Mohinga in Prague
Thanks to the help of Carolina from Juxta Design who donated her time and expertise, we now have professional banners for EcoBurma. The banners look awesome! It was exciting to see these four pieces develop, and I was glad that the cooperation with far-away San Francisco worked [...]
Finally we are able to launch the 2011 round of our microgrant program. Please check out the projects at microgrants.burma-center.org.
For a grassroots group run by Burmese refugees in Delhi or Mizoram, a few hundred dollars can mean the difference between dreaming of a needed project or launching it. These [...]
This July, Sabe and I headed back to India to do some work with local Burmese regufee organizations there. During our microgrant pilot program in 2010, during which we gave microgrants to these grassroots organizations to run small projects, we noticed that many of the organizations’ members had few project management skills. So we decided, [...]
After the trip of two team members to India in July, we are now adapting the website for the new microgrants. While we still need some time to enter all the information, you can already check out the list of projects here. (Smaller editorial changes may occur here and there )
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Recently, the leading Burmese opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD) announced that it had revised its position on tourism. While the party had discouraged all tourism to Burma for decades, it is now prepared to welcome responsible travelers who are aware of the political implications of their visits and who behave responsibly.
On 23 September 2010, the Burma Center Prague transfered donations of 100,078.00 Czech crowns to Indian Rupees and handed the money over to the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO). CHRO decided to facilitate the distribution this time in a more remote area, in the Kanpetlet township, Chin State. In this area, there are [...]
As some of you may have already noticed, we are working intensively on a new project, which you can find at burmablog.net. Like many other projects, we started from private funding after having identified the need. The question of funding is not yet solved and like our
Our micro-grant program has finished end of last year, but one announcement is still overdue: The organization Freelance Media Forum has returned their grant after they eventually have had to confirm that an implementation of their project is not possible by end of December. Working conditions in Northeast India [...]
News updates on Burma- Myanmar’s grim, unfinished reform: Hundreds of political inmates languish in remote prisons May 9, 2012 The Wahsington Post
- A litany of abuses--the torture and trial of Phyo Wai Aung May 8, 2012 Asian Human Rights Commission
- Myanmar Junta’s Penguins Obscure 64 Million in Blackout May 8, 2012 Bloomberg
