Building Assets will face further challenges such as Myanmar’s regular natural disasters and damages to schools caused by conflict, and provide new local solutions within the new schools’ construction guidelines. This is how we aim to make education more inclusive and accessible, as well as safe, child-friendly and sustainable.
Opening doors for Burmese children
For Burmese students, moving beyond rote learning can open the door to many opportunities. But in too many rural villages there are no schools, or only primary schools, so children have limited or no access to education. When violence and conflict breaks out, the instability makes it difficult to establish spaces of learning. The data and numbers are much worse in conflict-affected areas, where displacement, extreme poverty, outdated teaching, and discrimination have led to only about 8% of primary school students reaching high school.
Schools can provide a safe and peaceful environment during conflict, and a safety net for children whose lives have been scarred by violence. Although the vast majority of children in Myanmar enroll in primary school, half of them also drop out by th
