Our Activities

We aim to provide opportunities for the less advantaged in our society and to alleviate their sufferings in a way we can. We try to reach and provide support to orphanages, prahita (non-profit) welfare schools, institutions, individual patients, hospitals, and special health projects. We provide assistance either in cash or in kind. We do it alone or in collaboration with other groups.

Each year, our donation activities start in January and continue through out the year. Through our web updates, donors are informed of each year's work.



Your donations have reached the following people, institutions and projects. We now have achieved what we set out to achieve and this visible success is an encouragement for further activity.

1. We have provided funds for special projects for the treatment of eye diseases by foreign specialists at Mt. Popa Clinic.
2. At Eye Hospital in Yangon we have contributed to hospital emergency fund. We have also helped needy patients in the hospital ward by handing out cash to incur medical expenses.
3. At Children's Hospital in Yangon, we provided funds for emergency needs of Dengue Fever Ward and also contributed to the Hospital fund
4. In Yangon, Tanyin, Twante, and Kyaikhteeyo, we have provided funds for 19 orphanages and prahita schools, school for deaf children and training school for girls; in Mandalay, home for girls; and in Monywa, home for the aged.
5. For prahita school in Dar Pain, we have provided school benches
6. We have given material aids for new born babies and nursing mothers of Myanmar workers group in Mahachai area in Thailand.
7. We have also provided food, educational aids, sports facilities and toys for prahita school children of Myanmar workers group in Mahachai area in Thailand.

New Additions for 2008

* Our Relief Work

Metta Spectrum has spread out relief supplies and cash donations to places where immediate help is needed. Villagers from Laputta and Dedaye areas received clothes, towels, blankets, bed sheets and footwear.

People in Kawhmu and Kungyangone areas got clothes, candles, rice, medicine and cash. Special Tarpaulin sheets were donated to families in Dagon Seikkan township to make shelter as it was found that they needed shelter most. Almost all the relief providers are giving priority to hardest hit villages and towns in the Delta. As this place is near Yangon city, it is not getting much attention as it should be though their houses were blown off by Nargis.

The community of about 2,000 residents is in urgent need of shelter. Nearly about 400 families need shelter more than any other thing. So Metta Spectrum has addressed this urgent need by donating for the construction of temporary shelter together with other donors. One volunteer group is supervising the construction. The first phase of construction is only for a hundred families. Hence, more funding is urgently needed to complete the task for the whole community. Tarpaulin sheets to shelter one family costs 20, 000 kyats.

For the severely stricken areas in the Delta, cash donations have been made through the following groups:

Myanmar Medical Association 
Sitagu Sayadaw Gyi's group
Sayadaw Ashin Sekeinda's group

Donations have been made and will continue to be made at the cyclone hit areas.

* Orphans/ Elderly People

Rendering support to the orphans has been one of our main tasks. The number of orphans at the orphanages is most likely to be on the increase after the cyclone. So more effort is to be made to give our continuous support to these institutions.

While to strengthen the support system of the orphanages seems to be an urgent need, there is also another pressing task to attend to. That is to attend to the elderly people who have lost their families and homes due to the cyclone. They need to be taken into care. The situation calls for our deep concern. We feel that this is an issue that should be addressed at the same level of emphasis by all of us.

* Metta Spectrum takes care of your contribution to reach the really needed people

2008

Your participation is crucial. With the combination of your good will and dedicated efforts of MS team, we are confident that we can make a difference. Indeed, our hearts are connected with a thread of deep concern. So with our joint commitment, we can work hard together on possibles so that they become reality.

No matter how often or how much you contribute you can all be proud of the satisfactory and good outcome. Our donations have proved to be worthwhile. Your contribution is never late. MS donation is an on-going process and the donation activities are year-round activities.

2008 Donation Activities

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In 2009

We will continue to develop more libraries and more vegetable gardens while at the same time addressing other needs. Generally speaking, people are mostly aware that libraries are necessary but the benefits of keeping a vegetable garden still needs more awareness. We are working hard to make these two projects to be more successful and it is hoped that in the near future many libraries and vegetable gardens would appear.

More gifts for children: We believe having an opportunity to have access to good books and to play music can create a happy and healthy atmosphere. So it will be organized for the children and young people to have some musical instruments along with the books and things for sports. We have learned that there are some prahita schools where music classes are being organized under the supervision of professionals.


Talent and potential: Programs of giving prizes and gifts to the winners and participants of such activities as storytelling, drawing, and sports and games will be organized to nourish the childrens’ talents and to develop their potential. At these events, participation and collaborative work will be highly recognized. Last year, unfortunately, Nargis hit the delta and we had to respond to the urgent call of the cyclone stricken areas focusing on relief and rehabilitation. Also in 2009, we will continue to attend to the needs of these cyclone victims. We have put on our priority list the cyclone related orphanages and some places where the cyclone had hit mercilessly.