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Education
In Myanmar, religious-run schools still have a significant role in its education system. These schools play an important part in terms of access to education. They offer free education and especially target orphans or children from poor families who cannot afford to pursue formal education. They follow the official primary curriculum. These schools supervised by the Buddhist monks are very significant. In 1946, the Buddhists started a monastic education project with the aim of opening more monastic schools in remote regions. It was finally formalized in 1992 with permission from the government. There are now more than 1400 monastic schools in 250 townships through Myanmar.
Monastic schools are not well resourced and in remote regions like we operate in also act as a ‘boarding school’ during the week for children who live too far away to commute every day for school. The monks do not charge for this service but provide food and basic sleeping quarters in the classrooms.
Saffron Aid is helping children attend schools to help increase the education level in remote regional areas while helping schools retain the children. Due to very low incomes many children become labourers on farms, shops and factories so they can contribute to the family income. By taking the burden of schooling costs from the family means children are able to attend school and gain an education.
By helping schools and teachers improve facilities and equipment means parents are more willing to send the children to be educated.
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Mentoring Teachers
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Helping Children Stay at School
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School Building
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Keeping Languages Alive through Creative Writing
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Agriculture
Myanmar has worked hard in fighting hunger after the country dramatically slashed the number of hungry people by a 2015 deadline. Myanmar was one of 72 countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the proportion of hungry people, or bringing it below a five percent threshold.
Saffron Aid is working towards building sustainable communities in remote regions of Myanmar by improving subsistence farming techniques as well as developing sustainable commercial market gardens and farming, one of the biggest challenges to food safety is the misuse of chemical pesticides and fertilisers.
- To emphasize production and utilisation of high-yielding and good quality seeds.
- To conduct training and education for farmers and families on agricultural techniques.
- To implement research and development activities for sustainable agricultural development.
- To assist farmers to a get fair price on their produce.
- To assist in lowering production costs, increasing high quality crop production.
- To encourage transformation from conventional to mechanised agriculture, production of crops appropriate with climate.
- To support poverty reduction activities through development of agriculture sector.
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Family Vegetable Plot
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Chicken Breeding and Raising
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Tourism and Business Building
Saffron Aid is building remote community capacity by helping to train remote villagers in Eco-Tourism Guiding and to mentor and help develop Micro Businesses that will help families generate income.
One of our ventures is a Social Enterprise with a local tour agent which aims to generate money to pay for Saffron Aid’s projects by using locally trained guides and businesses for the organised tours.
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Social Enterprise – My Adventure Tours
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Environmental Projects
By working with the local communities and government agencies Saffron Aid is developing projects to rehabilitate, clean and manage the aqua
tic and land environments.
Our projects aim to raise environmental awareness, understanding and knowledge among young people. promote the protection and conservation of the environment. support the personal development of young people through practical environmental projects and activities.
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Plastic Pollution
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Plastic Recycling
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