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 2025/2026

Despite continuing political upheaval, poverty, displacement, and the horrendous earthquake, our students completed the 2024/25 school year. There will continue to be two scholarship programs in Myanmar: 

1.     102 students in grades 5-12 studying in various schools in Chin State; and 

2.       4 students in grades 7-11 studying in two different schools in Yangon.

In total 106 students will receive support for the 2025/26 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: 23 new students (all girls, Grade 5) were added to the program. 17 replacing students who left Myanmar or failed their exams and 6 additions.

Starting with the 2024/2025 school year, students have to achieve:

a/ at least a 50% mark on average in all tests throughout the school year, and

b/ their attendance has to be a minimum of 90% (excluding sick leave).

to 2. Yangon: 3 of the 7 students on the 2024/25 program completed their high school education (Grade 12). The remaining 4 students passed their exams and will continue to be supported until they finish high school. This program will not be expanded. 

For the 2025/26 school year the breakdown between girls and boys on the 2 programs is:
a/ Chin State:        100 girls   2 boys
b/ Yangon:                2 girls   2 boys
Total:                   102 girls  4 boys

What is exciting is that to date (2014/15 – 2024/25) 28 students completed their High School education despite Covid, the Civil War, etc.

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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History:

Myanmar 2024/2025

In total 103 students received support: 

1.     96 students in grades 5-11 studying in various schools in Chin State; and 

2.       7 students in grades 6-12 studying in several schools in Yangon. 

Result: 3 students in Yangon graduated from High School.

Myanmar 2023/2024
In total 91 students received support:
1.     84 students in grades 5-10 studying in various schools in Chin State; and 

2.       7 students in grades 5-11 studying in several schools in Yangon.

Result: 6 students in Chin State, who were in grade 12 in 2022 graduated from High School.  

Myanmar 2022/2023
In total 74 students received support:
1.     63 students in grades 5-12 studying in various schools in Chin State; and 

2.     11 students in grades 4-11 studying in several schools in Yangon.

Important to note:

Our students in Myanmar lost 2 school years due to the pandemic and the political situation in the country. The schools re-opened early July 2022.

Nine students, who were in grade 12 in 2020 when the schools closed, dropped out.

Myanmar 2020/2021
In total 85 students received support:  

1.     72 students in grades 6-12 studying in various schools in Chin State; and 

2.     13 students in grades 3 – 12 in several schools in Yangon.

Important to note:

Starting with the 2020/21 school year High School in Myanmar will be three (grades 10 to 12) instead of only two years.

Myanmar 2019/2020 
In total 73 students received support:
1.     60 students in grades 6-11 studying in various schools in Chin State;

2.     13 students in grades 3-11 in several schools in Yangon.

Myanmar 2018/2019

In total 69 students received support:
1.     55 students in grades 6-11 studying in various schools in Chin State;

2.     13 students in grades 2-11 in several schools in Yangon; and

3.       1 student in grade 11 also in Yangon.

Result: 16 students in Chin State and 1 student in Yangon graduated from High School.

Myanmar 2017/2018

In total 76 students received support:
1.     55 students in grades 6-10 studying in various schools in Chin State;

2.     19 students in grades 1 – 10 in several schools in Yangon; and

3.       2 students in grades 10 and 11 also in Yangon.

Important to note:
This is the first year scholarship has been provided for students in High School. Since there are no High Schools in the villages in Chin State where the majority of our students live, our fund has to cover the cost for the hostel in addition to the school fees. The total is substantially higher than the cost for a Middle School scholarship.

Result: 1 student in Yangon graduated from High School.

Myanmar 2016/2017

In total 71 students received support:
1.     48 students in grades 6-9 studying in different villages in Chin State;

2.     20 students in grades 1 – 11 in various districts in Yangon; and

3.       3 students in grades 10 and 12 also in Yangon.

Result: 1 student in Yangon graduated from High School.

Myanmar 2015/2016

In total 64 students received support:
1.     40 students in grades 6-8 studying in different villages in Chin State;

2.     21 students in pre-school and grades 2 – 10 in various districts in Yangon; and

3.       3 students in grades 9-11 also in Yangon.

Myanmar 2014/15
In total 62 children received support:
1.     37 children in grades 6 and 7 studying in different villages in Chin State, and

2.     25 children in pre-school and grades 1-9 in various districts in Yangon and other parts of the country.

Looking back to Spring 2013:

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 children in our second program also come from a very poor background and could not attend school without our fund's support.

c/ The school year in Myanmar starts at the end of early June and ends at the end of February resp. March of the following year.

Last Updated on Monday, 19 May 2025 17:39