Mohinga in Prague
Yesterday, we marked the 5th anniversary of the organization Burma Center Prague since its official registration at the municipal court in Prague with a special event. For me the work for Burma has started in 2004 at Amnesty International with a campaign for a Burmese prisoner of conscience who, fortunately, was released even before we [...]
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 spending six months living together in the asylum center in usti nad labem, the 40-odd refugees who arrived in summer last year will soon move to their new homes in several towns across the czech republic.
with one exception, each family will move to a town where they will be the only burmese family. [...]
The ultimate benchmark for truly devoted Burma campaigners: getting up before dawn to catch the train to a day-long event in Northern Bohemia. You don’t even have time to sniff at your coffee before running out into the cold night.
Thanks to not less devoted partners on the Ústí side, at the Faculty [...]
this latest post comes to you from prague as i wasn’t able to write before leaving delhi – too much food and drink during a meal on our last night in delhi, courtesy of our hosts, left me feeling ill for two days. but let me now share with you the events of our last [...]
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
