Stories

“ေသျပီလို႕ပဲ ထင္ခဲ့တာ” နာဂစ္ေဘးဒုကၡမွ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာသူ စိတ္ဓါတ္ခုိင္မာသည့္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးတစ္ဦး၏ ျဖစ္ရပ္မွန္

This is Myanmar Version of "I thought I was dead" - a true story of a strong girl, survivor of Cyclone Nargis, ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံသည္ ပထ၀ီအေနအထားအရ ဆုိင္ကလုန္းမုန္တုိင္း၊ ဆူနာမီ၊ ေျမငလ်င္၊ ေရၾကီးျခင္း၊ ေျမျပိဳျခင္းႏွင့္ နုိင္ငံအလယ္ပိုင္းတြင္ မုိးေခါင္ေရရွားျခင္းစသည့္ သဘာဝေဘးအႏၱရာယ္မ်ိဳးစံု...
Back of Thet Htar, Looking at water

“I thought I was dead” – a true story of a strong girl, survivor of Cyclone Nargis

“I wanted to die and I decided to die. I gave-up.” “It is strange, really strange. When I gave-up, I was drawn into the water. The feeling was so horrible. My head, my ears, my nose were out of my control and the pain I suffered is not comparable to anything. Then, I suddenly awoke and realized: I...
Cash distribution in emergency flood response

Local Myanmar organizations step in with humanitarian response to heavy annual floods: The localisation of Humanitarian Response in the Ayeyarwaddy floods

Authour : Yee Mon Oo, Communications and Media Coordinator, Oxfam in Myanmar In August 2016, annual monsoon weather flooded vast swathes of Myanmar, leaving destruction in its wake. Though much effort from communities and NGOs alike goes into preparing communities for these annual floods, each year...
CSO respresentative is discussing his concern during the public hearing forum. Photo by: Oxfam in Myanmar

Public forums in Ayeyarwaddy Delta achieve democratic change: reclaiming confiscated land, and free maternity care

Author: Thiha Ko Ko, Programme Manager Local Governance, Oxfam in Myanmar Confiscated land is returned to farmers when Minister acknowledges their rights at public forum In Myanmar, land is a defining issue, especially for the 70% of the population who live and work in rural areas. For small-scale...
Daw Myint Myint Kyi (aka) Ma Ma is smiling inside her house. Photo by: Yee Mon Oo/Oxfam

When Women Become Leaders

Author: Yee Mon Oo, Communications and Media Coordinator, Oxfam in Myanmar Myint Myint Kyi is fifty years old and lives in a small village called Kyone Kan along a creek of the Delta river, in Pyapon Township.Ayeyawaddy region. She is known to her friends as Ma Ma. The Delta is a wide river running...