About our school

The mission

The mission of Phaung Daw Oo

Phaung Daw Oo is dedicated to providing quality, free education to the under-privileged children of Mandalay. We will not close our doors to any child in need. We are committed to providing the highest quality of standards in our curriculum. To this end, our teaching staff must meet the highest expectation of our program. We believe that all children can succeed in life and find the path to which they may find happiness.

History

Founded in 1993 by Venerable Nayaka B. Sc (Chem.) and Venerable Jotika B. Sc (Chem.) over seventeen years of private free institution for children who nearly drop out of school forever due to financial status of their family.

Location

It is situated in Nanshe, in the resettlement residential suburb of North East Mandalay.

How to become integrated education school

It was named Phaung Daw Oo, Integrated Education School, by Mr. Karl Dorning, Program Coordinator, World Vision Myanmar, after his spouse, Mrs. Sue Dorning’s sentimental trip to Project Site in February 1996, together with UNICEF delegation led by Mrs. Chen Xiaoyu, project officer, child welfare services.

They were the first benefactors who promised to undertake to look for the charitable funds and later assured access for the estimated US $ 9,959.67 for income generation.

The curriculum

We provide access to education for the children from kinder garden up to high school courses that of state curriculum which is accredited by the government.

Project rationale

Both girls and boys attend classes and enrollment is not based to towards any specific religion and any fees are not charged.

Presently, 108 teachers are employed to teach the 6453 enrolled children. In order to pay these teachers a basic salary, total funding are obliged to be raised through income generation and occasional donations.

Taught subjects

General subjects

• › Mathematics
• › History
• › Geography
• › Economy
• › Burmese

Languages

• › English
• › Japanese
• › German
• › French

Computing

• › Keyboarding
• › Use of common softwares
• › Use of Internet and e-mail services
• › HTML and creation of websites

Other subjects

• › Buddhism
• › Zoology
• › Botany

Manual activities

• › Sewing
• › Carpentry
• › Cooking

School expense

Expense

The monthly school expenditure of the scool in 2002/2003 academic year in totalled approximately US $ 1,009.25 of which US $ 406.67 for teachers’s salaries, US $ 300 for clinic and US $ 302.58 is for other expenses, including fuel and light, travelling expenses, furniture, transportation for English speaking teachers, administration charges, photocopier and computer maintenance, teahers’ kid, stationary for monthly test and medical care for children, etc.

Donate to the needy features

Each year the school spends the equivalent of $ 10 per student, but we ask no money of the parents. They cannot afford over one dollar. The school opens its doors freely to all families in Mandalay. We can only do this through the support of our donors, people like you who can afford the small donations necessary to run our school. Please, if you want to help, contact us.

We give great thanks to the following donors:

For Library donated by Mrs. Diana Millton and Mr. Graham Millto(Director of B.C)

For Australia-Myanmar Friendship School building donated by Mr. Steven Killelea The Charitable Foundation (US$ 110000).

For Japan-Myanmar Friendship School building donated by United Nation Women Association was Founded by the Embassy of Japan (US$ 80,000).

Statistics

Mandalay is a growing city of tremendous need. As news of our school has reached the ears of the community, parents throughout the city have come to us asking that we admit their children. Our student population has grown far greater than expected, almost doubling every two years. To accommodate this need, we have hired many new teachers who work at very low wages because they believe in our mission.

However, the numbers of students have grown beyond the capacity of our facility. Classrooms are bulging with eager, young minds ready to learn. Without fans or air-conditioning, without enough books and basic supplies, our teachers diligently strive to provide the best possible education to the children in need of Mandalay.

List of teachers and students yearly