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.

ျမန္မာ့အသံႏွင့္ရုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားႏွင့္ အက္(ဖ္)အမ္ ေရဒီယိုလိုင္းမ်ား ယူနီဆက္၊ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာနႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းမည့္ အစီအစဥ္မ်ားထုတ္လႊင့္ေရး လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုး

ေနျပည္ေတာ္၊ မတ္လ ၂၁ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္ ။        ။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ ကေလးသူငယ္မ်ား ရွင္သန္ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအတြက္ သင့္ေတာ္သည့္ အျပဳအမူအေလ့အက်င့္မ်ားႏွင့္ ဗဟုသုတမ်ား ပိုမိုနားလည္သေဘာေပါက္လာေစရန္အတြက္ ျမန္မာ့ ေရဒီယိုႏွင့္ အက္(ဖ္)အမ္လိုင္းမ်ားတြင္ ယူနီဆက္ႏွင့္ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာနမွ ပူးေပါင္းတင္ဆက္သည့္ ေရဒီယိုအစီအစဥ္မ်ား ထုတ္လႊင့္ႏိုင္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းအစီအစဥ္ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးပြဲကို မတ္လ ၂၁ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္၌ က်င္းပခဲ့သည္။

အေသးစိတ္ဖတ္ရႈလိုလွ်င္

http://www.unicef.org/myanmar/media_20694.html သို႔ ၀င္ေရာက္ေလ့လာ၍ အဂၤလိပ္၊ ျမန္မာႏွစ္ဘာသာျဖင့္ ဖတ္ရႈေလ့လာႏိုင္ပါသည္။

A stitch in time: street children learn a trade

Thanda sews a shirt during a vocational training session
© UNICEF Myanmar/2012/Andy Brown

Sixteen-year-old Thanda* has spent much of her life living and working on the streets of Yangon, capital of Myanmar. She is a small, serious teenager in a blue polo shirt and traditional longyi skirt. Thanda’s father is a manual labourer and her mother is a washer woman. She has seven siblings. When the family earns enough, they live in bamboo hut outside town. But other times they can’t afford the rent and have to live on the streets.

Joint UN Executive Board’s Visit to Myanmar Aim Stronger Engagement between the UN and Myanmar

Ms. Kadra Ahmed Hassan takes time with Pa O ethnic children at Nang Tang Rual Health Centre, Nang Tang village, Kalaw Township during the Joint UN Executive Board Visit to Shan State

Taungyi, Southern Shan State, Myanmar 16 March 2013: Myanmar’s rapid and exciting transition has not escaped the attention of the Executive Board of the six United Nations Agencies working in Myanmar, namely UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP, WFP, UN Women and UNOPS. The Boards of all six agencies have chosen Myanmar for their annual joint field visit this year to actively engage with the country’s government and people in a few different remote locations.

UNICEF prioritizes children's needs in Rakhine State

UNICEF and Water and Sanitation sector partners distributed basic hygiene items, built latrines and safe water supply sources and promoted hygiene practices in Myanmar's 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.

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.