Boarding houses teach Myanmar women child care

THE Church is helping young women from dioceses across Myanmar teach and care for children at Church-run boarding houses.

Lucrecia Naw Kyu Khin 33, program coordinator of the Episcopal Commission for Education, told UCA News: “We started the program because we want young women to be responsible for the integral formation of children and youth.”

The second batch of students — 22 young women — are currently attending the Formation of Educators for Boarding Houses program in Yangon. The course started in July 2009 and will end this May.

They are learning skills related to communication, discipline, problem solving, story telling, art and crafts, mathematics, music and faith education.

The program also includes a practical component in which they learn to care for children in their own dioceses.

One student, Catherine Nang Seng, 22, from Myitkyina diocese, told UCA News: “I joined the program because I saw the need to improve the quality of care in Church-run boarding houses.

“During the practical workshop I realized just how much children truly hunger for love, especially the orphans. If we really teach and care for them with love, their lives will surely improve.”

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