We aim to provide a happy education, teaching our students to dream and to believe that their dreams will come true with the study and work hard for it. We provide first time experiences, so they can have a taste of how life looks like outside their community. We teach them life skills and soft skills so they have better opportunities in life. All our projects are connected and are part of each other.
About Hand to Hand Charity
Hand to Hand Charity was founded in 2013, along with initially Bamboo Delight Library and Bamboo Delight Summer School, and later Eco-Warriors Group in 2020, Bamboo Delight Summer Youth Camp in 2022 and Sunday Youths' Corner in 2023. Our objectives are to fight for civil rights in communities, to empower youth leaders and to provide an educational platform through civic engagement, education, leadership, environmental spirit and empowerment.
Please read our full booklet of Hand to Hand's current projects here!
Summer School
This is how it all started, in 2013, with 10 children from our street
having classes with our clients from the cooking class that would spend a few
hours of their time while visiting the lake and its surroundings. In 2016, we welcomed our
first long term volunteer teachers and had a bigger group, with around 30
children. In 2017, around 80 children attended summer school. The following
year, we were able to teach 120 children and in 2019, almost 200 students enrolled in our programme. Every year,
the school has become more and more popular as we have been able to offer more
activities, have more volunteers who have shared their skills and teaching
experience with us.
This year, almost 300 students registered, but unfortunately, we had to close down the school after only one week due to the current Covid-19 pandemic. However, we are already planning and organizing ourselves for 2021 to be able to welcome at least 300 students again!!!! Learn here more about this great program and here you can learn how to get involved.
The Bamboo Delight Summer School project was started in 2013 together with Bamboo Delight Library. Every summer, the kids and youths in the neighborhood come to the Summer School and learn English with foreigners who come to Bamboo Delight Cooking School and teach English for free as a token of gratitude to Sue.
Sue founded the Summer School because she wants the kids and youths to be able to speak English fluently, connect with foreigners and improve their education through English.
Summer Youth Camp
Summer Youth Camp has started in 2022 together with Sue and Matt. Sue's sole purpose is to help the children and youths continue their education while public schools are closed due to political crisis. She is desperate for a better and more impactful project for her communities.
The Summer Camp has been successful for 2 years already with the support of Sue's foreign friends and their donations. In the camp, the youths are trained to learn English, Music, Social Sciences, 21st Century Skills and many extra-curricular activities such as Sports and Musical Instrument Play. Every summer, Sue needs financial support to make the project happen for the kids.
School Support
Every year, we support children with school uniforms and school supplies so they can start the new school term with everything they need. This provides tremendous support to their families and great motivation for these children to learn and study hard at school. Every year, we support children in need in our
community, some year we are able to support 10 children, other years 100, depending on how profitable our business is. Some years, friends from
around the world also send us materials and donations so we can help more families.
We try to support children at school as much as possible, especially those who drop out because their families can no longer pay for their education. Every year, many children in Myanmar drop out of school and start to work at a young age to help provide for their families. We pay particular attention to these children and support them during the whole school year until their families can support them again, so they can complete their education. Learn here more about this great program and here you can learn how to get involved.
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| 2020 School Support |
Library
Our library started with the books Sue used to read to learn at home while the other children would go to school. Later during her adult life, she was given a book in English by a foreigner and from that moment, she started learning English and slowly started her own library at home. Now we receive book donations from many people in Myanmar and other countries. So the library today has more than 3,000 titles in English and Myanmar language.
When the Summer School project started, Sue started sharing her books with the children, so they could acquire the reading habit and learn more from these books. In 2019, we started to have reading time, once a week, in the classroom.
In 2020, because of the world pandemic, we started to open our library and lend books to the students. We made library cards so they could borrow a few books and return them after 2 weeks. We also started a small mobile library basket to the local accommodation so that the international guests who could not go back to their home countries and stayed in Nyaung Shwe during lock down could have a pleasant time during their stay in our town. Learn here more about this great program and here you can learn how to get involved.
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| Library in 2020 |
Overall, Bamboo Delight library was opened by Sue together with Bamboo Delight Summer School in 2013. She opened the library to promote reading ability of youths and the education of her communities. She could not finish her schools in her life but she does not want this same issue for the children in her communities. She opened a small cupboard library in the living room at her house in 2013 and now with the support of her foreign friends and donations, the library has become one storey building with over 5,000 books and monthly 100 readers.
Eco Warriors
Since the beginning of the Summer School project, every Friday the students lead by Sue would go to the street where we are located to pick up the trash to keep the road clean. In 2019 we started having bigger activities related to the environment. It became a subject of the Summer School, and we also do clean up activities in different parts of the town along with environmental awareness. In 2020 we created the "Eco-Warriors" program (initially was called Trash Heroes, but later we learned about a different project with this name so we changed), where we selected a group of kids to be in charge and keep the roads clean, the place they are responsible for is near where they live, we also place the trash bin in front of a few homes and they are in charge of it. Learn here more about this great program and here you can learn how to get involved.
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| 1st trash heroes group - 2020 |
2020 World Pandemic - Covid-19
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| Sharing meals during Covid-19 Pandemic 2020 |
Women & Child's Rights
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| First Family Supported - 2020 |
Sunday Youths' Corner
Sunday Youths' Corner is a new project currently run by Sue and youth leaders in the community. Youths and kids gather every Sunday at the Bamboo Delight and share their weekly experiences, feelings and learnings and seek advices from one another. Besides sharing session, they play guitars, and ukelele and sing songs for relaxation and pleasure.
Sue's primary purpose for this project is to help youths and children overcome their daily struggles at public schools and homes and to heal their mental and family problems.