Scholarships are our main project and receive our focused attention. We firmly believe that a good education will pave the way for a better future for underprivileged children. Our goal is to fund deserving students who pass the grade, until they have completed their high school education.

Myanmar 2026/2027

Despite continuing political upheaval, displacement and increasing poverty because the Myanmar Government does not support Chin State, our students completed the 2025/26 school year. There will continue to be two scholarship programs in Myanmar: 

1.     110 students in grades 5-10 studying in various schools in Chin State; and 

2.        3 students in grades 7-12 studying in two different schools in Yangon.

In total 113 students will receive support for the 2026/27 school year, compared with 41 for the 2013/14 school year, when the scholarship programs in Myanmar were started. 

Please note:

To 1. Chin State: 29 new students (all girls, 28 in Grade 5, 1 in Grade 7) were added to the program. 19 replacing students who passed grades 11 and 12 in Myanmar and left to complete high school grades 12-13 in India. This will allow them to attend Indian Universities. 10 are new additions to give more underprivileged girls the opportunity to get educated.

to 2. Yangon: 1 student failed the grade. Therefore only 3 students remain on this program for the 2026/27 school year. This program will finish once the remaining students graduate from high school.

For the 2026/27 school year the breakdown between girls and boys on the 2 programs is:
a/ Chin State:        110 girls  
b/ Yangon:                2 girls   1 boy
Total:                   112 girls   1 boy

To date (2014/15 – 2025/26) 47 students completed their High School education despite Covid, the Civil War, Earthquake etc. This includes 19 students, who moved to India for their final high school years (Grade 12, or Grade 13).

Please join us in thanking our Coordinators for their willingness to administer and support our Myanmar scholarship programs as volunteers. The success of the programs speaks for their dedication to help needy children get a good education. 

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A little History:

With the help and assistance of 3 very kind people, dedicated to improving the lives of underprivileged children, we could start two scholarship programs in Myanmar at the end of May 2013.

You may want to know that:

a/ Chin State is the poorest State in Myanmar, where people have to fight for their livelihood. The children we support come from villages which are part of a project called “Families Together: Rural Education Support Program”. This program allows children to stay with their families while attending school. In the past, the only possibility to get some schooling was for these children to spend several years in ‘Orphanages’ in big cities, which meant separation from parents/siblings for long periods of time.

b/ The school year in Myanmar starts end May/early June and ends in February/March of the following year.

Interested in the process applied in Sri Lanka:

- Our local project coordinator explains responsibility and accountability to scholarship students, their parents, or guardians, school principals and class teachers.
 
- Every year, the year end results report for each student is submitted by the school principal or class teacher via the project coordinator, who translates it for us.  

- Students who do not achieve;
  a/ at least a 50% mark on average in all tests throughout the school year, and
  b/ an attendance of a minimum of 90% (excluding sick leave)
  will not be eligible for continued funding and will be replaced with other needy students. 

- Detailed statistics for the students on the scholarship program starting from 2014/15 until 2025/26 are available upon request. Please contact us at: ifescsf@gmail.com if you would like to receive these statistics.

Last Updated on Friday, 24 Apr 2026 18:32