Gender Equality Myanmar Project #17014

Sprouting Seeds Learning Centre

by Whispering Seed

Project Report | Jul 24, 2022
27th Report for Sprouting Seeds Learning Center

By Jim Connor | Project Leader

Teacher interns building earthen counter at cafe

Dear Friends and Family,

We trust you are all doing well and staying safe these days. We continue to do our best here in Myanmar with the on-going covid 19 situation and also a very insecure political situation across the entire country.

We are getting more settled in our new space here in Kalaw. We continue to run our internship program here at Sprouting Seeds to youth and adults from around the country. We also continue to use our new building as a space to host trainings and meetings for various groups from around the country.

Newest member of Sprouting Seeds Family!
We are excited to share about our latest addition to our family here in Kalaw. Back at the end of March, our little Gu Gu (Aliyah) joined our family! With her arrival, she makes one of us a Grandpa!! Everyone is happy and healthy and she is growing too fast!

Monsoon Season Trainings and Planning
With heavy monsoon season upon us, we slowly retreat indoors and continue to work on our plans for the upcoming winter and dry seasons.

With another upcoming group of new interns on their way we are excited to plan and implement new projects and products here at our centre in Kalaw aimed at the high season this coming winter.

We are redesigning some of the spaces to accommodate more people and will start the renovations outdoors once the monsoon season slows down. We are looking forward to providing more trainings in the coming months and start on the renovations as soon as possible!

We are grateful for all the continued support. It means so much especially as we go through such challenging times here in Myanmar. We look forward to sharing more news with you over the next few months!

Sprouting Seeds Family!

Newest shining light at Sprouting Seeds...Aliya!

Teachers sharing about seeds with youth in village

Interns building their first mud brick bread oven

Youth from village taking baking lessons at Seeds

Interns learning to build and design with mud!

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Mar 21, 2022
26th Report for Sprouting Seeds Learning Center

By Jim Connor | Project Leader

The main building at our new cafe training centre

Dear Friends and Family,

We wish all of you are staying healthy and safe as we all navigate our way through a strange and different world.

Here in Myanmar we still face a current wave of Omicron sweeping through the country and the beginning of the 2^nd year an unstable political situation.

We had difficulties securing a new location for Sprouting Seeds Learning Centre here in downtown Kalaw, but finally found a new location to rent in the beginning of January.

We are fortunate to have found a beautiful new building with lots of potential for our café and training centre.

Internship Program and Our New Location
We got moved in during the month of January and started the Internship program again in February after everything stopping for almost 2 years due to the Covid 19 pandemic.

We have 5 interns living and training with us here at the centre for a minimum of 3 months. During their time they are managing and learning everything about running the café, bakery and eco shop.

The interns are also taking time to work at Whispering Earth Living and Learning Centre, our 17 acre training centre in the village, where they are learning all about natural building and natural plasters, farming and also running a youth camp for children from the local village.

We are so thankful to be settled once again and start to work in training once again. We hope the political situation will get easier, as well as the world health situation.

Your support means so much to us, especially during these continuing challenging times!

We look forward to sharing more developments with you over the next few months.

The small shop in front of main cafe building

Small shop at cafe

Small garden space between buildings

Yoga studio and roof top cafe sitting

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Nov 17, 2021
25th Report for Sprouting Seeds Learning Center

By Jim Connor | Project Leader

Our new training centre, ready for restoration!

Dear Friends and Family,

We trust you are all doing well and staying safe and healthy as we head into cold weather in many places around the world.

As you may have read in our last report, it continues to be a challenging time here in Myanmar with the covid situation slowly easing up at the moment, but a political situation that does not provide much positive hope for the future.

You also may remember that we are being forced out of the café where we have been for the last 3 years. We are very sad to be leaving this place.

We fortunately have found a new place which, as usual needs a great deal of tender loving care! We have just been able to start cleaning the outside of the property. With a large garden space, several old fruit trees including guava, avocado, mango and pears we are excited to start to do our design work!

The inside of the building will also need much care, as the building has not been cared for or lived in for many, many years. Scrubbing, cleaning, painting and lots of design work, we hope to transform this old building into our new training centre in the next month!

As the rains are slowing down and the cold winter weather approaches, we hope to be able to move into the building as soon as possible and start our project once again. With our aim to open around the new year, we are looking at all new programs and products to fit with the changing times here in Myanmar.

We want to thank you all for your support, especially during these extremely challenging times we all face here in Myanmar. We look forward to a safer and healthier time when we may all meet each other face to face. We hope this time is not far off!

Wishing you all a safe and healthy time!

Overgrown after many years of neglect.

After just a few days work, looking better.

A lovely garden and views into downtown Kalaw

Lot of space for designing the new training centre

Huge garden with potential for lots of design work

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