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OUR MISSION is to offer to underprivileged children from Myanmar wholesome and welcoming housing, adequate food, a safe, harmonious and enriching environment, enabling them to develop physically, intellectually, socially as well as spiritually.
OUR VISION consists in guiding each child in such a manner that he/she will grow up feeling confident, surrounded by respect, unconditional love, compassion and dignity. We hope that these values will lead them to a promising future enabling them to become committed citizens.
OUR STORY began in March 2007. But as early as 2002, following a few stays in India to work with Mother Teresa, Ms. Louise Désy, a nurse from Quebec City (Canada) chose to pursue her humanitarian commitment by teaching English in a monastery, to young people of underprivileged areas of Myanmar. As the years went by, she noticed poverty all around her. During a conversation with the monk in charge, Venerable Ashin Awbasa, she decided to support his idea of opening an orphanage *. Between 2007 and 2008, more than 35 children were able to call this new haven their home. One year later, construction of a new school began.
Thanks to the implication of the Association Entraide Myanmar (a Quebec group created in 2008), the work of numerous volunteers, generous donations from individuals and foundations, as well as the constant and precious cooperation of the co-founding monk and devoted Burmese, the dream could not have taken place, nor continue.
Although numerous measures have already been cleared, much remains to be accomplished: the children are growing, their needs are changing, cost of living increases, infrastructures sustain yearly damage by monsoons, and require continuous intervention.
*Sunrise Home Youth Development Center is located on the outskirts of Yangon;
the school is located in Shwe Pauk Kan nor far from the orphanage.
OUR VISION consists in guiding each child in such a manner that he/she will grow up feeling confident, surrounded by respect, unconditional love, compassion and dignity. We hope that these values will lead them to a promising future enabling them to become committed citizens.
OUR STORY began in March 2007. But as early as 2002, following a few stays in India to work with Mother Teresa, Ms. Louise Désy, a nurse from Quebec City (Canada) chose to pursue her humanitarian commitment by teaching English in a monastery, to young people of underprivileged areas of Myanmar. As the years went by, she noticed poverty all around her. During a conversation with the monk in charge, Venerable Ashin Awbasa, she decided to support his idea of opening an orphanage *. Between 2007 and 2008, more than 35 children were able to call this new haven their home. One year later, construction of a new school began.
Thanks to the implication of the Association Entraide Myanmar (a Quebec group created in 2008), the work of numerous volunteers, generous donations from individuals and foundations, as well as the constant and precious cooperation of the co-founding monk and devoted Burmese, the dream could not have taken place, nor continue.
Although numerous measures have already been cleared, much remains to be accomplished: the children are growing, their needs are changing, cost of living increases, infrastructures sustain yearly damage by monsoons, and require continuous intervention.
*Sunrise Home Youth Development Center is located on the outskirts of Yangon;
the school is located in Shwe Pauk Kan nor far from the orphanage.
Our children say:
THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE FOR US...
Louise Désy surrounded by the children of the orphanage
Sunrise Home Youth Development Center. April 2012.
