Beneficiaries:

1.    Jiwitadana Sangha Hospital, Yangon

2.    EENT Hospital, Yangon

3.    School for Deaf (Mandalay)

4.    School for Deaf (Yangon, Mary Chapman)

5.    Residential Nursery (Orphanage for 1/2-3yrs old)

6.    Training School for Girls (Orphanage for 6-18 yrs)

7.    Kyaik Wine Boys' Training School (Orphanage for 6-18yrs)

8.    Zamburatana Buddhist Culture Course (ZBCC) - Myat Manglar Kyaung (excellent education program for poor village students)

9.    Kalaywatawya Study Centre, Nagahlaigu (Naga Cave Pagoda Monastery) (1,400 monks many of whom are also orphans & minorities  races)

10.  Monastery Care Primary School (Thiriminin Mangala Monastery)

      (very very poor school for the very poor)

Hearing Aids Provider and Professional Consultant:

1. Siemens Medical Instruments, Singapore

Mission's Objective & Project: Hearing Aids Project

- To conduct test for hearing impairment as 1 in 10 of the people in Myanmar

      (total >40 million) is suffering from some sort of hearing impairments

- To train the medical personnel in the use of the test equipment

- To donate hearing aids and test equipment to the hearing impaired and hospitals

- To create awareness of the prevalence of hearing problems &

      the use of hearing aids via public education

- To expose & engage Buddhists in voluntary work & humanitarian service

Mission's Objective & Project: Social Voluntary Project

- To distribute food, clothing and toys to the needy

- To expose & engage Buddhists in voluntary work & humanitarian service

Volunteers:

Sponsored Volunteers:

- 12 volunteers with medical background for the hearing aids programme

- 12 volunteers for the social voluntary programme

Self-sponsored volunteers:

- Full paying volunteers (working adults) - who will assist the above 2 projects

What would be involved?

Hearing Aids Project:

- Trained manpower (a team of 10 volunteers - may expand to 15 depending on number of volunteers)

- Identify a temple or Buddhist organization to work with on the educational programmes and two hospitals to be recipients of the donation of hearing aids.

- Training of volunteers to begin 2 months before the mission. Siemens Medical Group Singapore will provide training free of charge.

- Siemens Medical Group will send 2 audiologists to support the mission.

Social Voluntary Project:

- To raise a small portion of the funds for the mission

- Publicizing of mission in Singapore and Myanmar.

- Gathering of old clothes, food, blankets locally

Logistics:

Hearing Aids Project:

-  Hearing aids: 260 sets

-  Hearing testing equipments - 2 sets:

    - audiometers

    - handtympanic

Social Voluntary Project:

- food

- blankets

- clothing and toys

- medicine

- books

- stationeries

- computer / printer / scanner