Education
The schools in undeveloped area of our country are not well equipped and not enough in hygienic care mostly by poor water supply and by using not well constructed and maintained toilet. The teachers, teaching equipments and the school furniture are not enough. The teachers have to teach several classes at the same time. The main problem is no mineral drinking water and no electricity.
Since social and educational status is low in some region due to undeveloped condition by many factors in Myanmar, sometimes it is aggravated by natural disaster.eg In the Irrawady Division, Cyclone Nargis destroyed the Ninety-eight percent of all school buildings and many lives in May 2008. So that situation of education level is worsening.
Some children unable to go to school as the parent cannot afford to equip them with school uniforms, books and the children need to work in the field or to go fishing. They have to struggle only for their daily food consumption to survive their difficult life. Most of the children from poor family always depressed of their current life and thought they are in hopeless living.
ACVO will support them to motivate to escape from poverty by trying to be more confidence with their own ability and hopefully to become active students. All young children should have the human rights to attend to school without anxiety.
Information of Rakhine
Rakhine State ( Arakan) is situated on the western coast, it is bordered by Chin State in the north,Magway Division, Bago Division and Ayeyarwady Division in the east, the Bay of Bengal to the west, and the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh to the northwest. Its location is between latitudes 17°30′ north and 21°30′ north and east longitudes 92°10′ east and 94°50′ east. The Arakan Mountains, which rise to 3,063 metres (10,049 ft) at Victoria Peak. Off the coast of Rakhine State there are some fairly large islands such as Cheduba and Myingun Island. Rakhine State has an area of 36,762 square kilometres (14,194 sq mi).]Rakhine State consists of four districts: Sittwe, Maungdaw, Kyaukphyu and Thandwe. These districts have a total of 17 townships and 1,164 village-tracts. Sittwe is capital.
The main agriculture in the region is Rice (85%). Coconut and nipa palm plantations are also important. The main transporting product to Yangon is from fishing but some is also exported. Wood such as timber, bamboo and fuel wood are the mountains products. Small amounts of inferior-grade crude oil are produced from primitive, shallow, hand-dug wells, but there is yet unexplored potential for petroleum and natural gas production.
Tourism is developed in the ancient royal town Mrauk U and the resorts of Ngapali beach, the major attractions for foreigners, but facilities are still primitive, and the transportation infrastructure is still rudimentary. The airports in Rakhine State are Sittwe Airport,Kyaukpyu Airport and Thandwe Airport.
The electricity supply is low in Rakhine State with consumption of only 30 Megawatt for a state of 3 million people or 1.8% of the country’s total generation capacity. There are three hydropower plants in Saidin, Thahtay Chaung (Shwehlay) and Laymromyit. The three plants together can produce 687 Megawatt but the surplus electricity will be distributed to other states and divisions.
Thandwe, called Sandoway by the British, is a town and major seaport in Rakhine State. It is also a district. Thandwe is said to be at one time the capital of Rakhine State in acient. The district has an area of 3,784 square miles (9,800 km2). It is mostly mountainous.
Ngapali Beach is located 7 kilometers (4 miles) from the Thandwe. . It is the most famous beach in Myanmar because many tourists visit every year as a major destination in Myanmar. Several resorts and hotels are located in Ngapali, such as Sandoway Resort,Ngapali Bay,Bayview Ngapali, Amata Resort, Amazing Ngapali and Amara Ocean etc. & other bungalos, The hotels and tourism helps to provide income for the villigers around Ngapali and other villages also Thandwe. There is also a golf resort nearby.While the road transportation is over 300 miles away from Yangon(17hrs travel) ,the beach is served by Thandwe Airport (45mins travel from Yangon) running with Myanmar’s internal airlines, Myanmar Airways, Air Mandalay, Yangon Airways, Air KBZ and Air Bagan have frequent flights to Thandwe from their destinations.