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The great majority of Myanmar's people live in villages in rural areas, and earn a meagre living from agriculture. Many villages have either no school, or an inadequate shack with a mud floor. Education is the children's only chance to escape from poverty, and building decent schools enables this.
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Situation
Most children in rural areas are poorly educated, and have few if any prospects of a better life: they will become labourers. In order for them to have a chance, the first necessity is for them to complete primary and middle school. In many villages, even this is impossible because they either have no school, and have to walk long distances to a nearby village (impossible in the rainy season), or attend classes with an untrained teacher in a mud-floored shack.
Solution
We will build a robust school, to add to the 36 we have already built, which will provide a dry, pleasant environment for learning and teaching, and which will encourage parents to keep their children in education. If the village has provided the land, and helped in construction, they can apply to the Township Education Office to have the school adopted by the Government, which will then provide trained teachers. The children will have a much better change of progress, and escaping poverty.
