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

ေတာက္ပတဲ႔အနာဂတ္ဆီသို႔- ရခုိုင္ျပည္နယ္ရိွ ကေလးမ်ားအားလံုးအတြက္ အရည္အေသြးရိွ ပညာေရး သင္ယူႏိုင္ရန္ ေသခ်ာေစဖို႔

ရီွးမားအစၥလမ္၊ ဆက္သြယ္ေရးဆိုင္ရာ ကၽြမ္းက်င္သူ၊ EAPRO

ျ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။ 

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.