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Social Workers Visit Chin State To Monitor Children And Their Families

Social Workers Visit Chin State To Monitor Children And Their Families

Last week three of our social workers visited remote villages in Chin state, to check up on children from five different families who have left orphanages in Yangon and gone back to live with their families…

Raising Awareness Of Orphanage Issues In Rural Myanmar

Raising Awareness Of Orphanage Issues In Rural Myanmar

In many rural areas of Myanmar it has sadly become fairly common for families to send their children away to orphanages, whenever a difficult situation arises. A major problem is that when one family sends their child away, it can encourage others to follow suit…

Children in Myanmar Orphanages Face Bullying

Children in Myanmar Orphanages Face Bullying

Every day in Myanmar, children are sent away from their families to live in orphanages. One boy who ended up in an orphanage in Yangon came from a small, rural village. He and his older sister were sent away in the hope that they would receive a better education outside their village….

A Baby Named Cherry: Institutional Care Negatively Effects Child Development

A Baby Named Cherry: Institutional Care Negatively Effects Child Development

During the next visit to the family, they asked us how we had traced them. After explaining our visit to the clinic, meeting U Zay, and making a plan to conduct the survey about traditional medicine….

A Baby Named Cherry: Single Mothers Face Stigma in Myanmar

A Baby Named Cherry: Single Mothers Face Stigma in Myanmar

Being a single mother in any country can be a huge challenge. Parenting is not an easy job with two parents, and when support isn’t available, it’s easy for new mothers to feel overwhelmed and disheartened…

How Family Breakdown In Myanmar Causes Children To Be Placed in Orphanages 

How Family Breakdown In Myanmar Causes Children To Be Placed in Orphanages 

Family breakdown is one of the biggest reasons why children in Myanmar are placed into orphanages. Without support to help parents during these difficult times, whole families can rip apart. When Tar and Lay’s parents got divorced, their lives were changed forever…

A Family Reunited

A Family Reunited

Maung and Khui are from a remote village in Chin State, Myanmar. When Maung was just three years old, his father passed away and their mother was left to care for him and his siblings.

From Orphanage To Family - One Boy’s Journey Home.

From Orphanage To Family - One Boy’s Journey Home.

Earlier this year, during the school summer holidays, Kinnected social workers accompanied 8-year-old Kyaw and six other boys from the same orphanage on a long bus journey back home.