Recently a small team from Goducate visited Myanmar to see what help Goducate could give the needy there to help themselves. We had been urged to do so by a Goducate supporter who visited that country a year ago. In the mean time we had met or had been in touch with some people who work among the needy in Myanmar, running an orphanage and/or teaching needy local children, and were able to visit them.
The very poor in Myanmar are not hard to find. We visited villages where people live in makeshift or very broken-down huts, without electricity or running water. At one place, the muddy green water being used came from a very shallow well that obviously contained rain water and overflow water from the drains, rather than groundwater. Food was cooked over a fire created from bits of charcoal that the people had scavenged for.
Goducate is now thinking about the specific role it can play in helping the needy in Myanmar to help themselves.
