Buy local crafts and give back to local artisans...
HLA DAY is a social enterprise with the goal to improve the lives of small producers. It works with Myanmar artisans, disadvantaged groups and local small businesses to design, develop and sell quality handicrafts with a contemporary twist.
This store offers a sustainable market, business and design training to support the livelihoods of producers, many of whom struggle to overcome disability, exclusion and poverty.
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Creative local cuisine and training center for underprivileged youth...
LinkAge is a social enterprise training restaurant founded in 2012, thanks to the French Government’s Human Rights Prize by a young Myanmar woman named Khin, to help young street people aged 17-22 years old to learn skills so they can work, earn a living and live full, independent lives.
LinkAge trains them for a year in cooking and table waiting skills while they run a restaurant offering good quality local food in the downtown area of Yangon. At the end of the training year, LinkAge helps to the young people to find a good job if they wish to.
Support Mary Chapman deaf school...
The Mary Chapman School for the Deaf in Dagon County was founded by an English woman in 1920. It is a private institute and does not benefit from any state aid, depending entirely on donations and humanitarian aid. In addition to teaching deaf and mute children aged 5 to 18, it is a vocational training center for teachers of the deaf.
Currently, the school has about 300 students from 12 different ethnic groups and 4 religions (Buddhists, Christians, Muslims and Hindus) including about thirty full-time residents. There are also ten young trainee teachers who help children learn jobs such as sewing, tailoring, knitting, embroidery, PC use, bookbinding, cooking, hairdressing, manicure. pedicure and Shiatsu massage (one of their specialty)
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