Dec 8, 2020
Blog
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
Blog
COVID-19 Alert
While our partner villages have not yet had any Covid-19 cases, the travel restrictions and drought have severely impacted their...
Aug 4, 2020
Blog
Shanta’s Model Empowers Villages during COVID-19
“My three sons are students and I’m worrying how can I support them to keep study this year. And because of I lost big amount of...
Jun 9, 2020
Blog
Taking time to do it the right way – how COVID-19 is changing our work in Myanmar
A lot has changed since my last blog post, shared as the real scale of COVID-19’s impact on our lives was just beginning to come into...
Mar 29, 2020
Blog
The future is still bright
We know the world is feeling upside down right now, and everyone is facing a lot of uncertainty and fear. It is time for us all to take...
Dec 13, 2019
Blog
Fireworks Spark a Bright Future
Bwar Kyi and her husband live in Aung Lei village. They are subsistence farmers working the small plot of land they live on to grow...
Mar 7, 2019
Blog - community bank - community-led - economic development - women
Happy International Women’s Day!
Happy International Women's Day! Traditionally, women have been under represented in rural Myanmar. The men made the decisions for what...
Jan 17, 2019
Blog - community bank - community-led - economic development - women
Growing Dreams With Single Origin Coffee
Wai Ti, of Pin Mi Kone village, shows us her young coffee plant in her bamboo shade house. While her coffee bean harvest may be a few years...
Sep 18, 2018
Blog
Donor Feature: Why Advisory Board members, Arthur Cohen and Elizabeth Karcher, invest in Shanta . . .
Thirteen years ago Elizabeth and I went to Myanmar and spent one day visiting remote villages that hadn’t progressed in hundreds of...
Jul 18, 2016
community-led - leadership - Village Partners - women
The Pa’O Women’s Group Finds Their Voice
In Naung Boat, Shanta has been challenged by a perceived lack of village interest in the partnership, specifically by women. We’ve...