ယွဥ္တြဲေနသည့္ ဘဝအေျခအေန ႏွစ္ခု

စင္တက္ေမာ္ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးစခန္း၊ ေပါက္ေတာ၊ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္

နံနက္ ၈ နာရီ အခ်ိန္ခန္႔သာရွိေသးေသာ္လည္း ကေလးမ်ား၏ သံၿပိဳင္ရြတ္ဆိုေနသည့္ အသံမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ယိုင္နဲ႔နဲ႔ ျဖစ္ေနသည့္ သစ္သားေဆာင္ စာသင္ခန္းသည္ ယိမ္းထိုးလွ်က္ရွိသည္။

စာသင္ေဆာင္ အခန္းအတြင္းတြင္ “I love the monkey, I love the flowers!” “How are you? Fine thank you!” ဟု ကေလးမ်ားက သံျပိဳင္ရြတ္ဆိုေနၾကသည္။

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သခ်ၤာကေတာ႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္႔ရဲ႕ အႏွစ္သက္ဆံုးဘာသာရပ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ကၽြန္ေတာ္ႀကီးလာရင္ ဆရာဝန္ႀကီးျဖစ္ခ်င္ပါတယ္၊ ဒါမွသာ တစ္ပါးသူေတြကိုကူညီႏိုင္ပါမယ္

Gaps in education threaten the futures of all children

Sin Tet Maw camp, Pauktaw, Rakhine State

It’s barely eight in the morning but already the rickety wooden classroom is shaking to the sound of young, rhythmic voices within.

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Myo Thein works on his homework at the Sin Tet Maw camp for internally displaced persons in Rakhine State, Myanmar.

ကေလးသူငယ္က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္ အာဟာရေထာက္ပံ့မႈသည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္း ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို တည္ေဆာက္ႏိုင္

ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ႏိုဘယ္လ္ဆုရွင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ သူ၏ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္သည္ ၂၅ ႏွစ္တာ ကာလအတြင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ပထမဆုံးေသာ လြတ္လပ္သည့္ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ အျပတ္အသတ္ အႏိုင္ရရွိ ခဲ့ကာ NLD မွ လာမည့္ႏွစ္ဦးတြင္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ဖြဲ႕သည့္အခါ ကမၻာတြင္ အခ်ိန္အၾကာျမင့္ဆံုး ျဖစ္သည့္ ျပည္တြင္းပဋိပကၡႏွင့္ ရင္ဆိုင္ ၾကံဳေတြ႔ ရမည္ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕(၈)ဖြဲ႕ၾကားတြင္ မၾကာေသးမီက ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုခဲ့ေသာ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရး သေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ရွိေသာ္လည္း အဆိုပါ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္သည္ အထူးသျဖင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ႏွင့္ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ေနထိုင္ေသာ ကေလးသူငယ္ ၁.၈ သန္းခန္႔ကို အကာအကြယ္ မျဖစ္ေစခဲ့ေပ။ အဆိုပါေနရာမ်ားတြင္ တားဆီးပိတ္ပင္ေနသကဲ့သို႔ ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ UNICEF ႏွင့္ NGO Health Poverty Action တို႔သည္ အေျခခံက်န္းမာေရး ေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈႏွင့္ အာဟာရရရွိမႈ ခိုင္မာေစရန္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္လ်က္ရွိၿပီး ပဋိပကၡျဖစ္ပြားမႈ၊ နယ္ေျမအခက္အခဲရွိမႈႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ကန္႔သတ္ပိတ္ပင္မႈ မ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေရာက္ရွိရန္ ခက္ခဲသည့္ေဒသမ်ားရွိ ေမြးကင္းစကေလးမ်ားႏွင့္ ကေလးသူငယ္မ်ားအား အာဟာရ ေထာက္ပံ့မႈမ်ားကို ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေပးလ်က္ရွိသည္။

Mariana Palavra ေရးသားသည္

၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္၊ ႏိုဝင္ဘာလ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ - ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေျမာက္ပိုင္း ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည့္ ျပည္တြင္း ပဋိပကၡတြင္ လြမ္းႏို အဖမ္းခံခဲ့ရသည္။ ေလယာဥ္ဗုံးႀကဲသံ၊ အဆက္မျပတ္ ေသနတ္ပစ္ခတ္ သံႏွင့္ မိုင္းကြဲသံတို႔ကို ၾကားခဲ့ရသည္ဟု လြမ္းႏိုက ျပန္ေျပာျပသည္။ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ျပည္တြင္း ပဋိပကၡ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည့္ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ အခ်ိန္က ျဖစ္သည္။ 

 

လြမ္းႏိုသည္ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ သံုးႏွစ္က ျပည္တြင္းပဋိပကၡမွ တိမ္းေရွာင္ ထြက္ေျပးလာကာ ေန႔ရပ္စြန္႔ခြာ တိမ္းေရွာင္သူမ်ား စခန္းတြင္ပင္ အိမ္ေထာင္က်ခဲ့သည္။ ယခု သူမေမြးထားသည့္ ငါးလအရြယ္ ကေလးငယ္ေလးအား ထက္ျမတ္ေအာင္ျမင္သည့္ စီးပြားရွင္ၾကီး ျဖစ္လာေစခ်င္ေနသည္။
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Children’s health and nutrition helps build peace in Myanmar

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) has won a landslide victory in Myanmar’s first free elections in 25 years. When NLD assumes office early next year, it will face one of the longest running civil conflict in the world.

Despite the recent signing of a ceasefire between the Government and representatives of eight ethnic armed group, an estimated 1.8 million children are not covered by the agreement, especially those living in some areas of Kachin and northern Shan, where conflicts continue and prevent children from accessing basic services. UNICEF and the NGO Health Poverty Action work together to strengthen access to primary health care and nutrition interventions, such as infant and young child feeding support in areas that are hard to reach due to conflict, poor geographical access, and political constraints.

 

By Mariana Palavra

 

Kachin State, November 2015 - Lwan No was caught in the middle of the civil conflict in Kachin State, Northern Myanmar. “I could hear the planes bombing the area, the constant gun shots and mine explosions”, she recalls. This was in 2011, when the civil conflict broke out in Kachin. 

 

Lwan No got married in this IDP camp, after fleeing from the civil conflict three years ago. Now, she wants her five-month old baby to become a bright and successful businesswoman.
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UNICEF delivers aid to thousands of children and families in Kachin State

Yangon, Myanmar, 11 September 2013:  From 7 to 10 September, UNICEF joined the UN Led Cross Line Mission to provide humanitarian assistance in the non-government controlled conflict-affected areas in Kachin State to deliver aid to thousands of children and families.

Starting from Kachin state capital Myitkyina, the Mission had to cross rough terrain through heavy rain and extreme weather to reach remote locations. Nearly 16,000 people in four IDP camps in Laiza: Woi Chyai Dabang, Je Yang, No 3 Market; Hpun Lum Yang and a Boarding school hosting IDP students in Momauk township, were reached with 11-truck load of supplies. IDPs in these camps will receive further humanitarian assistance. UNICEF staff also conducted brief health awareness sessions and explained the use of distributed items.

UNICEF has provided supplies in Wash, Health and Nutrition, and Education that reached an estimated 5,500 children and their families. Woi Chyai camp alone has over 1500 children under the age of 15.

Five UNICEF staff have also participated in rapid needs assessment to better plan and organize further critical support.

“UNICEF views this convoy as much more than the delivery of humanitarian assistance. It’s about bringing hope, trust, peace and international community support to the children, families and communities of Kachin. It’s about upholding human rights, including children’s rights, enhancing development outcomes and ensuring a brighter, peaceful future for all children and their families,” said Bertrand Bainvel, UNICEF Representative in Yangon, "It is high time normalcy was restored to the lives of children in Kachin.”

UN Led Cross Line Mission to conflict affected areas of Myanmar’s Kachin state is organized under the aegis of UN OCHA and in cooperation with other UN agencies and partners.

Since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, cross-line missions were conducted to border areas, covering only approximately 20 per cent (some 10,000 IDPs) of the total caseload in areas beyond Government control. Full and sustained access to all displaced locations is essential to provide assistance to all people in need.

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

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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.