Hand to Hand Charity - Myanmar

Brief Impact Report  Bamboo Delight Summer Youth Camp 2025 10.6.2025 The Summer Youth Camp has finally completed for the 2025 academic year in three months - March, April and May. The camp was offered on both offline and online formats for young leaders in Inle and Nyaung Shwe as well as across the country. This year, the program admitted four female young leaders from outside of Nyaung Shwe, specifically, Pekon, Taunggyi and Mandalay.  The total number of young leaders this year impacted was 40 - 16 seniors and 24 juniors . The totally impacted is now 195 young leaders in four years of 2022-2025, from a total of 19 villages and 8 townships across Myanmar. We held our graduation both online and offline for our students and three outstanding students were awarded 'Most Active Award', 'Most Outstanding Award' and 'Best Personality Award' for each class.  This year, we would like to pay sincere gratitude to and congratulate our Youth Leaders on leading the proj...

Bamboo Delight Community Campions  31.5.2025 Hand to Hand Charity is pleased to honour the following community leaders for their selfless community contributions towards Bamboo Delight Community and beyond in Myanmar. These awards are granted in honour of their commitment, dedication, and resilience in positively contributing towards the better good of underprivileged and marginalized communities in need.  *********************************************************************************** Roll of Honour Sue (Yee Yee Minn)   Lifetime Community Legacy Award Recipient Sue is awarded for her lifelong community service towards communities in Nyaung Shwe and Inle Lake since 2013 when she initiated her self-funded community library and summer school. Using her business profits from her cooking school, she started supporting the education of neighbouring children and families from her summer school and all-year-long library. Today, her community service has lasted for 12 years c...

Urgent Appeal for Donations – Inle Earthquake Recovery Campaign 19 April, 2025  We are calling for donations to support the Inle Region Earthquake Recovery Campaign . If you would like to donate, please message us via email: handtohandcharity.myanmar@gmail.com or contact Sue directly via her social media platforms. We also invite organizations that are interested in collaborating to join us.  Our beloved Inle Lake is among the many areas severely affected by the earthquake. As the emergency relief phase—providing essential food, clean water, and basic supplies—comes to an end, we are now entering the reconstruction phase. Many homes have been lost, and we must rebuild before the rainy season arrives , which poses additional danger as the lake will rise, threatening the safety of the locals. For our first Inle Earthquake Recovery Campaign , we aim to rebuild 10 bamboo homes  for a 4-member family, estimated to cost around 40 lakhs MMK each (approximately $1,000) , totaling...

  Buy Sue's Cookbook and Donate to Inle Earthquake Victims!  Inle Lake was severely hit on March 28th and more than 1,000 houses were destroyed, and over 100 villages are in need of assistance. We, Sue and her team, are helping as much as we can.  Sue decided to sell her cookbook to get funds for victims and provide necessary assistance such as food, temporary homes, drinking water and clothes.  Please buy Sue's cookbook named "Cooking with Sue: A Taste of Myanmar Cuisine" by Bamboo Delight Cooking School, based in Inle Lake, Nyaung Shwe township, Shan State in Myanmar. The profits will go directly to supporting earthquake victims in Inle Lake.  Every copy sold will make a positive impact here.  Cooking with Sue: A Taste of Myanmar Cuisine is available on all Amazon marketplaces in paperback, hardcover and Kindle.  US:  Order at Amazon UK:  Order at Amazon If you'd like to place a larger order, gift copies to friends and family, sell the boo...

Buy Sue's Cookbook and Support her Charity!  We are selling our first-ever cookbook by Sue, named "Cooking with Sue: A Taste of Myanmar Cuisine" by Bamboo Delight Cooking School, based in Inle Lake, Nyaung Shwe township, Shan State in Myanmar. Book Cover: Cooking with Sue Each copy sold contributes Hand to Hand Charity and its community projects such as Bamboo Delight Library, Summer School and Summer Youth Camp, Eco-Warriors and Sunday Youths' Corner. The profits will also support food and essential supplies to families in the neighborhoods in Inle Lake and Nyaung Shwe township. Every copy sold makes a positive impact here.  To give you a little taste, here is a sneak peek inside the book! Get your copy now on Amazon and make positive impacts with us. Order here:  US: Order at Amazon UK: Order at Amazon For more information, please contact Sue directly through her social media channels or email us at handtohandcharity.myanmar@gmail.com.

Fundraising for Bamboo Delight Summer Youth Camp 2025 This year, we are fundraising for Bamboo Delight Summer Youth Camp 2025 as the fourth year of project. Given by-choice non registration status of our organization 'Hand to Hand Charity' since 2013, we cannot hold our fundraising campaign for our project on fundraising platforms yet. So, we are launching our first-ever internal fundraising campaign on our website.  We are fundraising $4,600 (or) 200 Lakhs for a total of 60 young people and leaders and  a duration of three months.  Bamboo Delight Summer Youth Camp is a three-month program held annually from March to May, designed to empower young people aged 10-25. Participants receive intensive English proficiency classes, general music courses and musical instrument training as well as trainings in leadership, 21st-century skills, social sciences to enhance their educational and professional growth. This year, we are introducing our specialized courses in Leadership,...

  Call for Applications from Shan State for Bamboo Delight Summer Youth Camp 2025  This is the application form for Digital Edition - Bamboo Delight Summer Youth Camp 2025. Only applicants from Shan State are eligible to apply for the admission to summer youth camp.  Our project is a Diana-award winning project, led by Sayar Matt and Founder Sue. Started in 2022, the project has impacted a total of 155 youth leaders and supported several alumni-led community initiatives. Read our impact report here.  Bamboo Delight Summer Youth Camp in 2023 The program primarily serves young people aged 10-25 in Nyaung Shwe Township, Inle Lake, and surrounding areas. In 2025 this year, we are expanding our impacts to Shan State and will recruit additional youth leaders for online format only. But oustanding students from Shan will be invited to attend graduation ceremony at our Bamboo Delight School in Nyaung Shwe, Inle Lae in late May if funding allows.  Please read our proj...

Impact Report and Successful Completion of 200 Trees Planting Challenge  19.11.2024 Minn Myoh Minn Oo 200 Trees Planting Challenge, hosted by Eco-Warriors Nyaung Shwe, was successfully completed on 16th November, 2024. A total of 112 participants from 11 villages in Nyaung Shwe township, Shan State from Myanmar joined the challenge at Shwe Lin Pan village near Inle Lake. Participants included registered Eco-warriors, parents and local individuals within the township. The event started at 7:30 am in the morning and ended at 1:00 PM, including travel, planting and eating lunches together.  EcoWarriors at the Challenge  The objectives were to promote environmental awareness of trees and green spaces in the neighbourhood, to foster climate resilience and prevent flash floods in nearby villages around Inle Lake and to build a community of Tree-Warriors through this activity. This activity is really important as the township and villages near Inle Lake experienced the biggest f...

"200 PLANTS CHALLENGE AND NEXT GENERATIONS" 19.11.2024 စိုင်းဝေထွန်း ( Sai Wai Tun) First Prize Winner, Content Challenge  200 Trees Planting Challenge 2024 မင်္ဂလာပါ။ ဒီနေ့ ဝေမျှပေးသွားမယ့် အကြောင်းအရာတွေကတော့ Nov 16, 2024 မှာ Eco Warriors Nyaung Shwe မှ လူငယ်ခေါင်းဆောင်တွေ တာဝန်ယူဦးဆောင်ပြီး ကျင်းပခဲ့ကြတဲ့ 200 Trees Planting Challenge အကြောင်း၊ ဒီနေ့ Event လေးကနေ ရရှိလေ့လာခဲ့တဲ့ အတွေ့အကြုံ အသစ်တွေနှင့် ဒီနေ့ Activity လေးရဲ့ ရည်ရွယ်ချက်တို့ကို ဝေမျှပေးသွားမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ပထမဦးဆုံး အနေနှင့် ကျွန်တော်တို့ရဲ့ Event အကြောင်းကို Sharing လုပ်ပေးသွားမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ် ။ ဒီ အစီအစဉ်လေးကတော့ ဖော်ပြခဲ့တဲ့ အတိုင်းဘဲ Hand To Hand Charity မှ Youth Leaders တွေ ကိုယ်တိုင် အစအဆုံး စီစဉ်ကျင်းပခဲ့တဲ့ ပွဲလေးပါ။ Ecowarrior carrying Plants လုပ်ငန်းဆောင်တာတွေအတွက် လိုအပ်တဲ့ ပစ္စည်းပစ္စယတွေ ဝယ်ယူတာက အစ Filming ပိုင်းအထိ ပါဝင်အားဖြည့် ကူညီပေးထားကြပါတယ်။ ပထမဦးဆုံးအကြိမ် ဖြစ်တဲ့အတွက် အဆင်မပြေမှုတွေလည်း ရှိခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ဒါပေမဲ့ ကျွန်တော်တို့ရဲ့ Youth De...