Late last year Goducate visited Yangon and Mandalay in Myanmar to see whether we could play a useful part in helping the needy help themselves there. We identified one project in Yangon that we thought was worthwhile and that seemed to need much support. After monitoring the work out there in Yangon and after much deliberation at headquarters, Goducate revisited the team last month and decided to support that work.
Myanmar is opening up, and the ability to communicate well in English will be useful for finding jobs. One line of work that this team is doing is thus to teach English to very poor communities. So far the team is teaching English in four such communities. The teaching facilities are extremely basic, but the classes are much in demand. In some of these communities the classes are attended by both children and adults.
