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Our Accomplishments
2018-2019
End of new construction and inauguration
In total, 72 volunteers from C.A.S.I.R.A. (Centre Amitié de Solidarité Internationale de la Région des Appalaches), contributed to the realization of this gigantic project. Their precious presence was deeply appreciated!
We wish to express our special thanks to the generous donors and friends, to all those who, directly or indirectly, have been a part of this immense adventure.
Needless to say, that when came the time of the official inauguration, an unprecedented outpouring of joy could be observed! Manifestations of enthusiasm from the children were simply breathtaking.
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2016-2017
New construction is undertaken
We wish to thank all the volunteers involved in the construction of our “new Home”, especially this unknown elderly lady who spontaneously decided to symbolically add two bricks to the building. A fine gesture that touched the hearts of all the workers. Even the children surprised us as they arrived unannounced one morning, to join the team for a few hours!
Between November 2016 and March 2017, three groups of 10 volunteers each from Quebec, in association with C.A.S.I.R.A., came to lend a hand to the team on site. In the fall of 2017 and early 2018, an additional 34 volunteers will assist in completing the project.
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2015
Reconstruction of the orphanage becomes a necessity
In spite of annual maintenance and care given to the infrastructures, the successive heavy monsoons seasons and the persistent damage caused by termites, the main building has rapidly and alarmingly deteriorated over the years. Furthermore, our two original buildings can no longer adequately accommodate the number of children, which has now grown from 35 to 54, following a recent government requirement.
A major fundraising campaign is undertaken.
(Below: the new project submitted by a student in architecture from Yangon.)
2014
Main achievements at the orphanage
- Replacement of floors and exterior staircase infested by termites.
- Renovation of the building housing the dining area and one of the boys' dormitories.
- Fans were installed in the living areas throughout the building.
- A better roof was constructed between two secondary buildings (study area and secretariat).
- Major restauration of court-wall damaged by the 2013 monsoon.
Main achievements at the school
- Completion of the final phase of the ground work surrounding the building, insuring
protection against infiltrations from floods occurring annually during the rainy season.
- Construction of a power grid (there was no access to electricity in the area.)
(First two rows: at the orphanage. / Third row: at the school.)
2013
(First row: at the orphanage. / Second row: at the school.)
- Purchase of 3 computers and a printer.
- Purchase of 5 bicycles, for transportation of secondary level students.
- Installation of a reverse osmosis water filtration system (water supplied by city is unfit for human consumption).
- Installation of air conditioning in the girls' dormitory and the computer room.
- Refection of the front wall of main building, infested by termites.
- Replacement of windows (original material was of secondhand quality).
- Purchase of a dryer for clothes (during the 5 months monsoon, clothes hardly dry otherwise!).
2012
Main achievements at the orphanage
- Renovation of the kitchen and adjacent areas.
- Purchase of washing machine.
- Addition of a space for computers.
- Solidification of the court-yard wall damaged by monsoon of the preceding summer.
- Pavement done on front yard (children's playground).
Main achievements at the school
- Construction of second phase including rebuilding the road leading to the school.
The area has known its most severe monsoon in recent years.
- Installation of sanitary facilities outside the school (the custom in Myanmar).
- Purchase of 80 desks and chairs.
- Construction of a secure access gateway.
- Drainage of the land surrounding the building and addition of a concrete sidewalk.
(First and second photos: New kitchen at the orphanage. / Third photo: the school is completed.)
2011
Main achievements at the orphanage
- Rebuilding of roof of main building of orphanage.
- Rebuilding of enclosing wall, which was raised and solidified.
- Restauration of electrical system.
- Rebuilding of sewage system insuring better ventilation.
- General maintenance of building (painting and protection of lower walls against termites).
2010
Main achievements at the orphanage
- Rebuilding of interior walls, floors and ceilings damaged by cyclone are renovated.
- Fabrication of furniture: bunk beds for girls, tables for dining room and shelves for library.
- Rebuilding of living room and dining room.
- Construction of dormitory for teenage boys.
- Purchase of equipment (mattresses, whiteboards, fans, individual clothes closets, washing machine.)
- Building of a veranda for better circulation during the rainy season.
- Installation of a telephone line.
2009
The addition of a school
After the orphanage got under way, a new project took the road: the construction of a SCHOOL
on a piece of land received by a local donator.
This school primarily dedicated to the children from the orphanage, will also be accessible to underprivileged children from nearby villages, whose families have lost everything at the time of the cyclone.
Later on the school once completed was transferred to the local community.
2008
- In January, the orphanage underway is named Sunrise Youth Development Center.
- By February, the orphanage is sheltering 17 children, while the day-care center is receiving 20.
- Cyclone Nargis, a tropical hurricane of major proportions caused the worst natural disaster ever known
in the history of Myanmar. It struck the country during the night of May 2nd, 2008, leaving in its wake
catastrophic destruction, 130,000 died and thousands more missing.
This cyclone heavily damaged the newly built installations of the orphanage.
- A small group of people in Quebec City, Canada, came to the rescue forming l'Association Entraide Myanmar.
An urgent fund raising campaign was set up by the Association.
- In July, 20 children from the devastated Delta, in Southern Myanmar, are brought to Sunrise Home despite
the precarious conditions of the premises after the cyclone.
The number of children being sheltered now reaches 39.
- In July also, start up of repair work to part of the orphanage and construction of a new building,
replacing the day-care center which was totally destroyed.
2007
Our beginnings
In December that year, we started the renovation of an old building owned by the monk co-founder of the orphanage, and the construction of a small day-care center accommodating children from the neighbourhood.
All of these achievements were made possible thanks to the most precious support of people and organisms
having truly humanitarian cooperation at heart. All of the expertise, talent and time devoted along with funds received, this is what enables us to provide a new beginning in the lives of these wonderful children.
