Sprouting Seeds Learning Centre

Dear Friends and Family, 

We trust this finds you all doing well and continuing to stay happy and healthy where ever you may be around the globe. 

If you continue to follow the news about Myanmar, you are aware that things have not been able to improve here. The struggles continue each day, escalating worse in several regions of the country. Most notably here in Kalaw it is clear to see the economic challenges the country faces. With more and more limits placed on goods, the cost of living here is skyrocketing! Things have increased between 3 to 5 times, meanwhile daily labor fees have barely seen an increase.  It all contributes to a very, very difficult situation. 

The opportunities for youth in Myanmar are growing smaller and smaller each day. 

For this reason, we are so thankful for our home here in Kalaw and our two trainings centres which are now more easily able to run again after several years. It is still extremely challenging, but we are now able to bring in another group of ethnic teachers for our teacher training internship program at the café training centre here in town. 
 

We so happy that we now have several teachers from Pa-O and Danu areas here in Shan State going through our internship program. The teachers are so excited to be joining us and are so active and enthusiastic, ready to learn as much as they can to bring back to the monastic school where they work. 

The interns have already been with us for the last month and the program is running very well. They girls are learning all the usual skills, but now are also working with a local seamstress and learning a diverse range of sewing skills. 

With rainy season quickly moving upon us, the girls are also working with seeds and getting trees and seedlings ready to move out to our Whispering Earth training centre in the village. 

Learning opportunities and chances for growth are so limited these days in Myanmar. We are so grateful for your support and contributions to our work here. With your support we are able to run this program once again and offer capacity building, training and awareness raising to young teachers from across the country! 

We look forward to sharing more news with you over the next few months!

Thank you for all your kindness and support for the people of Myanmar!

Dear Friends and Family, 

A warm holiday greetings to you all and best wishes for the upcoming new year! 

As many of you know, the political and economic situation here in Myanmar continue to spiral in a difficult and extremely challenging direction for everyone. Due the situation over the last few months, including power outages, we have had to temporarily put a hold on most of our trainings running through our cafe/bakery training in Kalaw. 

Now that the heavy rainy season is over and more stable power and internet supplies (fingers crossed!), we are currently in the process of starting our programs again here in town. 

We are still settling into the new building and making arrangement to be able to host more interns through our teacher training program and also to be able to host and train larger groups in the upcoming year. 

We aim to take another new batch of interns at the farm starting the first of the new year and look forward to share the news of the growth and development of the program. 

We greatly appreciate your ongoing support and could not make it through this challenging times without your kindness and generousity. 

With good weather ahead for the next few months it also means the interns will be able to continue working with us also in the village at our Whispering Earth Training Centre located in the rural ethnic Danu village outside of Kalaw. 

We are thankful for all your continued support and look forward to sharing more news in the coming months! 

Happy holidays to you all and warmest wishes for a happy and healthy new year!!! 

Sprouting Seeds Family