after conflict, and building peace". Jose Ramos-Horta (Timor Leste), Nobel Peace Prize, 1996.

©UNICEF Myanmar/2013/ Jim Holmes

For children who speak minority languages, mother-tongue based education, particularly in the early grades, is critical for improving attendance in school as well as learning outcomes. Whether or not children are taught in their mother-tongue is closely linked with opportunities for social, citizenship and economic advancement.