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. 

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ လူငယ္စင္တာမ်ားရွိ ဘဝကၽြမ္းက်င္သင္တန္း - “ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မႈကို ခံစားရတယ္။ မ်က္လံုးေတြကုိ မွိတ္ၿပီး စိတ္ကူးယဥ္မိတယ္”

မာရယာနာာ ပါလက္ဗရာ ေရးသားသည္

ေပါက္ေတာၿမိဳ႕၊ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္၊ မတ္လ ၂၀၁၆ - သူမရဲ႕ နာမည္က ပန္းေလးတစ္ပြင့္ရဲ႕အမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး အျမဲတမ္း အျပံဳးပန္းေဝေနသူေလးျဖစ္သည္။ သဇင္ဆိုေသာ မိန္းကေလးသည္ လူဦးေရ ၈၀၀ ပင္မရွိသည့္ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ေပါက္ေတာၿမိဳ႕က ေက်ာက္ပ်ဥ္ဆိပ္ရြာတြင္ ေနထိုင္သည္။

 

သဇင္သည္ သူမ အႏွစ္သက္ဆံုးေနရာတစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ့ ေက်းရြာလူငယ္စင္တာမွာ နာရီေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ကုန္ဆံုးေလ့ရွိသည္။
©ယူနီဆက္ဖ္ျမန္မာ/၂၀၁၆/မာရီယာနာ ပါလက္ဗရာ

Life skills training at Youth Centres in Rakhine: “I feel happiness, I close my eyes and I start dreaming”

By Mariana Palavra

Pauktaw, Rakhine State, March 2016- She has the name of a flower and carries a permanent smile. Thazin (literally, “royal orchid”) lives in Kyauk Pyin Seik, a village in Pauktaw Township, Rakhine, with less than 800 habitants.

 

Thazin spends hours in one of her favourite places – the village Youth Centre.
Life skills trainings are being implemented in all eight youth centres run by DRC and supported by UNICEF in Rakhine, benefitting around  470 adolescents
©UNICEF Myanmar/2016/Mariana Palavra

International Youth Day – Myitkyina, 12th August 2014

Thirteen year old Mai Zinbu from Kachin, won first prize in the essay competition during the celebrations for International Youth Day in Myitkyina Township in Kachin State. ©UNICEF Myanmar/2014

“The world changes with your example, not with your opinions”: that’s what I found written on a wall somewhere during a trip in Central America. I was still a student, my last year of University. And that sentence contributed to inspiring all the following steps I’ve taken. That’s why probably it came back to my mind today, entering the compound of Myitkyina University.

Comprehensive Education Sector Review in Myanmar Sets the Path for Improving Quality of Education

©UNICEF Myanmar/2009/Zaw Zaw Tun

Myanmar, 8 November 2012: The Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar together with development partners officially launched a Comprehensive Education Sector Review (CESR) in the Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw on 23 October 2012.  The launching ceremony was chaired by the Deputy Minister of Education H.E Dr. Myo Myint and co-chaired by UNICEF Representative Mr Ramesh Shrestha and Mr Chris Elstoft, Assistant Director General of AusAID’s Mekong, Philippine, Myanmar and Regional Branch.