Monastic School: A Needs Assessment
Our local team investigating the current situation at monastic schools across the country has reported back an initial needs assessment. Their findings have indicated the current struggles of monastic schools in detail, and we are now in process of working on a plan for funds allocation. Any contribution, no matter how small, will go a long ways in terms of supporting this current initiative. Please join in our mission to help those children whose education, nutrition, and safety has been impacted by the military coup!
According to the data from monastic education development group, the monastic schools and nunnery schools have experienced an acute lack of teaching materials even during the previous democratic administrations, which implemented free compulsory education for all children throughout the country. Historically, the philanthropist monastic schools and nunnery schools were always neglected by military dictators, and these days, the monks and nuns with their volunteer teachers have to find the teaching aids and materials by themselves. This project is intended to support the teaching aids and materials for the children and teachers to fill in a gap.
In every monastic school and nunnery school, there are management and administration committees including the abbots or head nuns as the principal, teachers and some community heads. They manage to be able to get the teaching materials for the teachers in order to create a better learning environment of the children. According to a volunteer from Phaung Daw Oo monastic education high school who is helping the other monastic schools across the country working with monastic education development group, monastic teachers do not get any teaching materials from the state level these days and in fact, it is more effective to teach the children through the teaching aids materials.
On the purpose of supporting teaching materials and creating a help in other operating cost, we are contributing a financial contribution of a tentative amount to 100 monastic and nunnery schools in different states and regions of the country. We are selecting the most needed schools through the chair monks of the respective monastic school supervision committees of the state or region. We will fund the respective administration committees of the beneficiary monastic and nunnery schools. They will purchase their needed materials and will report to their respective state/region monastic school supervision committees. All of this will be reported and transparent.
For the report process, we will work with the state/region supervision committees to follow up how the beneficiary schools spend our fund and they will have to report to our team with photographs and receipts/ brochures.