New Project for Love a Child Foundation 

The photograph above is of a girl’s dormitory at Seik Phu Taung Monastic Home and School at Kyaikhto, Burma.   The dormitory is the home to thirty girls and is literally falling down.  It has no beds and no mosquito nets:  Two eleven year old girls died of Malaria here in the last monsoon season.  It is a small part of our new ‘Project Cherry.’

Operation Cherry is a project to reconstruct Cherry Dormitory at Seik Phu Taung Monastic Home and School, Kyaikhto, Burma (Myanmar), which is being undertaken by the Love a Child Foundation.  The first phase of the operation is to organize a new water distribution system for the site and the money for this part of the project has now been raised and work is due to begin in the near future.  The reconstruction of Cherry Dormitory (above) is the second phase of four; phases three and four being the reconstruction of two further girl’s dormitories.

Love a Child’s construction team that we have appointed recently in Southern Burma will completely refurbish this dormitory together with the construction of a new was area and two new toilet blocks.  We shall also supply new mosquito nets and bedding for each girl.  The children, aged between eight and sixteen, are mostly from ethnic hill tribes; the majority are orphaned or have lost contact with their families.

The total cost of the whole project is approximiately £17,000 of which £550 has already been raised.

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We have just received a report from Nyi Nyi Pyu that two hundred new girls from Karen State, some as young as five, have just arrived at the home, fleeing a new Burnese army offensive against the Karens.  Most have lost contact with their families.  I cannot imagine how overcrowded the site must be, which makes it even more urgent for us to help these desperate children.

John Margetson, founder - Love a Child Foundation

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