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BACKGROUND
Learning Offers
Reprieve from the Struggle of Rural Existence
By Nwe Nwe Aye
A TAXING existence, consigned to the workaday struggle of rural life
collecting firewood and tending cattle, with little hope for an
education or the prospect of a brighter tomorrow. Such was the fate
of a typically underprivileged group of children in the small Mon
State village of Taung Zun before the inception, five years ago, of
Sayadaw Baddhanta Ottarasara’s Thawka Myaung monastic
education centre.
Established in late 1995 under the guidance of the State Sangha
Nayaka Committee, the monastery occupies 12 acres of land at the
base of a small mountain and operates entirely on voluntary public
donations.
Designed to provide an education-of-last-resort to parentless
children, the school also accommodates those from regions where
youths have
little access to education or whose
parents
can ill-afford school fees.
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this article was published in an
English Language Newspaper in Myanmar, 2000
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