'Pencils for Kids' is a Canadian charity dedicated to improving educational opportunities for children. You can find details on their website here. Although their initial focus was Niger, their success has allowed them to expand into other areas.
In March 2013, a group from the charity visited Myanmar to donate Backpacks to 350 orphans, single parent students and poor students in and around Yangon. Doctor Hla Tun assisted the group with the distribution of the Backpacks at four orphanages and one school. Each backpack includes exercise books, ball point pens, pencils, eraser, marker pen, coloured pencils, crayon, drawing book, ruler, pencil sharpener, toothbrush and pencil case, together with either school uniform or, for nuns, a robe.
Members of the 'Pencils for Kids' group joined the 'Road to Mandalay' from March 20th to March 23rd and, on March 22nd, they distributed reading glasses to the elderly outside the Bagan Medical Clinic.
Group picture after delivering backpacks to 174 students at a Monastic School at a Nunnery in Yangon area.
'Pencils for Kids' members also brought reading glasses for elderly patients at the Bagan Medical Clinic. They made a trial by wearing and reading a newspaper or journal.
Patients wearing new spectacles pose with 'Pencils for Kids' members in front of the Bagan Medical Clinic.
Photographs
You can find these and more photographs of the work of the Bagan Clinic in 2013 here.
