3/3/2024 0 Comments Bringing joy to the childrenOn Saturday 2nd March 2024, Buddhist Essential Support Trust (BEST) made donations to seven more parahita schools benefitting around 900 children who otherwise would not have schooling. A Thai lunch was offered to the teachers from the seven schools. We are grateful to the BEST Myanmar team (Daw Theingi Hlaing Daw Kyilay, Daw San Nwet, U Myo Htut, Daw Ohnmar) and many other friends for their help in identifying the schools and making the donations for us.
One of the recipients included Pyinnyar Shwe Bon Monestic School in south Dagon township led by Dr. Ah Shin Wunna Thiri. This school welcomes around 400 children, supporting them in their scholastic endeavours and providing a safe space for children to grow and to play. “BEST is honoured to have been able to donate to such worthy schools”, says Daw Zarni Win, BEST Trustee.
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10/24/2023 0 Comments The Legacy Lives on... 2023 laureatesBEST Founder, U Nay Win always wanted to help the most deprived and through the U Nay Win Sunshine Memorial Fund, he is still helping to bring a ray of hope to people left furthest behind. The nine laureates of 2023 are from different parts of Myanmar. They include small but needy monasteries but also a few larger ones in Karen, Mon and Shan states as well as in Mandalay and Yangon regions. A total of 15 million kyats was donated on 23rd October 2023 . The 2023 U Nay Win Memorial Fund brought a little ray of sunshine to the lives of over 1000 children! Huge thanks to the team in Myanmar for their help in selecting the 9 Laureates and of course, CONGRATULATIONS ! to the Laureates. 4/9/2023 0 Comments BEST spring donationsDespite some security challenges in the country, BEST Myanmar team was able to make four donations in the spring of 2023 in Latpatan, Mahar Tharddhamma Pankone Monastery (Taung Kote Township), Pa-Auk Taw Ya school (Than Lyin) and the very successful Aung Myin Chan Thar Tharmanay Monestry. (Maw Bi city, Nyaung Pin Thar Yar village). Best Trustee, U Aung Kyaw Johnson Moe and a friend of BEST, U Tin Win travelled to Taungtha township and made two donations in March 2023 to Teik Thit monastery led by U Pantasa (20th March) and Nyana Gonyi monastery led by Ashin Rewata (11th March). Donations for the repair of the Yay Le monastery was made in the previous financial year but the work began this year. We continue to pray for the wellbeing, health and happiness of the beautiful people of Myanmar. Thadu. Thadu. Thadu. 12/25/2022 0 Comments Sunshine through the grey cloudsDespite the grey clouds hovering over Myanmar including unfavourable conditions for travel to make the donations, BEST was able to donate without jeopardising anyone’s safety. In continuing to remember BEST Founder U Nay Win’s life and honour his legacy, we selected 9 schools around Yangon for the U Nay Win Sunshine Memorial Fund benefitting over 2500 children. The Sunshine donations were made on 24th December 2022. CONGRATULATIONS to all the 2022 laureats. 2022 laureats - congratulations!
BEST Founder, U Nay Win always wanted to help the most deprived and through the U Nay Win Sunshine Memorial Fund, he is still helping to bring a ray of hope to those furthest behind. Thadu. Thadu. Thadu. This past year continues to be difficult for Myanmar but after two years of delay due to COVID and other circumstances, we are pleased to inform you that in the past financial year, we were able to make the donations to the winners of the U Nay Win Sunshine Memorial Fund for the years 2020 and 2021. The beautiful ceremony took place at Mahar Thukhita Yama monastery in Than Hlin Myo on Wednesday 30th March 2022 at 11 AM. In 2019 the donation journey took the BEST delegation through rough roads wild rivers and mountainous climbs to reach the needy schools in the Chin State ' one of the more remote ' the poorest and least developed state in Myanmar. For 2020 and 2021, we chose 18 needy schools in the Mawgyun area (Irrawaddy division). Buddhist Essential Support Trust ( BEST ) founder/ the late U Nay Win always wanted to help the most needy even if it meant making difficult journeys to remote places in the country. We are proud to continue his legacy through these donations.
2020 winners of the U Nay Win Sunshine Memorial Fund are monastic schools from 1. Picchimarum 2. Yatana Hman. 3. Tha Pyay Oo. 4. Tal Chaung. 5. Sasanahita Kari. 6. Mahagandaron Dalin 7. Aung Dagun Taing. 8. Maha Bodhi. 9. Ywar Oo 2021 Winners of the U Nay Win Sunshine Memorial Fund are monastic schools from 1. Kyeik Pi Kwin 2. Sasana Rakhita. 3. Dhammacari. 4. Visuddharum. 5. Brahmma Cari. 6. Pannapaarami. 7. Shwe Pyi Aye. 8. Laye Htut. 9. Sirimingala. I would like to express a special gratitude to Sayardaw Doctor Baddanta Seintitar Linkarra and the BEST delegation in Myanmar for making these donations possible. Thadu. Thadu. Thadu. Dear friends This past year has been an extremely difficult year for the world with the COVID pandemic and particularly difficult for Myanmar since the coup of February 2021. The in-person donations we normally do in December/January had to be postponed due to COVID restrictions and with the banking crisis following the coup, it became almost impossible to get the funds to Myanmar. The U Nay Win Sunshine Memorial Fund donations have unfortunately been delayed, as with essential donations to parahita schools and other donations in Myanmar. We are determined to make up for this when the situation improves. In spite of all these challenges, we did manage to continue our donations here in the UK, and also make a few donations in Myanmar including to Abidhamma Yatnar Covid-19 Medical Centre in Bahan for Daw Tin Ohn Myint in November 2020 and working through Sayadaw U Gandhamala, we were able to donate to the Mingun water project and much needed oxygen supplies to help COVID patients in Myanmar. We also succeeded to send funds to start the essential monastery and meditation caves repair work on Taungtha mountain with the help of BEST trustee U Aung Kyaw Johnson Moe. To mark the 19th Anniversary of BEST, we were able to make a special HTI donation for the Ghandhara Pagoda in Sagaing earlier in the year and I would like to thank Dr. Ko Ko, Daw Molly Ko and U Thura Ko for their help in this unique opportunity for a HTI donation. We say farewell and pray for much loved Daw Amy Khaing and Daw Tin Tin San (Rose) who always helped and attended BEST annual gatherings as well as other friends and family who have departed us. We also pray for peace and wellbeing of everyone in our beautiful country and beyond. Thank you all for your continued support and resilience in a difficult year. Stay strong and loving kindness to you all. Daw Khin Win Mya Working with Tipitaka Sayadaw U Gandhamala, donating much needed oxygen for COVID patients
Dear Friends Once again, for the financial year 2019-2020, I am very pleased to inform you that the BEST donations in Myanmar reached yet another milestone with a new record of 41.15 million kyats or £22,641. For a small charity, this really is excellent news. For the 2019 U Nay Win Sunshine Memorial Fund, we chose 8 of the 9 winners from and around the Chin State one of the remotest parts of the country. Please find here a short video of the donations in Myanmar. Thank you all for your support and generosity. Thadu. Thadu. Thadu. Daw Khin Win Mya - BEST President 5/19/2020 0 Comments Farewell dear friends...We are sad to announce the passing away of Daw Ohmar Thein lovingly known as Cherry in September 2019 and in February 2020 we had to say good bye to Daw Kyi Kyi Hlaing, lovingly known as Hazel. In April 2020 COVID 19, took away Dr. Myint Wynn and U Soe Win Tin. In the following month of May, we also have had to say good bye to Mr. Alan Stanley for the same reason . They were all friends and supporters of BEST as well as respected members of the Burmese community. They were loving, kind and generous people doing their best for family, friends and the community. We honour you and we pray for you. Although you are no longer physically with us in this life, you will remain in our hearts, our minds and our prayers. Rest in peace dear friends.
On Friday 7 February, Professor Robert H. Taylor Best Patron joined the BEST Myanmar team - Daw San New, Daw Theingi Hlaing and Daw Moe Thuzar for donations to two new schools in Dagon. Aung Myay Monastic School, A-9 Street, 78 Quarter, Yuzana Garden City, East Dagon Township headed by Sayadaw U Eaindaka (photo below) provides free education to a total of 1049 pupils ranging from Kindergarten to 10th grade. BEST is happy to donate 1.5 million kyats to this worthy school. May there be more donations to parahita schools. Photo (above and below) - At Aung Myay school donation. BEST Myanmar delegation with Professor Robert H. Taylor, Head Monk U Eaindaka and teachers)
BEST Myanmar is also pleased to welcome Daw Moe Thuzar (above photo - right) to the BEST Myanmar team.
မင်းတပ်မြို့သီရိမင်္ဂလာ ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးသင် ပညာရေးကျောင်း( ဆရာတော် ဦးနန္ဒသီရိ )၏ ကျောင်းသူ ကျောင်းသားများအတွက် ပစ္စည်းလေးပါး ထောက်ပံ့ရေးအဖွဲ့ ( မြန်မာ )က လိုအပ်နေသော အနွေးထည်များ စောင်များ ( သုံးသိန်း သုံးသောင်းကျပ်တန်ဘိုးသင့်ငွေ ) ကို ၁၂.၁၂.၂၀၁၉ နေ့က ပေးပို့ လှုဒါန်းခဲ့ပါသည်။
On 12 December 2019, the children and the elderly in Mindat received a big delivery of warm clothes and blankets to provide winter warmth in the cold Chin state. The delivery was organised by BEST Myanmar and what a joy to see the smiles on their faces! Thadu. Thadu. Thadu. |