NEWS
Latest news from our projects: stories, numbers and successes
URMILA, A STORY OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
To celebrate the international day against violence on women we want to share with Urmila’s story, a story of strength and empowerment, a big example of women’s emancipation, coming from a slum in Jaipur where she works with our Navchetan’s children with disabilities....
COMMUNITY BASED INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT (CBID)
CBID is a development strategy which aims to ensure that people with disabilities are respected and included in their communities on an equal basis in all areas of life. It is people centred, community driven and human rights based. CBID is an essential contribution...
ANGANWADI CENTERS, A COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Thanks to the collaboration with the Anganwadi centers in slums we are able to grant a better future to the children with disabilities supported by our Navchetan program, in Jaipur, India. Anganwadi centers were started by Indian government in 1975 in order to fight...
AARTI: AT THE SERVICE OF THE MOST FRAGILE
Aarti works with children with disabilities in our Navchetan center, in a slum in Jaipur, in India. She chose this job because, as she said, it allows her to be at the service of the neediest people. We report here her interview as she explains all miracles she was...
SACHIN WALKING ON HIS OWN!
Sachin lives in Jawahar Nagar slum and when we found him in 2019 he couldn't even sit alone or grab objects, thanks to our Navchetan program he can now walk on his own and he has a lot of new friends! Sachin was born as the firstborn child of Mr.Kishan and Suguna devi...
NEW DISABILITY PROGRAM IN DALA
Thanks to the collaboration with the Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, we were able to start up a Community Based Inclusive Development program in Dala, Yangon outskirts. Here the story told by Teresa Sassu, their coordinator. The collaboration with Don Carlo Gnocchi...
LAND GRABBING IN MYANMAR, OUR AGRO-FORESTATION PROJECT AT THE SENATE
Last Tuesday, June the 28th, our desk officer Francesca Benigno explained the Myanmar case study during the seminar “Land owners” organized at the Council of the Italian Republic for the presentation of the V report about Land Grabbing in the world, edited by Focsiv....
A BIT OF HOPE FOR DISPLACED CHILDREN
Since February 2022 until today 211 displaced children in Taunggyi had the chance to attenda school again and to re-gain a bit of hope. Here some updates from our project coordinator of “Do Giaong – Our School”. “Initially established as a rehabilitation center for...
THE GOLDEN BEEHIVE AT SAN SIRO STADIUM!
"The future starts here!" Last saturday, archbishop Mario Delpini met all children waiting for the Confirmation in San Siro Stadium, during this meeting FOM (Fondazione Oratori Milanesi) decided to introduce everybody to one of our projects in Myanmar: the Golden...
THE GOLDEN BEEHIVE FINALLY STARTED!
"The future starts here!" Again big news from Yangon! Do you remember the new educational project in a slum of Insein? Yesterday was the first official school-day at our Golden Beehive! It's a small early childhood education centre for children aged among 3 and 4...
TOGETHER FOR MYANMAR AT PIME CENTER IN MILAN
Last saturday, April the 9th, at PIME center in Milan we lived a day dedicated to Myanmar named "Together for Myanmar". Participation has been higher than foreseen and Myanmar community was very happy and satisfied for the attention paid. A lot of events have been...
THE GOLDEN BEEHIVE IN A SLUM OF INSEIN
"Our future starts here!" Great news from Yangon! We’re starting up a new education project in a slum of Insein. We are building a small early childhood education centre for children aged 4 years old, in order to start a work in pre-scholar education and, at the same...
MAUNG HTOO’S SECRET WISH
This is the story of Maung Htoo: an 18-year-old boy with TEV who thanks to New Humanity has been able to live a dignified life and find an employment for his future. Maung Htoo is an 18-year-old boy suffering from a congenital malformation: clubfoot. His family...
UPDATES FROM THE SHAN STATE OF MYANMAR
The promotion of a sustainable and inclusive model of economic and social growth in Myanmar's Shan State continues! Located in eastern Myanmar, Shan State occupies about a quarter of Myanmar's total land area and is the largest of all the states and regions in the...
“DO GIAONG” – THE FREEDOM TO EDUCATE ONESELF
Thursday 3 February 2022 was a big day for hundreds of children in Taunggyi: a primary school for displaced children aged between 6 and 18 was inaugurated! The recent political crisis in Myanmar, besides creating a climate of insecurity, is exacerbating the poverty of...
RONAK’S REVENGE ON LIFE
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it (Charles R. Swindoll) This is the story of Ronak: a child suffering from a form of disability who, thanks to our Navchetan centre and the support and therapy received from our rehabilitation workers, has seen...
DAYAMIT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: TESTIMONIES FROM THE FIELD
In the southern suburbs of Yangon, in the Dala district, we started a new project in May 2021. How is it going? Tun, Tida, Win, Tan, Zaw and Min tell us how their lives have changed. The project is located in a district where more than half of the youths between the...
NANG WIN, BUILDING HER FUTURE
“Schools are closed, but thanks to New Humanity I can still learn and build my own future!” Here the story of Nang Win, who, in spite of schools’ closing due to Covid-19, managed to attend vocational trainings organized by NHI and she’s now dreaming of being a...
SHUBHAM: FROM DISGRACE TO RESOURCE FOR HIS FAMILY!
This is the story of Shubham: our Navchetan program completely changed his life and opened new horizons in less than three years, now his family no further looks at him as a disgrace, but as a resource! Shubham was born in 2012, in the slum of Jawahar Nagar in Jaipur,...
DAYAMIT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: NEW CENTER FOR YOUTH OPENED IN DALA
In this time of difficulties and when the covid pandemic is trying to make its way back among the Burmese population, what happens in Dala, on the southern outskirts of Yangon, seems the perfect cure for any possible distress. Here, young boys and girls are given a...
HONOR OF THE ORDER OF THE STAR OF ITALY TO OUR COUNTRY DIRECTOR LIVIO MAGGI
If June 28th, 2021 in the morning was a day like any other, it certainly had surprises in store that made it a memorable day for the history of New Humanity in Myanmar. Yesterday in fact, our Country Director Livio Maggi was awarded the Honor of the Order of the Star...
THE STORY OF NAMAN FROM JAIPUR SLUM
After telling different stories from Myanmar, now it’s India time: we asked our staff in Jaipur to tell us the story of Naman, a boy who is taking part into Navchetan Community Based Rehabilitation program. Here is his story! “Naman is a 11 year old boy, first...
THE PINK SIDE OF NEW HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL
Through the most different places, offices, indian slums or burmese villages, there are several women and mothers working tirelessly together with New Humanity International. Today we want to tell you about the “pink side” of New Humanity, that is alongside women and...
U ANGELO: STORY OF A BURMESE FARMER
Today we tell you the story of U Angelo, a farmer who has been able to improve the living conditions of his family and community thanks to the collaboration with the rural development project of New Humanity International in eastern Shan State. Here's what he shared...
TOGETHER FOR MYANMAR POPULATION
The recent political crisis that Myanmar is going through is not only creating an atmosphere of uncertainty but also exacerbating poverty conditions of the whole population. In a country where more than 1.620.000 people (3 out of 10) used to live already under poverty...
COVID19: IT’S EDUCATION EMERGENCY
For a year now, the covid 19 health crisis has affected each country and we all have felt the consequences on our skin. To the health crisis, however, the educational crisis has been added. What does that mean? It means that if we gave the floor to a...
“I’M NOT LIKE BEFORE, NOW I WANT TO LEARN”: STORIES OF CHANGE FROM NGHET AWE SAN CENTER
In just six months L.H. feels different. After years of escapes from three different schools due to a total lack of motivation to study, in the center Nghet Awe San he has found the right push to take his life into his own hands: now he wants to roll up his sleeves to...
A MATTER OF NUMBERS
What happened in KENG TUNG and the near villages in 2020? Simple, it's a matter of numbers. And this was possible because New Humanity local staff managed to carry on projects of water infrastructure, training, support for families with disabled children, agriculture...
CBR: WHAT IS THIS AND WHAT HAS NEW HUMANITY TO DO WITH IT?
Since 1995 in Cambodia, 2005 in Myanmar and 2016 in India, New Humanity chose to promote inclusion of people with disability strengthenin all development’s aspects of the person inserted in its context and community. For this reason all our projects follow the...
NEW HUMANITY’S RESPONSE TO COVID-19 EMERGENCY
Since COVID-19 showed up in Myanmar and India, our local staff supported our beneficiaries in many ways. Covid-19 spread hadn’t only health consequences, but the biggest impact in our project’s context was the socio-economic consequence of local lockdowns....
NEW HUMANITY CHANGED OUR LIFE!
My name is U Ah Jone. I live in Khun Sai (Upper) Village under Loi Mwe Village Tract, in Kyaing Tong township. In my family we are eight: my wife and our 6 children. I am a Li Shaw ethnicity. We grow three acres of paddy field. The paddy fields are located six miles...
NEW LOCK-DOWN IN OUR PROJECTS’ COUNTRIES
Unfortunately Covid-19 pandemic is not improving in Myanmar and India, at the opposite the situation is now worsening. In Myanmar this week the lock-down re-started even stricter in Yangon region, where we have our central office. Our country director, Livio Maggi, is...
CHIT NAING, TOGETHER TOWARDS AUTONOMY!
Chit Naing is a 3 year old boy with down syndrome, he has a developmental delay in cognitive skills and lives in Kon Lon village tract, in Taunggyi district. Our physiotherapist, Ju Ju, visited his family for the first time at September 2019 and since then he improved...
ANNUAL REPORT 2019
Did you know that during 2019 we supported, thanks to your help, 2134 children and we trained 3767 adults with our projects in Myanmar and India? This successes, and more else that we’re showing in our annual report, wouldn’t be possible without the support of all...
CREATING NETWORKS DURING LOCKDOWN
The whole Myanmar, last month, has been in lock-down. Our staff wasn’t allowed to enter any center, that’s why we had to transform our support in different ways: food distribution, provision of hygienic materials and training at distance. Since May the 13th until the...
COVID-19: EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN MYANMAR
Many people, after last developments in south-eastern Asia, came back in Myanmar from Thailand and China, where they were for job. The Ministry of Health published on 5th April the amount of those people: 45.498 burmese people came back during last two weeks of March....
IN INDIA STARVATION MAY OVERTAKE CORONAVIRUS: OUR RESPONSE TO LOCK-DOWN CONSEQUENCES
In India the lock-down started at March, the 25th with 519 confirmed cases. This lock-down started suddenly, with only 4 hours left to people to organize themselves. Many people in India, especially in big cities, work on daily labor and in few days they really run...
WATER: NOWADAYS PRECIOUS MORE THAN EVER
The project for water and sanitation in Yang Kha and Yaung Nan villages, Kyaing Tung's township, is not stopping, and they shouldn't stop because nowadays this kind of projects are showing their crucial role. "We've always worked in rural areas to grant access to...
MYANMAR: SUPPORT DURING LOCKDOWN
As in many other countries, also in Myanmarthe lockdown has started already since some week. Also here schools have been first to close, followed by different centers and agencies. Also villages locked down, roads are closed and people aren't allowed to go out. Until...
PASSION AND LOVE CAN TRULY IMPROVE LIFE CONDITIONS
I am Ma Hlaing, I’m working as a Community Based Rehabilitator (CBR) with New Humanity Myanmar since 2005. I completed CBR course at Youth Training Center, recognized by Department of Social Welfare, in Yangon in November 2004. Immediately after that I started working...
COVID-19: EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN INDIA
Here few words from our local program manager: “At present lock down is until 14th April. The extension of it depends on the situation of COVID 19 spread. In daily reporting there is high jump in the number of people infected. So the next few days are very crucial....
COVID-19 PREVENTION AND PARENTING IN MYANMAR
At the beginning of this month, our Program Manager for education, Senglat Ja, gave parenting education training in 5 villages near to Taunggyi and Kyaing Tong, in Shan State. At these trainings attended 333 people and they learnt topics as: importance of...