Stichting World Child Care

WCC supports underprivileged (orphaned) children and youth up to twenty years old, living in developing country Myanmar. This includes healthy food, clothing, housing, education, hygiene and medical care.

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Education situation in Myanmar is worrying

Education situation in Myanmar is worrying

In Myanmar, summer holidays are in the months of April and May. Normally all schools start again around June 1th. However, due to the military coup, almost all schools in the country have been closed. Government school teachers are on strike, risking their lives. The monastic schools are partly open. Only children from wealthier families can attend private schools. This is already the fourth school year in a row that many children and young people cannot enjoy education. First because of the corona lockdowns and now because of the political situation.

Trauma processing support

Trauma processing support

The fighting in Myanmar between the government army on the one hand and civilian militias on the other continues unabated. As a result, it is currently not safe in many villages and towns. Education has been at a standstill for three years as government school staff have laid off work in protest of the military coup. One of the few schools that ran at full capacity last school year is the PDO High School in Mandalay, where we as a foundation are active.

Read our 2022 Annual Report

Read our 2022 Annual Report

We cordially invite you to read our Annual Review 2022. Thanks to your support, there is a lot of good news to report! In the newsletter we outline the current situation in Myanmar. It is anything but rosy due to the corona crisis and the takeover of power. But we also tell you how our people on site put their shoulders to the wheel in education, care and guidance for the many underprivileged children and young people at the PDO High School in Mandalay.

External news

H&M pulls out of Myanmar

H&M pulls out of Myanmar

A report was released on Wednesday, August 16, showing that working conditions in Myanmar's garment factories have deteriorated since the 2021 military coup. H&M is going to pull out of Myanmar step by step. Inditex, the company behind Zara and Primark, among others, already preceded the Swedish billion-dollar company. However, the question is whether workers will benefit from H&M's decision.

Is it Burma or Myanmar?

Is it Burma or Myanmar?

Burma, Birma, Myanmar. Those are the three names that you often see mixed up. First of all, we can be brief about the difference between Burma and Birma. Birma is Dutch for Burma. But should you say Burma or Myanmar? That mainly depends on your own preference and/or your nationality. Because in some countries Burma/Birma is consistently used in the media, in other countries you only hear Myanmar. And that in turn is determined by whether or not the name Myanmar is recognized by the government of that country.

Cyclone Mocha wreaks havoc

Cyclone Mocha wreaks havoc

On Sunday, May 11, tropical cyclone Mocha made landfall in Myanmar's Rakhine state. A great deal of damage was caused and at least three people were killed. Bangladesh was also hit by the storm earlier, but escaped without much damage. Hundreds of thousands of people from Myanmar and Bangladesh were evacuated the day before the storm. There were fears of a category 5 cyclone, the strongest of its kind.