Learning Against the Odds
"The classrooms are gone. The textbooks were left behind. But every morning, the children still gather—because the teachers refused to stop teaching."
Armed conflict, military incursions, and airstrikes have shattered education across Karenni State. Schools have been targeted. Families have fled with nothing. Children who should be learning to read are learning instead to recognize the sound of incoming artillery.
And yet, in displacement camps and temporary shelters, in monastery halls and forest clearings, education continues. Teachers who joined the resistance keep teaching. Communities too poor to feed themselves still find ways to gather their children for lessons. Parents who can barely survive still dream of a future where their children can read, can count, can become something more.
What they lack is everything else: exercise books, pens, pencils. Whiteboards. Basic materials that schools everywhere take for granted. This project provides what these communities cannot—the simple tools that make teaching possible.
