မီးဖိုချောင်မှသည် စာသင်ခန်းဆီသို့

ရေးသူ Ruth Ayisi

၁၄ နှစ်သမီးလေး ခင်ခင်လှတစ်ယောက် ကောက်ညှင်းပေါင်းပေါင်းနေတဲ့အချိန်။ သူ့ရဲ့နေ့စဉ်လုပ်ရိုးလုပ်စဉ် အလုပ်တွေ ရုတ်တရက်ပြောင်းလဲသွားတော့မယ့်အချိန်ပေါ့။ “အမေက ကျွန်မကို ကျောင်းတက်ချင်လားလို့မေးတယ်” လို့ အဲဒီအချိန်ကိုပြန်စဉ်းစားမိပြီး မျက်လုံးဝိုင်းကြီးတွေနဲ့ ခင်ခင်လှတစ်ယောက် ပြုံးပြီးပြောပြပါတယ်။

©UNICEF Myanmar/2019/Ruth Ayisi

လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ နှစ်နှစ် သူ့အသက် ၁၂ နှစ်မှာ ခင်ခင်လှအတွက် ဘဝမှာ ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ်အဖြစ် စာသင်ဖို့အခွင့်အရေးတစ်ခုရခဲ့ပါတယ်။ “ကျွန်မကျောင်းတက်လို့ရမလားလို့ အမေ့ကိုမေးနေခဲ့တာ ကြာပါပြီ” လို့ခင်ခင်လှက ပြောပါတယ်။ သူက သူ့အခြေအနေကြောင့် စာဖတ်တတ်ဖို့ စာရေးတတ်ဖို့ မျှော်လင့်ချက်ကို လက်လျှော့လုနီးပါးဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်လို့ ဆိုတယ်။ “ကျွန်မစာသင်ချင်ခဲ့တယ်။ ဒါပေမဲ့ အမေဈေးရောင်းဖို့အတွက် ကောက်ညှင်းပေါင်းကူပေါင်းပေးမှဖြစ်မယ်ဆိုတာ ကျွန်မသိတယ်။” 

Non-Formal Education: the only ‘second chance’ for many working children

By Macarena Aguilar

Myanmar’s 2014 census found that 20 percent of the country’s school age children are out of school, with Kayin and other conflict affected States topping the list. 

Many of these children choose to work. Others are driven by poverty to help their families make ends meet. Too many end up in hazardous work settings. Today, child labour is widespread across Myanmar with some 1.2 million children aged 5-17 currently working.

Thirteen year old Arkar Soe is one them. 

©UNICEF Myanmar/2017/Khine Zar Mon

ေက်ာင္းမေနႏိုင္သည့္ ကေလးသူငယ္မ်ား၏ ဘဝမ်ား - တစ္မိနစ္စာ

ေရးသားသူ Jessica Aumann



©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Jessica Aumann

အသက္ (၁၂)ႏွစ္ရွိၿပီျဖစ္တဲ့ ခင္စႏၵာဝင္း တစ္ေယာက္ သူမရဲ႕ ဇာတ္လမ္းေလးကို ဘာသာျပန္ ေျပာေပးမယ့္သူအလာကို ပလတ္စတစ္ထိုင္ခံု ပန္းေရာင္ေပၚတြင္ ျပံဳးကာ စိတ္ရွည္လက္ရွည္ ထိုင္ေစာင့္ ေနေတာ့သည္။

”ဆိုင္ကလုန္းမုန္တိုင္း တိုက္ေတာ့ အကုန္ပ်က္စီးသြားတယ္” ဟု သူမက ေျပာသည္။ ”သမီးတို႔ အိမ္ပါ ပါသြားတယ္။”

”မုန္တိုင္းတိုက္ျပီး ေနာက္ပိုင္း ေဖေဖနဲ႕ေမေမ ဧရာဝတီကေန ရန္ကုန္ကို ေျပာင္းသြားတယ္။ သမီးတို႔ ကေလးေတြ အားလံုးကေတာ့ အဖိုးနဲ႔ က်န္ေနခဲ့တယ္။ ေမေမနဲ႔ ေဝးေနရတာကို အရမ္းဝမ္းနည္းၿပီး ဖုန္းေျပာတိုင္း တအား ငိုမိတယ္” ဟု သူမက ေျပာသည္။

The lives of out of school children in one minute

By Jessica Aumann

 

©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Jessica Aumann

Khin Sander Win is 12 years old. She sits patiently on the pink plastic bench, smiling and waiting for the interpreter to come and help her tell her story.

“When the cyclone came it took everything” she says. “We lost our house”.

“After the storm my mother and father moved from Ayeyarwaddy to Yangon, and we children all stayed behind with my grandfather. I used to talk to my mother on the phone and I would feel so sad to be apart from her, I would cry a lot” she says.

ကေလးလုပ္သား ပေပ်ာက္ဖို႔ ပညာေရးကို အားေပးစို႔

ေရးသူ-ဂ်က္စီကာ၊ ေအာ္မန္း



©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Khine Zar Mon
ေက်ာင္းျပင္ပ ပညာေရးစာသင္ခန္းမွ ေ၀ၿဖိဳးသူ

ယခုႏွစ္ ကမၻာလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ကေလးအလုပ္သမား ဆန္႔က်င္ေရးေန႔၏ သေဘာထားအဆိုအမိန္႔မွာ “ကေလးလုပ္သားပေပ်ာက္ဖို႔ ပညာေရးကိုအားေပးစို႔” ျဖစ္သည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရိွ ကေလးမ်ားအားလံုး အတြက္ အခမဲ့၊ မသင္ မေနရႏွင့္ အရည္အေသြးမွီပညာေရး ရရိွေစရန္ ယခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ကၽြႏ္ုပ္တို႔ ေဆာ္ၾသ ေနၾကသည္။

No to Child Labour - Yes to Quality Education

The theme for 2015 World Day Against Child Labour is No to Child Labour - Yes to Quality Education. This year we are calling for free, compulsory and quality education for all children in Myanmar.

Many child labourers don't attend school regularly or at all. Free and compulsory education of good quality is key to ending child labour by giving children the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills. To find out more, read Wei Phyoe’s story below.

You can also download a flyer, notebook, and poster with drawings by children taking part in Non-Formal Primary Education (NFPE), supported by the Quality Basic Education Programme. The drawings were created as part of a workshop on child labour run by UNICEF, the Myanmar Literacy Resource Centre (MLRC) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Wei Phyoe’s Story

©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Khine Zar Mon
Wei Phyoe Thu at his NFPE class

Give me a second chance for education!

Tomorrow, 12 June, is World Day Against Child Labour. The theme for 2015 is No to Child Labour - Yes to Quality Education. To mark the day this is the first of two blogs on non-formal education in Myanmar...

Anne-Cecile with students from an EXCEL centre in Tayetchaung Township, Tanintharyi Region

The moment I enter the room I feel a stream of energy invading me. It must have been the frank smiles and energetic greetings of the 36 students I met! These students are all visibly different ages and from first sight their learning environment appeared so different from a traditional classroom with so many conventions floating in the air.

Children Catch-Up with their Education Rights

By Anne-Cecile Vialle and U Thet Naing, UNICEF Field Office for the South-East of Myanmar.

Khaing Khiang Hnin with her teacher Nyein Nyein Khaing (left) and Regional NFPE Monitor Than Nyunt (right)

Dawei Township, Tanintharyi Region, March 2015: Khaing Khaing Hnin, 16 years old, had to leave the regular primary school she attended in Saw Wa village seven years ago when she was just in Grade 3. “My mother has psychological health problems and my parents divorced. Then my father migrated to Thailand”, said Khaing Khaing Hnin. In fact, in Dawei, migration for work and child labour are common, and dozens of students drop out of primary school each year.

Non-Formal Education gives Children with Disabilities a chance to go to school

By U Kap Za Lyan, Education Field Officer, Hakha Field Office

Pyae Pyae Cho writes with her left foot as her elder sister watches

Ma Pyae Pyae Cho (aged 11) and Ma Cho Mar Oo (aged 13) are sisters and both attend a Non-Formal Primary Education class in Set Ywar village, Sagaing Division.

Like many families, Pyae Pyae Cho and Cho Mar Oo’s parents struggle to make a living doing odd jobs. "Their parents are very poor and sometimes have to go outside of the village to find work. They often cannot provide nutritious food for the children to eat", said FPE Regional Monitor, U Tin Ngwe. For this reason, the two sisters could not learn well at regular primary school.

Non-Formal Primary Education (NFPE) enables marginalised children who have dropped out of school, or who never had the chance to attend primary school, to realise their human right to education. 

UNICEF supported Non-Formal Primary Education (NFPE) offers second chance education for out-of-school children in Mon State

© UNICEF Myamar/2013/Myo Thame
Thar Thar Aung in the NFPE class in NO (2) Basic Primary School, Kyauktan Ward in Mawlamyaing

 

By Ye Lwin

 

Mawlamyaing, Mon State, Myanmar, 29 July 2013:  Thar Thar Aung 13, is happy to have his dream come true.  As a school drop-out he had little hope for a second chance until he got back on track with his primary education through Non Formal Primary Education (NFPE) programme.