လယ္ကြင္းျပင္မ်ားဆီမွ ေက်ာင္းသို႔ ျပန္ေရာက္လာျခင္း

စာေရးသူ - တင္ထက္ပိုင္

ကယားျပည္နယ္၊ ျမန္မာ - စီဆီလီယာဟာ သူ႔အေဖက သူ စာလုပ္တာကို မုန္းေနတုန္းပဲဆုိရင္ သူ႔အေဖကို ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးစခန္းကေန ျပန္မလာေစခ်င္ပါဘူး။ သူ႔အေဖက သူ အိမ္မွာ စာလုပ္ေနတာေတြ႔တုိင္း “စာပဲလုပ္ေန၊ ထမင္းမစားနဲ႔” လို႔ မူးၿပီးေျပာေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ 

စီတီလီယာ၊ ၁၈ ႏွစ္၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လြိဳင္ေကာ္ၿမိဳ႕၊ လိြဳင္လင္ေလး ေက်းရြာ၊ လြိဳင္လင္ေလး အထက္တန္းေက်ာင္းရွိ ေန႔လယ္ပုိင္း NFMSE သင္တန္းတြင္ အတန္းေဖာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ အဖြဲ႔လိုက္ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္း လုပ္ေနစဥ္။
 ©UNICEF Myanmar/2019/Min Zayar Oo

“ကၽြန္မက ကၽြန္မ အေဖနဲ႔မတူခ်င္ဘူး” လို႔ ၁၈ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ကရင္နီမိန္းကေလးငယ္က ျမန္မာျပည္အေရွ႕ပိုင္း ကယားျပည္နယ္ လြိဳင္ေကာ္ၿမိဳ႕ရဲ႕ အျပင္နားမွာရွိတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းေလးတစ္ေက်ာင္းရဲ႕ စာသင္ခန္းထဲမွာ ထုိင္ေနတုန္း အားမနာစတမ္းပုံစံေလးနဲ႔ ေျပာျပခဲ့တယ္။ “ကၽြန္မက ကၽြန္မကေလးေတြကို မွန္ကန္တဲ့ လမ္းေၾကာင္းကို ျပေပးႏုိင္တဲ့ ပညာတတ္ မိဘတစ္ေယာက္ ျဖစ္ခ်င္တာ” လို႔ ဆက္ၿပီးရွင္းျပတယ္။

Off the fields and back to school

by Tin Htet Paing

KAYAH, MYANMAR - Cecilia doesn’t want her father to come back from the rehabilitation centre if he still hates her for studying. “Just study and don’t eat!” he would drunkenly tell her each time he found her studying at home. 

CECILIA, 18, WORKS ON A GROUP EXCERCISE WITH HER CLASSMATES DURING THE AFTERNOON NFMSE CLASS AT BEHS LOILIN LAY, IN LOILIN LAY, LOIKAW
 ©UNICEF Myanmar/2019/Min Zayar Oo

“I don’t want to be like my father,” said the 18-year-old Karenni girl, almost unapologetically, as she sat inside her classroom at a school just outside of Loikaw in Myanmar’s eastern state of Kayah. “I want to become an educated parent who can show her children the right way,” she explained. 

Early Childhood Development, Community and School: The critical links

Quality Basic Education Programme Field Visit, Feb 2016

When it comes to Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD), we already know that early interventions positively impact young children’s transition to primary level.  Evidence on enrolment and retention is compelling, but think of the positive implications of the ECCD-community-school linkage:  Strong linkages from ECCD to school and community can also yield multiple benefits.