myME Project Launch Event - Yangon (Saturday, January18 @10:00am)
Tim Aye-Hardy
myME Project ဖြင့္လွစ္မိတ္ဆက္ပြဲအခမ္းအနားသို႕တက္ေရာက္ပါရန္ ေလးစားစြာဖိတ္ၾကားအပ္ပါသည္။
Great news! myME Bus is now rolling on the streets of Yangon all because of
YOU..:-) We're truly grateful for your continued support and generous
donations. Classes started at two Lucky Seven teashops from Monday through
Saturday about two weeks ago, and over 100 teashop children are currently
enrolled, which is also double our projected capacity during this pilot
project run. We've given placement tests to determine their appropriate
level of courses in the beginning and divided the students into three
levels; Level 0 (Early Learner), Level 1 is for Primary Level, and Level 2
is for beyond Primary level. Fortunately, we were able to negotiate with the
owners to allow us to use their teashops for larger groups and myME Bus is
being used for smaller group since it can only hold up to 20 students at a
time. More photos and news will follow shortly on our Facebook page
(www.facebook.com/mymeproject). We're now in collaboration with MLRC
(Myanmar Literacy Resource Center) to provide Non-Formal Education resources
and materials, and they've also agreed to train our teachers and
facilitators for their life-skills based continuing education (EXCEL Program)
and provide necessary course materials.
In order to share all these success stories and celebrate our 1st myME step
in Burma, I'd love for you, your friends and family to join us for the
project launch event this Saturday in Yangon.
Date: Saturday, January 18, 2014
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
Location: Royal Garden Restaurant - Nat Mauk Rd., Kandawgyi Natural Park,
Central Forest Zone, Bahan Township, Yangon (Ph: 01-546202, 01-546923)
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/344994692306349
myME Contact: in...@myMEproject.org | visit www.myMEproject.org
myME Phone: 01-562103 | 09-731 56527
I know some of you're not in Burma, but please feel free to invite anyone who're in Yangon and might be interested in attending.
Sincerely,
~Tim
Happy New Year from the Golden Land! Wishing you a wonderful new year fills with good health, joy, endless love and peace..:-) The myMEproject is having a great New Year and wonderful start because of all your love, support and contributions, and also we thank you for sharing it with your friends and everyone around the world.. We’ve reached the $20,000 Indiegogo fundraising goal! But, still have a few hours left for those who haven’t got a chance to donate (http://bit.ly/1hd1aSW).
It’s been a wonderful and moving experience for me to be on the ground working and interacting with amazing folks from various backgrounds, groups, and partners, especially with the teashop children. The project is moving along VERY well and we’ve already started to teach at two large teashops, each one has around 50 children! We’ll be sharing updates, photos, and stories through our myME Facebook page (www.facebook.com/mymeproject) as we move along.
Happy New Year and thank for your continued support.
Sincerely,
~Tim---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tim Aye-Hardy <tima...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:11 AM
Subject: Updates: Help us reform Myanmar (Burma) one teashop child at a time!
To:Hello everyone,
Greetings from the Golden Land! Our heartfelt gratitude to those of you who have contributed and helped us spread the word..:-) So far, we've raised over $10,000.00. We also updated the campaign with some photos and news (http://bit.ly/1hd1aSW) from Myanmar (Burma).
Meanwhile, for those who have yet to donate, please consider doing so and also help spread the word by sharing this email, or clicking the “Like”, “Tweet”, “Embed” or “Email” button on the Indiegogo campaign page.
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ေက်ာင္းေနအရြယ္ကေလးငယ္မ်ား ေက်ာင္းမေနရဘဲ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္မ်ားတြင္ ေန႔စဥ္နာရီေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ အလုပ္လုပ္ျပီး၀င္ေငြရွာေနရေသာဘ၀မ်ားမွ တုိးတက္ေျပာင္းလဲရန္ ၾကဳိးစားေဆာင္ရြက္ေပး ေနေသာ ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႔၏ myMEproject ကုိ ေက်းဇူးျပဳ၍ ကူညီေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးပါရန္ ႏုိးေဆာ္အပ္ပါသည္။ ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႕၏ myMEproject သည္ ေန႔စဥ္နာရီေပါင္းမ်ားစြာအလုပ္လုပ္ကိုင္ေနရေသာ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားကုိ တစ္ေန႔လွ်င္ (၂)နာရီ ေခတ္မွီနည္းပညာမ်ားျဖင္႕ စာေပသင္ၾကားေပးျပီး အာဟာရျဖစ္ေစေသာအစားအစာမ်ားကုိတစ္ေန႕တစ္ၾကိမ္ေကၽြးေမြးသြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
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Thanks,
~Tim
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tim Aye-Hardy <tima...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:17 AM
Subject: Help us reform Myanmar (Burma) one teashop child at a time!
To:
Hello Everyone,
As you know teashops are located all over Myanmar (Burma) - they are
small road- or alley-side restaurants where the local people come
regularly for daily sweet tea, snacks, and sometimes to watch the
Premier League matches. Also, they are the central points where
diverse sociopolitical debates and issues are conversed, and various
movements and uprisings were born - particularly the legendary 8888
nationwide uprising. Sadly, these teashops are staffed with children
who are forced to work very long hours (up to 15 hours) every day to
sustain their families. These children are not supposed to be working;
they should be enjoying their childhood lives at school!
Now you can support these children compelled into indentured servitude
get free schooling thru our innovative project—the very first of its
kind in Myanmar (Burma)! myME: Myanmar Mobile Education project
provides 2 hours of engaging education and one nutritious meal per day
to children who are forced to work long hours 7 days per week.
This is a unique and vital project with enormous impact. It’s led by a
small volunteer team based in NYC and in Myanmar. All that’s needed is
the help of compassionate and generous supporters like you! Please
consider donating to our Indiegogo campaign (http://bit.ly/1b7vOc8) to
get this project off the ground. No amount is too small.
Please also help spread the word by either sharing this email, or
clicking the “Like”, “Tweet”, “Embed” or “Email” button on the
campaign page to share it with your friends.
Thanks for all your support and contribution!
Sincerely,
~Tim
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“The worth of the individual human being is the most unique and
precious of all our assets and must be the beginning and end of all
our efforts. Governments, systems, ideologies and institutions come
and go, but humanity remains.”
- U Thant, UN Secretary-General (1961-1971
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“The worth of the individual human being is the most unique and precious of all our assets and must be the beginning and end of all our efforts. Governments, systems, ideologies and institutions come and go, but humanity remains.”
- U Thant, UN Secretary-General (1961-1971)
