myME: Myanmar Mobile Education Project

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Teashops in Myanmar are often "manned" by children who have no opportunity to go to school.

MISSION: Provide education via mobile classrooms to children in Myanmar (Burma) who've been compelled into indentured servitude at teashop restaurants where they're forced to work long hours every day in order to sustain their families. The mobile classrooms provide these children an opportunity to learn basic literacy, math and computer skills in a safe environment where they can gain self-confidence and develop critical thinking skills through innovative, interactive instruction.


VISION: 
Every child in Myanmar (Burma) has the right to access quality education. Education is a critical step toward alleviating poverty and the abuses associated with child labor.

Currently myME provides education to over 1200 child laborers in 53 teashops, monastic schools and 6 under-privileged communities and villages in Yangon, Mandalay, and Kyauk -Se, with plans to expand into more rural communities, where conditions are more dire. For many families in Myanmar, sending children to work is an undesired necessity. Yet myME believes all children deserve an education, no matter their circumstance.