ရန်ကုန်မြို့ပြရှိ ပြင်းထန်အာဟာရချို့တဲ့ဝေဒနာခံစားနေရတဲ့ ကလေးငယ်များဆီရောက်ရှိနိုင်မယ့် အခွင့်အရေးတစ်ခု

ရေးသားသူ - နေထွန်းကျော်နှင့် Elin Nilsson ၊ ယူနီဆက် ကျန်းမာရေးနှင့်အာဟာရကဏ္ဍ၊ မြန်မာ

UNICEF Myanmar/2019/Nyan Zay Htet

ပေါင်မပြည့်ဘဲမွေးဖွားလာခဲ့တဲ့ ခန့်သူကျော်လေးဟာ မကြာခဏဖျားလိုက်၊ ဝမ်းသွားလိုက်၊ အန်လိုက်ဖြစ်တတ်တဲ့ ချူချာတဲ့ ကလေးငယ်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ မိဘတွေဖြစ်တဲ့ ဒေါ်မြတ်သူဇာနဲ့ ဦးနိုင်ရဲဦးတို့ဟာ သူ့ရဲ့ရောဂါအမျိုးမျိုးအတွက် ဒေသန္တရ ကျန်းမာရေးဌာနကို မကြာခဏသွားပြရလေ့ရှိပါတယ်။

ရန်ကုန်မြို့ လှိုင်သာယာမြို့နယ်က အခြေခံကျန်းမာရေးဌာနမှာ အလုပ်လုပ်နေတဲ့ သားဖွားဆရာမ ဒေါ်မိမိထွေးက ခန့်သူကျော်နဲ့သူ့မိဘတွေကို အဲဒီအချိန်တုန်းက ကူညီပေးခဲ့သူဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ “ကျွန်မ ခန့်သူကျော်ကို ပထမဆုံးစတွေ့တဲ့အချိန်မှာ ကလေးက တော်တော်လေးပိန်တယ်။ အမြဲဖျားတယ်။ ဝမ်းသွားပြီးအန်တယ်။ နောက်ဆုံး သူကဆိုးဆိုးရွားရွားကို အားနည်းလာခဲ့တယ်” လို့ သားဖွားဆရာမက ရှင်းပြခဲ့တယ်။ “သူနဲ့ရွယ်တူကလေးတွေနဲ့စာရင် သူ့ရဲ့ကြွက်သားဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုက နှေးနေခဲ့တယ်” လို့လည်း ဖြည့်စွက်ပြောပြပါတယ်။ အသက် ၃၂ နှစ်အရွယ်မိခင်ဖြစ်သူ ဒေါ်မြတ်သူဇာက သားကိုအတတ်နိုင်ဆုံး ပြုစုစောင့်ရှောက်ခဲ့ပေမဲ့လည်း ခန့်သူကျော် ကိုးလသားအရွယ်မှာတော့ ပြင်းထန်အာဟာရချို့တဲ့ရောဂါ (SAM) ခံစားနေရတာကို သိရှိလာခဲ့ပါတယ်။ 

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

My commitment to help children in hard to reach areas (Naga Self-Administrative Region)

By Nay Myo Thu, Health Officer, UNICEF Myanmar 

I was part of the seven-member response team that travel to Lahe Township, in Naga Self-administrative Region, after a measles outbreak was confirmed. We took a flight from Mandalay to Khamti, a remote town in Sagaing Region. Then, we crossed Chindwin river by a small boat to reach Sin Thay village. From there,  we took a jeep to go the capital of Naga, Lahe. Fortunately,  the road was dry and we were able to reach our destination in 6 hours. When it rains, landslides are very common, blocking roads and making the journey much longer. Although the road is rough, bummpy and in some parts  very muddy,  we enjoyed the drive over the Naga hills, including the highest one - Htein Nyo mountain, which is over 5,000 ft high.

အမွန္တကယ္ျဖစ္လာေသာ ကေလးဘဝအိပ္မက္တစ္ခု

မာရီရာနာပါလက္ဗရာ ေရးသားသည္

ဟားခါး၊ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္၊ ဇြန္လ ၂၀၁၆ - ငြန္လိုင္ဇင္မွာ အဆုတ္ေရာင္ေရာဂါ ျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ သားဖြား ဆရာမ တစ္ဦးက ကုသေပးစဥ္က ၎၏အသက္ ၄ႏွစ္သာ ရွိေသးသည္။ ယင္းျဖစ္ရပ္က ၎၏ဘဝကို ေျပာင္းလဲေစခဲ့သည္။ ယင္းအခ်ိန္္မွစ၍ တစ္ေန႔က်လွ်င္ သားဖြားဆရာမတစ္ဦး ျဖစ္ရမည္ဟု အိပ္မက္ မက္ခဲ့သည္။ “သားဖြားဆရာမေတြရဲ႕ ဝတ္စံုနဲ႔ လူေတြကို ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ရတဲ့ သူတုိ႔တာဝန္ကို အထင္ႀကီး အားက်မိခဲ့တာ” ဟု ယခု အသက္ ၃၄ ႏွစ္ ရွိၿပီျဖစ္သည့္ ငြန္လိုင္ဇင္က ေျပာသည္။

©UNICEF Myanmar/2016/Mariana Palavra
Ngun Hlei Zing stands in front of Lok Lung sub-rural health centre

A childhood dream come true

By Mariana Palavra

Hakka, Chin State, June 2016 - Ngun Hlei Zing was four years old when she got pneumonia and was treated by a midwife. This changed her life. From then on, she dreamt of one day becoming a midwife.  “I was impressed by the midwives uniforms and their mission to take care of others”, recalls Ngun Hlei Zing, now 34 years old. 

©UNICEF Myanmar/2016/Mariana Palavra
Ngun Hlei Zing stands in front of Lok Lung sub-rural health centre

အမ်ဳိးသား ပိုလီယိုေဆးတုိက္ေကၽြးေရးအစီအစဥ္ - ဓာတ္ပံုစုစည္းတင္ျပမႈ

ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလ ၂၀ ရက္မွ ၂၂ ရက္အထိ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးတြင္ ရွိေသာ ကေလးငယ္ ၄ ဒသမ ၆ သန္းခန္႔အတြက္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ေပါင္း ၃၃၀ တြင္ အမ်ဳိးသားပိုလီယိုေရာဂါကာကြယ္ေရးအစီအစဥ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ က်န္းမာေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာနအား ယူနီဆက္ဖ္နဲ႔ ဒဗလ်ဴအိတ္ခ်္အိုက ေထာက္ပံ့ကူညီေပးခဲ့သည္။ ယင္းအစီအစဥ္တြင္ ႐ိုက္ကူးထားသည့္ ဓာတ္ပံုအခ်ဳိ႕ကို တင္ျပလုိက္ပါသည္။

ေရလႊမ္းမိုးမႈႏွင့္ႀကဳံေတြ႕ရၿပီးေနာက္ပိုင္းကာလ

စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္းေဒသႀကီး၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အေနာက္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း၊ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ ဩဂုတ္လ ၁၃ ရက္

ဓာတ္ပုံ - မ်ိဳးသိမ္း

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေနာက္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း၊ စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္းေဒသႀကီးရွိ ကေလးၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ေနထိုင္ေသာ ကေလးသူငယ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ၎တို႔၏ မိသားစုမ်ားသည္ အဆိုး႐ြားဆုံးေသာ ေရလႊမ္းမိုးမႈဒဏ္ကို ေတြ႕ႀကဳံ ခံစားခဲ့ရၿပီး ျဖစ္သည္။ တခ်ိဳ႕ေက်း႐ြာမ်ားဆိုလၽွင္ လုံး၀ပ်က္စီးလုနီးပါးအေျခအေနသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိခဲ့သည္။

စစ္ကိုင္းအစရွိေသာ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းေဒသမ်ားတြင္ ေရတျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း က်လာသည္ႏွင့္အမၽွ ေရမ်ားသည္ ေအာက္ဘက္သို႔ ဆက္လက္စုန္ဆင္းေနၿပီး ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းေဒသႀကီးႏွင့္ ပဲခူးတိုင္းေဒသႀကီးရွိ ျပည္သူ ၃၀၀,၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ႀကီးစြာ အႏၲရာယ္ျပဳၿခိမ္းေျခာက္လ်က္ရွိသည္။

ယူနီဆက္ဖ္သည္ အျခားေသာ ကမၻာ့ကုလသမဂၢေအဂ်င္စီမ်ားႏွင့္ လက္တြဲလ်က္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအစိုးရ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားႏွင့္ အနီးကပ္ ပူးေပါင္းကာ ေရလႊမ္းမိုးမႈေၾကာင့္ ပ်က္စီးမႈတန္ဖိုးမ်ားကို အကဲျဖတ္ ဆန္းစစ္ျခင္း၊ သန္႔ရွင္းၿပီး ေဘးအႏၲရာယ္ကင္းေသာေသာက္သုံးေရ ရရွိေရးအတြက္ လိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားႏွင့္ ျပန္လည ္နလန္ထူႏိုင္ေရးလိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားကို အလ်င္အျမန္ ျဖည့္ဆည္းေပးရန္ အေရးေပၚ အေထာက္အပံ့ မ်ားကိုေပးအပ္ျခင္း၊ အေရးေပၚက်န္းမာေရးေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈေပးအပ္ျခင္း၊ ေက်ာင္းႏွင့္ အိမ္မ်ားကို ျပင္ဆင္ေပးျခင္းႏွင့္ ကေလးသူငယ္မ်ား၏ စိတ္သက္သာရာရမႈအတြက္ ႏွစ္သိမ့္ေပးျခင္း စသည္တို႔ကို ေဆာင္႐ြက္လ်က္ ရွိပါသည္။



စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္းေဒသႀကီး၊ ကေလးၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ငါးမိုင္အကြာရွိ ေရလႊမ္းမိုးမႈဒဏ္ အဆိုး႐ြားဆုံးခံရေသာ ေဒသမ်ားမွ တစ္ခုတြင္ အိမ္မ်ားႏွင့္ေက်ာင္းမ်ား ယခုကဲ့သို႔ ပ်က္စီးသြားၾကသည္
©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Myo Thame

Partnerships in early recovery work with WASH

By Theingi Soe, UNICEF Water and Sanitation (WASH) Specialist

Young people in Ayeyarawaddy Region are struggling to stay afloat, with muddy water inundating all sources for drinking and bathing
©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Theingi Soe

Ayeyarawaddy Region Myanmar - 17 August 2015: Assessing the flood situation in Ayeyarawaddy Region, my UNICEF colleagues and I visited seven townships and found all the water sources inundated with mud. Before the floods, people here used to get all their drinking water from the boreholes and hand dug wells. Now they must drink bottled water as the well water is unsafe for drinking or bathing. If people bathe in this dirty water, they can get scabies and other skin diseases.

Facing the flood aftermath

Sagaing State, Northwest Myanmar, 13 August 2015

Photos by Myo Thame

Children and their families in Kalay Township in the Sagaing region of northwest Myanmar, have witnessed some of the worst devastation from the floods. Some villages have been almost completely destroyed.

As flood levels begin slowly receding in northern regions like Sagaing, water continues to move downstream, posing serious threats to over 300,000 persons in Ayeyarwaddy and Bago regions.

UNICEF together with other UN agencies, is working closely with the Myanmar authorities to assess flood damages, to deliver urgent aid to meet immediate and recovery needs for clean and safe water, emergency health care, school and shelter repairs, and psychosocial support for children.



Five miles from Kalay Township in Sagaing Province, one of the areas worst hit by the flooding, houses and schools have been destroyed

© UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Myo Thame

WASH projects reaching children in remote non-state actor controlled areas

By Theingi Soe, UNICEF Myanmar WASH specialist
April 2015

 



©UNICEF Myanmar/2015

Field Mission
At the beginning of April, I went to Kyarinseikkyi Township in Kayin State to visit a UNICEF WASH project that included water supply, WASH in schools and Community-lead Total Sanitation (CLTS) in both Government Controlled Areas and areas controlled by non-state actors (NSAs). Implemented by the national NGO, Social Vision Services, this UNICEF project covers a total of 60 villages, 60% of which are in areas controlled by NSAs. 

Mothers work together to fight child malnutrition in Rakhine IDP camps

By Ye Lwin

©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Ye Lwin

 

Sittwe, Rakhine State, March 2014: Twenty three year-old Khin Saw looks at her two children proudly. They live in Thet Kay Pyin IDP camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State and, despite the difficult living conditions, both children are healthy and strong. 

IDPs in Kachin enjoy safe drinking water and sanitation facilities

©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Ye Lwin

 By Ye Lwin

 

Waing Maw Township, Kachin State, Myanmar, January 2015: Twenty year-old Yan Wai has long waited for this moment. “Almost three years ago, when I first arrived at the camp, there was no toilet, no water supply and no proper accommodation for us”, Yan Wai said. “We were living from hand to mouth”.  

© UNICEF Myanmar/2013/Myo Thame
Ms. Miriam prepares Tha-Nakh-Kha (a traditional skin enhancing sun block) for Mee Mee* during her home visit to a family in Monywa. Mee Mee*6, lost both parents due to HIV and is taken care of by her grandparents
 

By Sandar Linn

 

MONYWA, Myanmar, 8 July 2013: UNICEF Regional Ambassador for East Asia and Pacific Region and popular Hong Kong actor-singer Miriam Yeung visited Myanmar in the first week of July, promoting Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMCT) in Myanmar for UNICEF and partners. 

The State of the World’s Children 2013 report launched in Yangon’s Aung San Stadium with sports and joyous participation of a hundred children

 

Including children with disabilities not only benefit them but enriches everyone in the society

 

By Zafrin Chowdhury

YANGON, Myanmar 14 JUNE 2013 – UNICEF’s global flagship report State of the World’s Children 2013 on children with disabilities was launched in Aung San Stadium today amidst joyous participation of a hundred children along with distinguished speakers and advocates calling for equitable rights and opportunities for children with disabilities.

Working Together in Strengthening Immunization and Health Systems in Myanmar

Yangon, Myanmar, 4 April 2013: The first round of polio immunization campaign aiming to cover 370,000 under five children was carried out from 26 to 30 April 2013 in 12 conflicts affected Townships in Rakhine State.

UNICEF scales-up response, calls for stronger combat against child malnutrition in Rakhine State

Rakhine State, MYANMAR, 23 November 2012 - While precise information about nutrition levels in Myanmar’s Rakhine State is still difficult to obtain, UNICEF is very concerned about the extent and severity of child malnutrition, which has been exacerbated by the ongoing conflict.

UNICEF and the Government of Myanmar Sign Renewed Basic Cooperation Agreement

Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar,7 November 2012:  The Government of Myanmar and UNICEF today signed the Basic Cooperation Agreement (BCA) that forms the basis and foundation of UNICEF’s development cooperation and country programmes in Myanmar.

UNICEF Prioritizes Children’s Needs in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

© UNICEF MYANMAR/2012/ Myo Thame
Children at water point of Set Yone Su IDP camp in Rakhine.Safe water and good sanitation is hard to come by in the congested IDP sites.
 

By Zafrin Chowdhury

 

The ethnic conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State that erupted in June and resurged in October 2012 displaced 115,000 people, and caused loss of lives and livelihoods.

 

For several months, the displaced people have been living in overcrowded temporary sites without adequate access to basic services.