Dec 2, 2021
Blog - community-led - leadership
Resiliency and Development Part II
Transformative Capacity Transformative capacity means having the ability to affect systemic change or create a positive...
Nov 24, 2021
Blog - community bank - economic development - Village Partners
November 2021 Newsletter
Visit this link to read more about the impact of U Maung Boat's new business, as well as view the rest of our November Newsletter, which...
Nov 11, 2021
Blog - community-led - economic development - leadership - women
Chocolate Fountains and Women’s Empowerment
Thoughts from Executive Director, Wade Griffith Ever been to a Golden Corral restaurant? For your sake, I hope not. Still, there is one...
Nov 4, 2021
Blog - community-led - economic development - leadership
Resiliency and Development
Community-Led Development in the face of COVID19? The emergence of COVID-19 in 2020 posed an existential threat to thousands of...
Oct 25, 2021
Blog
Water for Aung Le!
Imagine walking a mile to retrieve water for your everyday use. It may require several trips a day to complete ordinary tasks like cooking,...
Sep 13, 2021
Blog
What I Am Fired Up About
While I am always enthusiastic about Shanta's work, I get truly enthused when I think about Shanta's future. On the cusp of expansion with...
Jun 27, 2021
Blog
No Longer Left Behind
Ma Khin Lay is a 37-year-old married woman living in Htee Lone village in Taunggyi Township. She has two children in the 5th and 7th...
May 25, 2021
Blog
IMAGINE…Villagers Self-financing Their Paths out of Poverty. The Power of the Community Loan Fund
What makes Shanta unique in the humanitarian and community development world? Our unique development model has three pillars of...
Apr 30, 2021
Blog
Leading to a Better Vision
A Leader Is Born! U Lee Tan is a forty-year-old husband, father of two, and a farmer from Shanta’s partner village, Chaung Kaut. In...