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The Peace and Development Initiative (PDI) works to build positive peace in Rakhine State, Myanmar. As part of their mission, they are taking taking a cohort of Rakhine, pre-college students to visit other youth groups in different regions of Myanmar. This is an important piece of PDI's mission to foster peaceful relationships between different ethnic groups in Myanmar.
Help PDI build peace in Rakhine State by donating today. For, $3500 USD, the trip will become a reality.
Read on below for more details about the project.
Overview of Peace and Development Initiative (Kintha)
The Peace and Development Initiative (Kintha) was founded in 2013 in response to the deepening religious and ethnic divisions occurring throughout Rakhine State. Our projects focus on social integration through sports activities, storytelling and raising awareness through civic education training. Activities began building trust not only between communities in conflict, but also between community members and project staff. Through established networks, Kintha is strategically positioned to deepen activities that will contribute towards integration of communities, strengthening cooperation and building peaceful relationships.
Who are we?
Akyab Institute (AI) is a new 2017 PDI -Kintha initiative in response the increasing need for the program that provide youth from Rakhine State who are lack of knowledge, skills and confidence to access educational and vocational trainings opportunities to achieve their personal including academic and professional goals.
The institute aims to develop a younger generation of Rakhine State from Local and grassroots change makers who commence civic initiatives in their respective communities. The institute provides practical skills through leadership capacity building, work skills, civic education and enhancing social, political, cultural and economic awareness of youth at the local and grassroots level of Rakhine State.
Our Project
To accomplish our students' classroom learning we are planning to have an excursion so that students will have opportunities to explore and study diverse communities in Karen State. Our plan is to visit similar youth initiatives programs in Hpa-An and Southeast Karen State (Program in Hpa-An EGG,) and explore rural life in Karen State during a home-stay experience in nearby village. Students will have chances to build warm relationship with other young leaders and change makers, observe profoundly different cultures and ways of living, esteem diversity, cooking food, increased knowledge by sharing and exchanging the ideas, networking and discover background history of the place, and building teamwork and ask reflective questions about who they are, where they come from and what connects us.
Estimated cost of the trip (AI Batch -2 students)
The estimated cost of the trip for 30 students and teachers will be around $3,500 USD. We have already raised a small amount through local fundraising activities but we need your help to raise the rest of the money. While our goal is to cover the costs of the trip any additional funds we raise will be used to support experiential learning activities once they return to Sittwe; activities that help students to transfer what they have learned about themselves and their country to their lives at home.
Why is it important
Akyab Institute opened in August 2017 with a class of thirty young motivated students from Rakhine state for one year immersive program (9 months in classroom learning, and 3 months internship in other CSOs). The students have very limited experiences of other cultures and different places. Most of them have never been outside apart from their home town.
To learn and understand the cultural diversity is crucial part of their thinking toward social cohesion in PDI’s goal. There are valuable purposes of doing this exchange trip beyond having fun. Those purposes mainly focus on students’ social, educational, and professional development. There are certain advantages that can be rationally expected from this exchange trip. Those beneficial themes can be categorized into three: program, education, and personal benefits.
Program’s Benefit
This exchange exposure trip will help to develop stronger relationship and networks between the youth and education initiatives visited. The newly networked organizations will be able to share educational resources, trainings, and information regarding students’ future studies, scholarship, internship, and work opportunities. Teachers will have the opportunity to observe different teaching techniques and classroom management styles.
Educational Benefit
The trip will introduce the students to new cultures, landscape environments and history background. Students will gain the real-life understanding of a Non-Rakhine culture while at the same time having the opportunity to reflect upon and share their own culture with others. Students will learn new ways to support and lead change grassroots change in their communities. Students will learn to value of the process of discovery; how to learn by doing, asking questions and of not being afraid of the new and unusual.
Personal Benefit
Through expanding their social sphere and stepping out of their comfort zone, students will gain maturity, tolerance, and socializing skills. Students will foster friendships and relationships that will keep them connected to voices outside of Rakhine State and their home communities. Students will develop valuable networks that will support their future academic, professional and personal goals. Students will strengthen their interpersonal skills and deepen their own self-awareness through communication with new people. Students will learn to be flexible and adapt to new environments; a skill that will help them overcome future personal and professional challenges.
Contact information
Any single amount of your donation or any contribution will be desperately helpful to our school exposure trip.
If you live in Myanmar and would like to make a local bank transfer please contact Sumon Shel through the email attached to this fundraiser.
Thank you for your support! If you would like to know about the detail of our exposure trip or any other PDI project please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Help PDI build peace in Rakhine State by donating today. For, $3500 USD, the trip will become a reality.
Read on below for more details about the project.
Overview of Peace and Development Initiative (Kintha)
The Peace and Development Initiative (Kintha) was founded in 2013 in response to the deepening religious and ethnic divisions occurring throughout Rakhine State. Our projects focus on social integration through sports activities, storytelling and raising awareness through civic education training. Activities began building trust not only between communities in conflict, but also between community members and project staff. Through established networks, Kintha is strategically positioned to deepen activities that will contribute towards integration of communities, strengthening cooperation and building peaceful relationships.
Who are we?
Akyab Institute (AI) is a new 2017 PDI -Kintha initiative in response the increasing need for the program that provide youth from Rakhine State who are lack of knowledge, skills and confidence to access educational and vocational trainings opportunities to achieve their personal including academic and professional goals.
The institute aims to develop a younger generation of Rakhine State from Local and grassroots change makers who commence civic initiatives in their respective communities. The institute provides practical skills through leadership capacity building, work skills, civic education and enhancing social, political, cultural and economic awareness of youth at the local and grassroots level of Rakhine State.
Our Project
To accomplish our students' classroom learning we are planning to have an excursion so that students will have opportunities to explore and study diverse communities in Karen State. Our plan is to visit similar youth initiatives programs in Hpa-An and Southeast Karen State (Program in Hpa-An EGG,) and explore rural life in Karen State during a home-stay experience in nearby village. Students will have chances to build warm relationship with other young leaders and change makers, observe profoundly different cultures and ways of living, esteem diversity, cooking food, increased knowledge by sharing and exchanging the ideas, networking and discover background history of the place, and building teamwork and ask reflective questions about who they are, where they come from and what connects us.
Estimated cost of the trip (AI Batch -2 students)
The estimated cost of the trip for 30 students and teachers will be around $3,500 USD. We have already raised a small amount through local fundraising activities but we need your help to raise the rest of the money. While our goal is to cover the costs of the trip any additional funds we raise will be used to support experiential learning activities once they return to Sittwe; activities that help students to transfer what they have learned about themselves and their country to their lives at home.
Why is it important
Akyab Institute opened in August 2017 with a class of thirty young motivated students from Rakhine state for one year immersive program (9 months in classroom learning, and 3 months internship in other CSOs). The students have very limited experiences of other cultures and different places. Most of them have never been outside apart from their home town.
To learn and understand the cultural diversity is crucial part of their thinking toward social cohesion in PDI’s goal. There are valuable purposes of doing this exchange trip beyond having fun. Those purposes mainly focus on students’ social, educational, and professional development. There are certain advantages that can be rationally expected from this exchange trip. Those beneficial themes can be categorized into three: program, education, and personal benefits.
Program’s Benefit
This exchange exposure trip will help to develop stronger relationship and networks between the youth and education initiatives visited. The newly networked organizations will be able to share educational resources, trainings, and information regarding students’ future studies, scholarship, internship, and work opportunities. Teachers will have the opportunity to observe different teaching techniques and classroom management styles.
Educational Benefit
The trip will introduce the students to new cultures, landscape environments and history background. Students will gain the real-life understanding of a Non-Rakhine culture while at the same time having the opportunity to reflect upon and share their own culture with others. Students will learn new ways to support and lead change grassroots change in their communities. Students will learn to value of the process of discovery; how to learn by doing, asking questions and of not being afraid of the new and unusual.
Personal Benefit
Through expanding their social sphere and stepping out of their comfort zone, students will gain maturity, tolerance, and socializing skills. Students will foster friendships and relationships that will keep them connected to voices outside of Rakhine State and their home communities. Students will develop valuable networks that will support their future academic, professional and personal goals. Students will strengthen their interpersonal skills and deepen their own self-awareness through communication with new people. Students will learn to be flexible and adapt to new environments; a skill that will help them overcome future personal and professional challenges.
Contact information
Any single amount of your donation or any contribution will be desperately helpful to our school exposure trip.
If you live in Myanmar and would like to make a local bank transfer please contact Sumon Shel through the email attached to this fundraiser.
Thank you for your support! If you would like to know about the detail of our exposure trip or any other PDI project please don’t hesitate to contact us.