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Home    Sitemap    Help    Media Library    Find a Partner   Select a Partner 1st Framework Afrikan Quest Albion Primary School Alfred Salter PS Archbishop Michael Ramsey Arts & Media Project Associacao Imagem Comunitaria Aylwin Girls Sch Bellenden Residents' Group Bethlehem Castle Arts Charles Edward Brooke Girls School Charterhouse Community TV Trust Cooltan Arts Corsica Arts Club E.Dulwich Community Cntr English Martyrs RC School FAIR STREET Farassa Gloucester Primary Sch Goodrich Primary Sch Goose Green Primary Sch ICE - Sydney InSpire Kickstart YIP Langbourne Primary Sch Lilian Baylis Technology School Livesey Museum Mothers Against Guns NEON Peckham Voluntary Sector Forum Pioneer African Caribbean Over 50s Group Rockingham Somali Support Group se5forum for Camberwell Sierra Leone Community Forum SL & Maudsley NHS Trust Southwark College Southwark Hindu Centre SPAG Southwark Pensioners Cntr Refugee Artists Network SSEMTA Southwark YP Magazine Spirit Arts Academy Stepforward Storymakers Syndicate Time And Talents Tribute Trust Uni4U Volunteer Centre Southwark Willowbank PRU Yangon YMCA Young Parents Project Youth Animation Media PROMOTING YANGON YMCA HOSTEL ‘by staying at the YMCA hostel, you are helping children in the YMCA Village’ (mentioned in ‘Lonely Planet’ under Yangon – Sleeping – City Centre – Budget) 263 Mahabandoola Rd, Botataung Township, Botataung P.O. 11161, Yangon Tel: 294 128, Fax: 95-1-296 848 email:yangonymca@mptmail.net.mm Location: The YMCA is centrally located on the corner of Thein Byu (nearly opposite the Prime Minister’s office) and Mahabandoola Rd. It is convenient for shopping and restaurants, and within walking distance of Sule Pagoda, Scott Market, the waterfront and access to ferries. Guest Room Facilities: The YMCA in Yangon lets out rooms (with breakfast) to foreign and local guests. In the main building there are some 30 rooms all with air con, some having en suite facilities, others with shared bath /showers. In the new annex, there are 30 new rooms, which are being brought into use as funds become available to furnish and equip them. All rooms will have a.c., refrigerator and TV whilst many will be en suite. Costs start at ?subject=From Website'>8 (for B and B plus free transport to/from airport. A % of guest fees goes towards the YMCA Village project (below). The ‘YMCA Village’: Huaing Thar, Yar satellite township, is a poor community on the ‘wrong’ side of the River Yangon on the north-west edge of the city. The people were settled on swampy and polluted land some 14 years ago, from areas in the city which were being cleared for development. Initially the YMCA arranged for boreholes to be drilled to provide decent running water. During the 1990’s the emphasis was to organise the building of school rooms. Nowadays the Yangon YMCA employs teachers across the kindergarten to 10th grade age range, the aim being to try and ensure local children obtain their matriculation, which is necessary for any reasonable job prospect. The YMCA also provides regular food supplies and other materials for the poorer, orphaned children. YOU CAN ASSIST this important Educational and Welfare work by: • Encouraging visitors to Yangon to stay at the YMCA • To help publicise the Guest Room facilities, encouraging visitors to write positively of their experience and ‘tell a friend’ on www.virtualtourist.com/hotels/Asia/Burma/Yangon • Consider sponsoring a Guest Room to help get more rooms furnished and occupied, so generating more income • Consider helping sponsor a teacher or child at the YMCA Village For more details contact Russell Cleaver. Email: jrc@cleaver.freeserve.co.uk (1st version: 6.2.06)