Dear Friends and Donors,

It will be Christmas in less than 2 weeks. This morning, I received an email from Andrew our Coordinator for the Scholarship and Christmas Gift Programs in Chin State/Myanmar. I believe with this email and the photos he sent Andrew passed a special Christmas gift to us all, in the form of smiles from the children, who received a Christmas Gift package and from Scholarship Students, who received the scholarship fee for the second semester of the 2024/25 school year.

Here are some excerpts from Andrew’s email:

“Once again thank you so….. much for the wonderful Christmas gifts. This time we gave different items to each child- an umbrella, a towel, a shirt, a soap, a toothpaste and brush, a ruler, two pencils, an eraser, a sharpener, 5 balloons, different candies, a box of crayon, a drawing book, (painting books and play-dough for younger kids - Preschoolers and KG). The joy of the children when they receive the gifts was beyond what I can express. They were very happy. Not only them, but their parents too! I am so much pleased and excited to the see the happy children. We gave the gifts to more than 1300 children here in Chin state. 

I was also able meet many of our scholarship students and their parents and teachers too. It was really a joy for me to see the feelings of the children and their parents when i gave the scholarship funds myself. It was very pleasing and exciting to see the education infrastructures and learning momentum in the area are more improved than have been in the past years since the coup. All the schools in our project areas could run well without any hindrances so far!”

As always, photos will say more than a thousand words. Please go to section “Photo Gallery” and select the first two albums titled: ‘2024 Christmas Gifts – Chin State’ and ‘2024/25 Myanmar Chin State Scholarship Students’.

Please join us in thanking Andrew and his team for their efforts with procuring the items for the Christmas gifts, preparing the packages and transporting them to the different villages.

Together with the children on our Scholarship Programs in Sri Lanka and Myanmar and the Christmas gift recipients we would like to take this opportunity to with you and everyone dear to you

Joyous Holidays

and a

Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year!

With best wishes,

Erna on behalf of all Trustees

Last Updated on Sunday, 15 Dec 2024 08:47