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November 8, 2017

BEAM/JUMP! Youth Conference: Welding Ideas for Sustainable Existence (WISE)

On 28-29Oct and 4-5 Nov, 2017, the BEAM/JUMP! Youth Conference: Welding Ideas for Sustainable Existence (WISE) was successfully held at the Faculty of Social Science in Chiang Mai University and Funruk Resort, Hang Dong in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The four day program was run in collaboration between BEAM Education Foundation and the JUMP! Foundation. It consisted of two days ofpre-conference workshops and two days of conference with 41participantsincluding: Myanmar youth, Thai youth, and Thai ethnic youth living in Chiang Mai.

September 26, 2017

Tailoring training in collaboration with Chiang Mai Polytechnic College

ဘီမ္းပညာေရးေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္းႏွင့္ ခ်င္းမိုင္နည္းပညာေကာလိပ္တို႔ ပူးေပါင္းျပီး စက္ခ်ဳပ္နည္းပညာသင္တန္း ဖြင့္ ဘီးမ္ပညာေရးေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္းႏွင့္ ခ်င္းမိုင္ နည္းပညာေကာလိပ္တို႔ ပူးေပါင္းအေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္သည့္ ဆရာအတတ္သင္ စက္ခ်ဳပ္နည္းပညာသင္တန္း (TOT) ကို စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁၈ ရက္တြင္ စတင္ဖြင့္လွစ္သင္ၾကားႏိုင္ျပီျဖစ္သည္။ ႏွစ္ဘက္အၾကား ၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္၊ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၂ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးႏိုင္ခဲ့သည့္ အသက္ေမြးဝမ္းေၾကာင္းပညာေရးက႑ ပူးေပါင္းအေကာင္အထည္ ေဖာ္ေဆာင္သြားရန္ နားလည္မႈစာခၽြန္လႊာအရ ဖြင့္လွစ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ စက္ခ်ဳပ္သင္တန္းတြင္ အေျခခံႏွင့္ ဆရာအတတ္သင္
September 14, 2017

BEAM’s Recent Milestones

BEAM Education Foundation envisions local, people-oriented, peaceful, and developed communities in Myanmar and Thailand, which can be sustained by empowering local communities through comprehensive education
September 14, 2017

Elderly Health Care Course Completion

On 9th September 2017, BEAM members participated in the event Certificate Awarding for Elderly Health Care Course. This event, organized by the Thai Non-formal and Informal Education Department, was held at Chiang Mai Orchid Hotel.

August 24, 2017

What are the BEAM alumni doing? Myat Linn Aung

Myat Linn Aung is one of BEAM’s GED Program graduates. He successfully passed the GED exam in 2014. Immediately after he passed GED exam, he began to work at the Boarding High School for Orphans and Helpless Youth (BHSOH) in Mae Sot, Thailand. First established along the Thai-Myanmar border in 1993, BHSOH is dedicated to fill the educational void experienced by orphans and children from migrant families.

August 23, 2017

Village Corps Program: Root woods to Furniture Project – Tu Nge and Ba Hlaing

Tu Nge and Ba Hlaing, originally from De Maw Soe Township, Kayah State, Myanmar, are graduates from the Information Communication Technology training under BEAM Education Foundation’s Vocational Program. They both worked at a furniture factory in Chiang Mai while studying vocational skills at BEAM. Recently, they went back to their home town to start a community development plan called “Root Wood to Furniture Project.”

August 23, 2017

Capping and Pinning Ceremony – Ying Loongku and Nan Sanda Aye

On 19 August 2017, two BEAM GED alumni students finished an important step to become international nurses: the Capping and Pinning Ceremony at Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University. The Capping and Pinning Ceremony celebrates the students for achieving academic knowledge and basic nursing skills so they can now practice in hospitals with real patients.

August 10, 2017

What are the BEAM alumni doing? ZweMyat Chan Maung

Zwe, originally from Karen State, Myanmar, is one of BEAM’s GED Program graduates. He successfully passed the GED exam in 2013. After passing the GED, Zwe spent two years teaching English and Math at the Children Development Center (CDC) in Mae Sot. Over a period of two years, he taught sixty students ages 9-14.

August 10, 2017

Activities on the Occasion of International Day of the World’s Indigenous People 2017

On August 8, 2017, BEAM Education Foundation participated in the event of International Day of the World’s Indigenous People 2017, organized by The Network of Indigenous Peoples in Thailand [NIPT], the Council of Indigenous Peoples in Thailand [CIPT], and their partners at the Faculty of Education, Chiang Mai University.

August 2, 2017

Mansur Alam, Volunteer Science Teacher

Mansur started volunteering at BEAM as a Substitute Science Teacher in early July 2017. He is here for only a short time; he will be assisting BEAM until the 2nd week of August 2017. He came to Chiang Mai to volunteer with Cultural Canvas Thailand through the EIL Explore Program this summer. Mansur shares his experience in Thailand: