Nov 4, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Mar 9, 2021
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A Personal View from Inside Myanmar
Written by a staff member in Myanmar: Military regime in Myanmar lasted from 1962 to 2011 and resumed again in 1st February 2021. The...
Feb 3, 2021
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Myanmar Political Upheaval
By now, you may have heard about the political upheaval that took place January 31, 2021 in Myanmar. Of note, the military has staged a...
Dec 8, 2020
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Nocrumbsleft and Teri Turner Support Shanta
We're excited that Teri Turner, a hugely popular Instagram food blogger and author of the best-selling cookbook, No Crumbs Left: Recipes...
Nov 19, 2020
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COVID-19 Alert
While our partner villages have not yet had any Covid-19 cases, the travel restrictions and drought have severely impacted their...