Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # KTWG | Karen Teacher Working Group The Karen Teacher Working Group (KTWG) is a local Karen organization attempting to promote education throughout Karen State, Burma. ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://ktwg.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Emergency Response Training and First Aid Refresher Traiing](https://ktwg.org/2023/06/emergency-response-training-and-first-aid-refresher-traiing/) - From June 12 to 13, an emergency response training and refresher course in first aid were conducted for a total of 13 participants. The participants included members of the emergency response team, school teachers, and KTTC teachers. This valuable training opportunity was organized by our partner, MI. #EmergencyResponseTraining #FirstAidRefresher #Teamwork - [Call for Quotation for Emergency support](https://ktwg.org/2026/07/call-for-quotation-for-emergency-support/) - Call for Quotation: School Emergency & Contingency Kits Dear Respected Suppliers, KTWG is excited to announce an opportunity for you to participate in our quotation process for essential school emergency and contingency kits. We are seeking qualified and reputable suppliers to join us in this important procurement process. 3rd_July_2026_CRED_Call_for_Quotation_for_School_Emergency_kits_3Download - [KTWG Conducts Report Writing and Quality Benchmark Workshop](https://ktwg.org/2026/06/ktwg-conducts-report-writing-and-quality-benchmark-workshop/) - The KTWG Program Support Team successfully conducted a Report Writing and Quality Benchmark Workshop on May 27, 2026. The one-day training brought together 13 KTWG staff members. The purpose of the workshop was to strengthen staff capacity in report writing by enhancing both the quality and effectiveness of their work. Participants were introduced to practical - [Phru Pwgo Newsletter 8th Edition Now Available Online](https://ktwg.org/2026/05/phru-pwgo-newsletter-8th-edition-now-available-online/) - Phru Pwgo Newsletter 8th Edition Now Available Online May 2026 — The latest 8th Edition of the Phru Pwgo Newsletter is now officially available on our website in both Karen and English languages. This new edition continues to share important updates, stories, and information related to Karen education and community development. Readers can now easily - [Taw Oo KTTC Celebrates First Graduation Ceremony, Producing 45 New Teachers for Northern Kawthoolei](https://ktwg.org/2026/05/taw-oo-kttc-first-graduation/) - Taw Oo District, April 24, 2026 The Taw Oo Karen Teacher Training College (KTTC) successfully held its first graduation ceremony on April 24, 2026, graduating 45 new teachers who are expected to serve in remote and conflict-affected communities across Northern Kawthoolei. Growing Demand for Karen Education The establishment of Taw Oo KTTC comes at a - [KTTC Graduation Ceremony for the 2025–2026 Academic Year](https://ktwg.org/2026/04/kttc-2025-2026-academic-year/) - On April 7, 2026, Karen Teacher Training College (KTTC), located in Doo Pla Ya District, Southern Karen State, successfully held its graduation ceremony for the 2025–2026 academic year. The ceremony marked an important milestone for graduating students who completed their academic studies and teaching service. The event began with opening remarks by a member of - [Northern Karen Teacher Training College Held Graduation Ceremony for the 2025–2026 Academic Year](https://ktwg.org/2026/04/kttc-north-2025-2026/) - Northern Karen State | April 10, 2026 The Karen Teacher Training College (KTTC) in Northern Karen State successfully held its graduation ceremony for the 2025–2026 academic year on April 10, 2026. The event marked an important milestone for graduating teachers who are preparing to serve education in their communities. The ceremony officially began with an - [KTTC Science Subject Educators – Two Positions Available](https://ktwg.org/2026/03/kttc-science-subject-educators-two-positions-available/) - Karen Teacher Training College (KTTC) is inviting applications for two Science Subject Educator positions at our campuses in Doo Pla Ya, Karen State, and Taungoo. About the Role We are looking for passionate and qualified educators to join our team in preparing and training future Karen teachers. This role is essential in delivering high-quality science - [Karen Teacher Competency Progress 2022-2025](https://ktwg.org/2026/03/karen-teacher-competency-progress-2022-2025/) - This document provides a summary of Karen Teacher Competency Progress from 2022–2025. It includes yearly results, comparison charts, key changes across four years, and an analysis of strengths and challenges. The report also highlights how the COVID‑19 pandemic and ongoing conflict affected teaching quality, lesson planning, and classroom practice. Teacher voices from the field are - [International Mother Language Day & Call to Action](https://ktwg.org/2026/02/international-mother-language-day-call-to-action/) - International Mother Language Day celebrates linguistic diversity and reaffirms the right of all learners to receive education in their mother language. It highlights the essential role that languages play in education, inclusion and sustainable development. The Kawthoolei education system demonstrates that mother-tongue-based education is not only a culture right, but also a practical and effective - [Vacancy Announcement For Program Manager & Finance Officer Position](https://ktwg.org/2026/02/vacancy-announcement-for-program-manager-finance-officer-position/) - We’re Hiring! Karen Teacher Working Group (KTWG) is excited to announce that we are currently seeking passionate and qualified candidates for two (2) positions: Program Manager Finance Officer Application Opens: February 17, 2026 Application Deadline: February 27, 2026 Come join the KTWG team and be part of a mission that supports teachers and strengthens education - [Celebrating 10 and 15 Years of Service in Education at Karen Teacher Working Group](https://ktwg.org/2026/02/celebrating-10-and-15-years-of-service-in-education-at-karen-teacher-working-group/) - Celebrating 10 and 15 Years of Service in Education at Karen Teacher Working Group The Karen Teacher Working Group (KTWG) proudly recognizes and celebrates staff members who have reached significant milestones of 10 years and 15 years of dedicated service. These milestones reflect long-term commitment, professionalism, and passion for strengthening education in our communities. Over - [KTWG Conducts 2026 Annual Meeting](https://ktwg.org/2026/02/ktwg-conducts-2026-annual-meeting/) - February 4–6, 2026 The Karen Teacher Working Group (KTWG) successfully held its 2026 Annual Meeting from February 4 to 6, bringing together staff from across all programs for reflection, learning, and strategic planning. The three-day meeting focused on reviewing program implementation, operational progress, achievements, and challenges from the past year. Program teams presented key updates - [Invitation to Tenders for TLMs (Teaching Learning Materials)](https://ktwg.org/2026/01/invitation-to-tenders-for-tlms-teaching-learning-materials/) - Advert for TLMs_KTWG_23.1.2026Download For inquiries, please contact: For Karen and Thai Language: Miss. Kedsarin Srimale Phone: (+66) 0904652577 Miss. Nathataporn Phodphiphaksa Phone:(+66) 0612791145 Email: procurementcommittee2021@gmail.com - [Call for Quotation: School Emergency & Contingency Kits](https://ktwg.org/2025/12/call-for-quotation-school-emergency-contingency-kits/) - Call for Quotation: School Emergency & Contingency Kits Dear Respected Suppliers, KTWG is excited to announce an opportunity for you to participate in our quotation process for essential school emergency and contingency kits. We are seeking qualified and reputable suppliers to join us in this important procurement process. 1.Call for Quotation for School Emergency kitsDownload - [CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD DAY](https://ktwg.org/2025/11/convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child-day/) - Eng Ver_Background of UNCRC Day (World Children’s Day)Download Kar Ver_Background of UNCRC Day (World Children’s Day)Download - [အရေးပေါ်လုပ်ဆောင်ရန် တောင်းဆိုချက် ကရင်ကျောင်းဆရာဆရာမများအတွက် ၂၀၂၅-၂၀၂၆ ပညာသင်နှစ်တွင်နှစ်စဉ် ထောက်ပံ့ကြေးများအတွက် လိုအပ်မှုအချို့ကို ဖြည့်ဆည်းဆောင်ရွက်ပေးရန်တောင်းဆိုခြင်း](https://ktwg.org/2025/10/urgent-call-subsidy-2025-2026-mm/) - _MMR- Version_ 2025-26-Appeal Letter-Final ApprovedDownload - [တၢ်လၢကဘၣ်ဟံးထီၣ်ဂ့ၢ်ဝီလၢအဆိအချ့ တၢ်ဃ့ထီၣ်တၢ်သကွံၢ်ကညးလၢ တၢ်ကမၤပှဲၤက့ၤ တနံၣ်တဘျီ ကညီကၠိသရၣ် တၢ်မၤစၢၤအဘူးအလဲတၢ်လိၣ် (၂၀၂၅-၂၀၂၆) တၢ်မၤလိနံၣ်](https://ktwg.org/2025/10/urgent-call-subsidy-2025-2026-karen/) - 1-Kar Version_ 2025-26-Appeal Letter-Final ApprovedDownload - [Urgent Call to Action: Appeal to Fill the Gap in Support for Karen Teachers’ Annual Subsidy (2025–2026 Academic Year)](https://ktwg.org/2025/10/urgent-call-to-action-appeal-to-fill-the-gap-in-support-for-karen-teachers-annual-subsidy-2025-2026-academic-year/) - Urgent Call to Action: Appeal to Fill the Gap in Support for Karen Teachers’ Annual Subsidy (2025–2026 Academic Year) 2025-26-Appeal LetterDownload - [Advertisement for TLMs KTWG 2024](https://ktwg.org/2024/01/advert-for-tlms-ktwg-2024/) - Dear All Respected Suppliers, KTWG is very pleased to inform and welcome you in the procurement bid. KTWG is currently in the process of procuring essential school materials for the students and teachers and uniforms for our dedicated teaching staff. We are inviting qualified and reputable suppliers to participate in our tender procurement process. Any - [Call Tender for Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Classroom Materials 20224](https://ktwg.org/2024/02/call-tender-for-early-childhood-care-and-development-eccd-classroom-materials/) - Dear All Respected Suppliers, KTWG is very pleased to inform and welcome you in the procurement bid. KTWG is currently in the process of procuring essential school materials for Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Classroom Materials. We are inviting qualified and reputable suppliers to participate in our tender procurement process. Please see the details - [Call for Quotation for School Emergency & Contingency Kits](https://ktwg.org/2024/09/call-for-quotation-for-school-emergency-contingency-kits/) - Call for Quotation for School Emergency & Contingency kits Date: 24th September 2024 Sub: School Emergency & contingency kits Ref: (PR-2409036) KTWG (Karen Teacher Working Group) is pleased to award a supply contract for School Emergency & contingency kits with financial assistance from NRC. Call for Quotation for School Emergency & Contingency kitsDownload Download - [Vacancy Announcement For Finance Officer & Finance Manager Position](https://ktwg.org/2025/09/vacancy-announcement-for-finance-officer-position/) - 📢 Job Vacancies: Finance Officer & Finance Manager We’re excited to announce that KTWG is currently seeking qualified candidates to join our team in the following positions: Finance Officer Finance Manager Open Date: 1st September, 2025 Closing Date: 19th September, 2025 If you’re passionate about finance and eager to contribute your skills to a dynamic - [Job Vacancy Announcement: In-Service Program Officer](https://ktwg.org/2024/03/job-vacancy-announcement-in-service-program-officer/) - We're excited to announce that our organization is currently seeking candidates for the position of In-Service Program Officer! Application Deadline: May 17, 2024 Come join the KTWG team! For details regarding the requirements of this position, please refer to the link provided below. Download Vacancy Detail - [Education Assistance Officers (4) positions](https://ktwg.org/2024/07/education-assistance-officers-4-positions/) - We're excited to announce that our organization is currently seeking candidates for the four (4) positions as Education Assistance Officers! Application Deadline: August 15, 2024Come join the KTWG team! Download Detail Job Description - [Vacancy announcement](https://ktwg.org/2025/03/vacancy-announcement/) - We’re excited to announce that our organization is currently seeking candidates for three (3) positions as science, math, and skills subject educators at Karen Teacher Training College (KTTC). Application Opens: March 10, 2025Application Deadline: April 4, 2025Come join the KTWG team as a KTTC educator! 1. KTTC Science Subject Teacher JDDownload 2. KTTC Mathematics - [Vacancy re-announcement](https://ktwg.org/2025/05/vacancy-re-announcement/) - We’re excited to re-announce a job opportunity!Our organization is currently looking for a Science Subject Educator to join the team at Karen Teacher Training College (KTTC).Application Opens: May 19, 2025Application Deadline: June 13, 2025Come and be part of the KTWG team as a KTTC educator! 1.-KTTC-Science-Subject-Teacher-JDDownload - [The Hidden Strength: Karen Teachers’ Role in Education Continuity](https://ktwg.org/2025/03/the-hidden-strength-karen-teachers-role-in-education-continuity/) - This study explores how Karen teachers sustain education in crisis-affected areas of Karen State. It examines the challenges they face and highlights key areas for strengthening their skills and building their competencies for the future. Conducted in collaboration with KECD and KTWG in 2024, this research highlights the vital role of Karen teachers in providing - [Call for Tender: School Teaching and Learning Materials (TLMs) 2025](https://ktwg.org/2025/02/call-for-tender-school-teaching-and-learning-materials-tlms-2025/) - Call for Tender: School Teaching and Learning Materials (TLMs) Dear All Respected Suppliers, KTWG is very pleased to inform and welcome you in the procurement bid. KTWG is currently in the process of procuring essential school materials for the students and teachers. We are inviting qualified and reputable suppliers to participate in our tender procurement - [Brief History of World Teacher Day](https://ktwg.org/2024/10/brief-history-of-world-teacher-day/) - Brief History of World Teacher DayDownload - [ကညီကၠိသရၣ်မၤသကိးတၢ်ကရူၢ်လီၢ်ခၢၣ်သး အလံၥ်ဆၢဂ့ၤဆၢ၀ါဆူ ကီၢ်သူလ့ၤကၠိသရၣ်သရၣ်မုၣ်တဖၣ် ဖဲတၢ်မၤလၤကပီၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဒီဖျၢၣ်ကၠိသရၣ်အမုၢ်နံၤ](https://ktwg.org/2024/10/ကညီကၠိသရၣ်မၤသကိးတၢ်ကရူ/) - 05112024_Kar_Fecilitation Letter on World Teacher DayDownload - [Karen Teacher Working Group, Headquarter Felicitation letter to Kawthoolei Teachers on World Teacher's Day](https://ktwg.org/2024/10/karen-teacher-working-group-headquarter-felicitation-letter-to-kawthoolei-teachers-on-world-teachers-day/) - 05112024_Eng-KTWG Felicitation Letter on World Teacher DayDownload - [ဂ့ၢ် ဂီၢ် အူ တၢ် ကိး တၢ် ကိး သတြီ လၢ တၢ် က တၢ် မၤ ပှဲၤ က့ၤ ကၠိသရၣ် တၢ် မၤ တၢ် မၤစၢၤ အဘူး အလဲတၢ် လိၣ် တၢ် လိၣ် လၢ ၂၀၂၄-၂၀၂၅ တၢ် မၤ တၢ် မၤလိနံၣ် အဂီၢ်](https://ktwg.org/2024/09/2024-2025-annoucement-pdf/) - ၂၀၂၄-၂၀၂၅ ကၠိတၢ် မၤတၢ် မၤလိနံၣ် ကၠိသရၣ် အိၣ် ၀ဲ(၁၁,၂၃၁)ဂၤ န့ၣ် လီၤ . လၢ တၢ် ၀ံတၢ် ၀ံကလၤ တဂ့ၤ ဘၣ် အဖီခိၣ် တ နံၣ် အံၤ ပကွၢ် ဆၢၣ်ကွၢ် ဆၢၣ် မဲၥ်ဒီး ကျိၣ် စ့တၢ် ဆီၣ်တၢ် ဆီၣ် ထွဲတၢ် ဂ့ၢ်တၢ် ဂ့ၢ်ကီဂ့ၢ် ကီ, တၢ် လီၤတၢ် လီၤဖျဲၣ် လီၤ ဃိ လၢ ကဘၣ် ဒိး ဘၣ် ထံး ၀ဲ ကၠိသရၣ် တၢ် မၤတၢ် မၤစၢၤ ဃုၥ်ဒီး အဟံၣ် ဖိဃီဖိကဒိး သ့န့ၤ ထီၣ် အသး န့ၣ် လီၤ - [Urgent Call to Action: Filling the Gap in Support for Kawthoolei Teachers' Annual Subsidy for the 2024-2025 Academic Year](https://ktwg.org/2024/09/urgent-call-to-action-filling-the-gap-in-support-for-kawthoolei-teachers-annual-subsidy-for-the-2024-2025-academic-year/) - Brief Overview of the 2024-25 Funding Gap for Teacher Subsidies 11,231 Karen community teachers are preparing for the start of the 2024-2025 school year. Unfortunately, we are facing a funding shortfall that could leave many teachers without the stipends they and their families rely on. Karen teachers are provided 12,000 Thai Baht (350 USD) - [Education Sensitisation Event](https://ktwg.org/2024/06/education-sensitisation-event/) - https://youtu.be/MXQGWNO2xBE - [Karen Children Back-to-School Kawthoolei June 2024!](https://ktwg.org/2024/06/karen-children-back-to-school-kawthoolei-june-2024/) - https://youtu.be/Ic05_g9dIoA Together, we can break down barriers and provide the gift of education to Karen children. Join us in supporting the Karen children’s back-to-school Kawthoolei Education initiatives and help transform lives. Your generosity can empower these young learners to overcome challenges, pursue their dreams, and contribute positively to their communities. Together, let’s make a lasting - [KTWG Fact Sheet 2024](https://ktwg.org/2024/01/ktwg-fact-sheet-2024/) - KTWG Fact Sheet 2024 Download Here ! - [Rights to Education in Emergency Situations](https://ktwg.org/2023/12/rights-to-education-in-emergency-situations/) - The e-newsletter centers around critical themes concerning the fundamental rights to education in emergency situations. This publication aims to bring attention to pressing issues and showcase the collective efforts being undertaken to address these challenges." Download E-Newsletter - [Inclusive Education in conflict-Affected in KawthooLei](https://ktwg.org/2023/12/inclusive-education-in-conflict-affected-in-kawthoolei/) - The e-newsletter emphasizes critical themes of inclusive education in conflict-affected areas, with a specific focus on KawthooLei. This publication aims to illuminate pressing issues and highlight the collaborative efforts being made to address these challenges. Download E Newsletter - [KTWG Pamphlet English and Karen Version](https://ktwg.org/2023/11/ktwg-pamphlet-english-and-karen-version/) - Both the Karen and English-language versions of the KTWG pamphlet are available. Download Here - [World Teacher Day Newsletter Teacher Wellbeing](https://ktwg.org/2023/10/world-teacher-day-newsletter-teacher-wellbeing/) - World Teacher Day Newsletter Teacher Wellbeing PDF Download PDF Here - [KTWG felicitations letter on " World Teacher's Day", October 5th, 2023](https://ktwg.org/2023/10/ktwg-felicitations-letter-on-world-teachers-day-october-5th-2023/) - က​ညီ​ကၠိ​သ​ရၣ်​မၤ​သ​ကိး​တၢ်​က​ရူၢ်​အ​လံာ်​ဟ့ၣ်​ယုၢ်​ဖဲ​ဟီၣ်​ခိၣ်​ဒီ​ဖျၢၣ်​တၢ်​မၤ​လၤ​က​ပီၤ​ကၠိ​သ​ရၣ်,​သ​ရၣ်​မုၣ်​မုၢ်​နံၤ ​လါ​အီး​က​ထိ​ဘၢၣ် (၅)​သီ ၂၀၂၃​နံၣ် KTWG felicitations letter on " World Teacher's Day" October 5th, 2023 On this special occasion of World Teacher's Day, we extend our heartfelt greetings and gratitude to all the dedicated and inspiring teachers around the world, with a special appreciation for the incredible contributions of Karen teachers. - [Community Safety Awareness Event (Mine Risk Eudcation)](https://ktwg.org/2023/09/community-safety-awareness-event-mine-risk-eudcation/) - The importance of this Mine Risk Education has grown significantly in recent times, particularly after the 2021 coup, as incidents involving mines and explosive devices have increased due to ongoing conflicts and fighting. The primary objective of the Mine Risk Education event was to empower the communities in the seven districts with knowledge on how - [Karen Wrist Tying Festival Celebration](https://ktwg.org/2023/09/karen-wrist-tying-festival-celebration/) - The Karen Wrist Tying Festival celebration took place at the Karen Teacher Training College on August 31, 2023. A local leader opened the ceremony with a melodious poem. KTTC students proudly showcased various aspects of Karen culture, presenting captivating Don Dances, Bamboo Dances, Pestel Dances, Rope Dances, and rhythmic poems. The local elder encouraged the - [MTB-MLE team has successfully conducted MTB-MLE training for first-year students at South KTTC](https://ktwg.org/2023/08/mtb-mle-team-has-successfully-conducted-mtb-mle-training-for-first-year-students-at/) - The MTB-MLE team has successfully conducted MTB-MLE training for first-year students at South KTTC. A total of 71 students (22 males and 49 females) received the MTB-MLE training in the 4-day training program held from August 21st to 24th. Throughout the training, various MTB-MLE tools were utilized, including: Theories Pre-Listening Pre-Reading Pre-Writing Sequence Picture Story - [Education Struggles in Karen State/Kawthoolei](https://ktwg.org/2023/08/education-struggles-in-karen-state-kawthoolei/) - "Education Struggles in Karen State/Kawthoolei" An Animated Tale of Resilience and Hope "ကညီတၢ်ကူၣ်ဘၣ်ကူၣ်သ့အတၢ်ဂဲၤလိၥ်လၢ ကီၢ်သူလ့ၤအပူၤ"တၢ်တူၢ်န့ၢ်ခီၣ်ကဲဒီးတၢ်မုၢ်လၢ်အဂ့ၢ် တၢ်ဂီၤမှံ-(စကောကရင်ဘာသာ) Subscribe our You tube channel "KTWG-Kaw Lah Films" - [Call supplier for IT equitments](https://ktwg.org/2023/07/call-supplier-for-it-equitments/) - Tender deadline extension to 10th August 2023 We are calling a Tender for Office Equipment Purchasing Process. The deadline of tender submission is on 10th August 2023 not later than 17 pm (Thai Time). If you are interested, please kindly see the information below. If require any further details, please contact the person below. Contact - [Karen Teacher Training College (KTTC) North and KTTC South welcomed the new academic year with remarkable opening ceremonies!](https://ktwg.org/2023/06/karen-teacher-training-college-kttc-north-and-kttc-south-welcomed-the-new-academic-year-with-remarkable-opening-ceremonies/) - Karen Teacher Training College (KTTC) North and KTTC South welcomed the new academic year with remarkable opening ceremonies! On May 26, 2023, KTTC North conducted its opening ceremony for the 2023–2024 academic year, followed by KTTC South on June 5, 2023. We congratulate both campuses on their successful events! A warm welcome to the 293 - [The Karen Teacher Working Group just had its annual meeting from May 10 to 12, 2023. Here's a brief report](https://ktwg.org/2023/05/the-karen-teacher-working-group-just-had-its-annual-meeting-from-may-10-to-12-2023-heres-a-brief-report/) - The Karen Teacher Working Group just had its annual meeting from May 10 to 12, 2023. Here's a brief report we made! Read detail report in PDF - [Training for Master Trainers on Data Collection for Students' Challenges](https://ktwg.org/2023/05/training-for-master-trainers-on-data-collection-for-students-challenges/) - From April 25th to 26th, 2023, a training session was held for 22 Master Trainers on Data Collection for Students' Challenges in Mae Saraing. The training aimed to support participants in exploring the concept and practice of inclusive education with teachers, introducing and confidently explaining the benefits of a functional approach to inclusion, familiarizing participants - [Interview with Saw Sree Gay Taw](https://ktwg.org/2023/04/interview-with-saw-sree-gay-taw/) - Saw Sree Gay Taw He joined KTTC for the 2021-2023 school year and recently graduated on March 21, 2023. He chose KTTC because he recognizes the need for education among the Karen people and their children. After graduation, he plans to serve the Karen community by contributing to the education of their children - [Karen Teacher Training College's 2021-2023 Academic Year](https://ktwg.org/2023/04/karen-teacher-training-colleges-2021-2023-academic-year/) - Honoring students teacher who completed the 2021-2023 academic year. - [Migrant Students Take University Entrance Exam](https://ktwg.org/2013/03/migrant-students-take-university-entrance-exam/) - 56 students from migrant school take university exam in Myawaddy form 13th March and the exam period will complete on the 22nd of March. In the exam, 29 male students and 27 female students sit an exam. Th'ramu Paw Ray, Burma Migrant Worker Education Committee (BMWEC) chairperson said, "We are hoping that all the students - [Background History of 'International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples](https://ktwg.org/2017/09/background-history-of-international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples/) - By resolution 49/214 of 23 December 1994, the United Nations General Assembly decided that the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples shall be observed on 9 August every year. The date marks the day of the first meeting, in 1982, of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion - [Emergency Request For Karen State School Materials](https://ktwg.org/2018/01/emergency-request-for-karen-state-school-materials/) - KTWG has faced a serious funding gap since June 2017. As such KED and KTWG are releasing this emergency request: - [URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT: KAREN EDUCATION SYSTEM ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE](https://ktwg.org/2020/01/urgent-announcement-karen-education-system-on-the-brink-of-collapse/) - A key strategic partner of the Karen Education System with the mandate of ‘systems strengthening’ suddenly cuts funding by 80% compromising the education of over 160,000 ethic children and risking the collapse of the Karen Education System. For 25 years we have seen the steady development, expansion and refinement of the Karen Education System across - [TENDER CALL FOR IT ITEMS FOR INDIGENOUS RURAL AREAS](https://ktwg.org/2021/10/tender-call-for-it-items-for-indigenous-rural-areas/) - KTWG invites companies to respond to our tender application (see below). - [KTWG'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY](https://ktwg.org/2023/02/ktwgs-25th-anniversary/) - KTWG celebrated its 25th anniversary on 16 February 2023. The ceremony was in Kawthoolei. Despite warnings of imminent aerial bombings (participants had to go into hiding around midnight of Feb 16) and torrential winds and rains, the event went extremely well. KTWG is thankful for the commitment and passion of our staff and the - [Provision of Karen Traditional Clothes and Musical Instruments to the Universities’ Karen Literacy and Culture Committees by The Mon State Ethnic Affairs Minister](https://ktwg.org/2017/09/provision-of-karen-traditional-clothes-and-musical-instruments-to-the-universities-karen-literacy-and-culture-committees-by-the-mon-state-ethnic-affairs-minister/) - The Karen Ethnic Affairs Minister of Mon state, Saw Aung Mya Khine provided Karen traditional clothes and musical instruments to the Karen Literacy and Culture Committees of five universities in Mon state. The Minister, Saw Aung Mya Khine said that “The Students in the Karen Literacy and Cultural Committees from these universities have their art - [On March 16 and 21, 2023, Karen Teacher Training College (KTTC) North and South held their graduation ceremony for the 2022–2023 academic year.](https://ktwg.org/2023/03/on-march-16-and-21-2022-karen-teacher-training-college-kttc-north-and-south-held-their-graduation-ceremony-for-the-2022-2023-academic-year/) - On March 16 and 21, 2023, Karen Teacher Training College (KTTC) North and South held their graduation ceremony for the 2022–2023 academic year. We would like to congratulate the 69 teachers who have received their teaching certification diplomas after three years of participating in service programs, teaching practicals in community schools. Your hard work and - [Congratulations to the KTTC class of 2022-2023! We are excited to see what the future holds for these remarkable individuals.](https://ktwg.org/2023/03/congratulations-to-the-kttc-class-of-2022-2023-we-are-excited-to-see-what-the-future-holds-for-these-remarkable-individuals/) - We are delighted to announce that the Karen Teacher Training College (south) students have graduated from the 2022-2023 academic year. We are extremely proud of their hard work and dedication, which have culminated in this achievement. Throughout their academic journey, these KTTC students have demonstrated exceptional academic performance, outstanding leadership skills, teamwork, and community service. - [TENDER ANNOUNCEMENT FOR COVID-19 KITS](https://ktwg.org/2021/10/tender-announcement-for-covid-19-kits/) - [2018 Pre-service Teacher Preparation Course Graduation (KTWG & Thabyay)](https://ktwg.org/2018/09/2018-pre-service-teacher-preparation-course-graduation-ktwg-thabyay/) - [KTWG Project Coordinator Position to Support Karen Refugee Education](https://ktwg.org/2018/09/ktwg-project-coordinator-position-to-support-karen-refugee-education/) - [လံာ္ဖးဒီးကုိသရ၃္တလ၊တပွဲzဒီးထံရူ ၊္ကီ ၊္သဲးတ ၊္ထံ၃္တအိ၃္ဘ၃္အဃိ ကဲထီ၃္တ ၊္ကီတ ၊္ခဲလ၊ တ ၊္ကသိ၃္လိကညီလံာ္အဂီ ၊္](https://ktwg.org/2017/10/လံာ္ဖးဒီးကုိသရ၃္တလ၊တပွ/) - [International Scholars ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား](https://ktwg.org/2017/10/international-scholars-ႏုိင္ငံတကာ-ေက်ာင္းသာ/) - The University of British Columbia (UBC) ၏ ႏုိင္ငံတကာေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားမွာ ကမ ၻာကို အေျပာင္းအလဲလုပ္ႏုိင္မည့္စြမ္းရည္မ်ားကို ပုိင္ဆုိင္ထားၾကပါသည္။ ၎တုိ ့သည္ ျမွင့္မားေသာ Academic စြမ္းရည္ကုိ ေအာင္ျမင္ထားၾကျပီး ထူးျခားေသာ သင္ရုိးျပင္ပ လႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ားကို သရုပ္ေဖာ္ျပသခဲ့ၾကျပီး မိမိတုိ ့၏ လူမႈအဖြဲ ့အစည္းအသီးသီးတြင္ ျပန္လည္ေပးဆပ္ရန္ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္မ်ားခ်ထားၾကပါသည္။ ႏို္င္ငံတကာ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အစီအစဥ္ အေၾကာင္း အဆင့္ျမွင့္တကၠသိုလ္တစ္ခုတြင္ ကမ ၻာ့အသိအမွတ္ျပဳဘြဲ ့ဒီဂရီတစ္ခုကုိ ရယူလိုက္ပါ။ UBC ၏ ဘြဲ ့ဒီဂဂရီတစ္ခုသည္ ကမ ၻာေပၚရွိ အားလုံးအတြက္ တံခါးမ်ားကို ဖြင့္ေပးသြားမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ၾကီးမားေသာေက်ာင္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ားကြန္ယက္တြင္လည္း ပါ၀င္ခြင့္ရလာမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ကမ ၻာ့အထက္ျမက္ဆုံးေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ အတူတကြ ပညာသင္ျခင္း ႏုိင္ငံတကာ - [ဖတ္စာအုပ္မ်ား မလုံေလာက္မႈ၊ ဆရာ၊ ဆရာမမ်ားမလုံေလာက္မႈႏွင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးဆႏၵမရွိျခင္းသည္ ကရင္စာေပသင္ၾကားျခင္းအတြက္ အဟန္ ့အတားျဖစ္ေစ](https://ktwg.org/2017/10/ဖတ္စာအုပ္မ်ား-မလုံေလာက္/) - ကရင္ျပည္နယ္တာ၀န္ရိွသူတစ္ဦးမွ ကရင္ဘာသာစကားႏွင့္စာေပသင္ၾကားမႈအား ေက်ာင္းမ်ားမွာ သင္ၾကားခြင့္မရေအာင္ ဟန္ ့တားပိတ္ပင္မႈမ်ားျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကေသာ ေက်ာင္းအုပ္မ်ားအား ေ၀ဖန္ေျပာဆုိလုိက္ပါသည္။ “ဒီႏွစ္အတြက္ ဖတ္စာအုပ္မ်ား မထုတ္ရေသးပါဘူး။ ေက်ာင္းအုပ္အခ်ိဳ ့ဟာ ေက်ာင္းစာသင္ခ်ိန္မ်ားထိခုိက္သြားမွာကို စုိးရိမ္တဲ့အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားစာေပသင္ၾကားျခင္းကို အလုိမရွိၾကပါဘူး။ အခ်ိဳ ့ေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ ကရင္စာေပကို ေလ့လာခ်င္ၾကတ့ဲေက်ာင္းသားေတြရွိေပမဲ့ သူတုိ ့ကို သင္ဖုိ ့ဆရာေတြမရွိပါဘူး။ သင္ၾကားႏုိင္တဲ့ဆရာေတြက ကရင္မရွိတဲ့ရြာေတြကို ေျပာင္းေရႊ ့ခံထားရပါတယ္” လုိ ့ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္စာေပႏွင့္ယဥ္ေက်းမႈေကာ္မတီဥကၠ႒ ေစာေအးျမက ေျပာဆုိသြားပါသည္။ ”လူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစုံရွိတဲ့ေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ ကရင္စာသင္တဲ့ အခ်ိန္ရဖုိ ့လက္ေတြ ့မွာ အေတာ္ေလးခက္ခဲပါတယ္၊ တခ်ိန္တည္းမွာ ျမိဳ ့ေပၚက မိဘေတြက သူတုိ ့ကေလးကို ကရင္စာဖတ္ဖုိ ့၊ ကရင္လုိေျပာဖုိ ့တိုက္တြန္းေလ့မရိွၾကပါဘူး” လုိ ့ေစာေအးျမကဆက္ေျပာပါတယ္။ ကရင္စာေပႏွင့္ယဥ္ေက်းမႈေကာ္မတီမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ား၏ေျပာဆုိခ်က္အရ ကရင္စာကို - [KTWG Appreciate Letter on 'World Teacher Day' (Burmese Version)](https://ktwg.org/2017/10/ktwg-appreciate-letter-on-world-teacher-day-burmese-version/) - [KTWG Recognition Letter on 'World Teacher Day'](https://ktwg.org/2017/10/ktwg-recognition-letter-on-world-teacher-day/) - [ဟီ၃္ခိ၃္ဒီဖ်၊၃္ကိုသရ၃္မု ၊္နံzဟဲကဲထီ၃္သးအဂ့ ၊္](https://ktwg.org/2017/10/ဟီ၃္ခိ၃္ဒီဖ်၊၃္ကိုသရ၃္/) - [World Teachers' Day ကမ ၻာ့ဆရာမ်ားေန ့](https://ktwg.org/2017/09/world-teachers-day-ကမ-ၻာ့ဆရာမ်ားေန-့/) - ကုလသမဂၢ ကမ ၻာ့ဆရာမ်ားေန ့ကို အရည္ေသြးျမွင့္ ပညာေရးအား အဆင့္ဆင့္မွ ပံ့ပုိးသင္ၾကားၾကေသာ ဆရာမ်ား၏ အခန္းက႑အား ဂုဏ္ျပဳေသာ အေနျဖင့္ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ၾကပါသည္။ ဤသုိ ့ဆရာမမ်ား၏ သင္ၾကားမႈေၾကာင့္ ကေလးႏွင့္လူငယ္မ်ားမွာ သင္ယူေလ့လာမႈ၌ပါ၀င္ခြင့္ရၾကျပီး မိမိတုိ ့၏ ေဒသခံလူမႈအဖဲြ ့အစည္းႏွင့္ ကမ ၻာ့လူမႈအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းအား အက်ိဳးျပဳႏုိင္ရန္ မ်ားစြာအေထာက္အကူျဖစ္ေစပါသည္။ Teachers are recognized for their contributions to society on World Teachers' Day ဆရာမ်ားေန ့တြင္ လူမႈအသိုင္းအ၀ုိင္းအား အက်ိဳးျပဳ လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈမ်ားအတြက္ ဆရာမ်ားအား အသိအမွတ္ျပဳၾကပါသည္။ လူေတြဘာလုပ္ၾကပါသလဲ? ေအာက္တုိဘာလ ၅ ရက္ေန ့ႏွင့္ ထုိေန ့၀န္းက်င္တြင္ ကမ ၻာတလႊား ႏုိင္ငံအေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားတြင္ - [ဟီဥ္ခိဥ္ဒီဖ်၊ဥ္ ပွzထူလံzဖိအမု ၊္နံz အတ ၊္စံဥ္စိzဂံ ၊္ထံး](https://ktwg.org/2017/09/background-history-of-the-international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peopleskaren-version/) - [တ ။္ဃိထံသ့ဥ္ညါ က်ိာ္လ၊တ ၊္ၾက၊းသိဥ္လိအီzဖဲတီzပူz](https://ktwg.org/2017/09/တ-။္ဃိထံသ့ဥ္ညါ-က်ိာ္လ၊တ/) - [အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ ကမ ၻာ့ ဌာေနတုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးမ်ားေန ့၏ ေနာက္ခံသမုိင္းအက်ဥ္း](https://ktwg.org/2017/09/အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္-ကမ-ၻာ့-ဌာ/) - ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာခံ၏ ၁၉၉၄ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၃ ရက္ေန ့ ျပဌာန္းခ်က္ အမွတ္ ၄၉/၂၁၄ အရ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၉ ရက္ေန ့အား အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ ကမ ၻာ့ ဌာေနတုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးမ်ားေန ့အျဖစ္ ႏွစ္စဥ္က်င္းပရန္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ ဌာေနတုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ား၏ လူ ့အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားအား ကာကြယ္ျမွင့္တင္လုပ္ေဆာင္မည့္ ေကာ္မရွင္ခဲြျဖစ္ေသာ ကုလသမဂၢ လုပ္ရွားမႈအဖဲြ ့၏ ပထမအၾကိမ္ အစည္းအေ၀းျဖစ္သည့္ ၁၉၈၂ ခုႏွစ္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၉ အား ဂုဏ္ျပဳသတ္မွတ္ထားျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ၁၉၉၀ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာခံမွ ၁၉၉၃ ခုႏွစ္အား အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ ကမ ၻာ့ ဌာေနတုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးမ်ားႏွစ္အျဖစ္ ေၾကညာခဲ့ပါသည္။ ေနာက္ပုိင္းတြင္ အေထြေထြညီလာခံမွ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာ ကမ ၻာ့ - [KTWG and the QUEST Project(Burmese Version)](https://ktwg.org/2017/09/ktwg-and-the-quest-projectburmese-version/) - ကရင္ေက်ာင္းဆရာမ်ားအဖဲြ ့(KTWG) ႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းလုပ္ေဆာင္သည့္ #QUEST(Quality Cross Border Education Support in Thailand) ပေရာဂ်က္မွ အရင္က လုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့ျခင္းမရွိေသာ ကရင္ေဒသအတြင္းရွိ ကေလးငယ္မ်ား၏ စာတတ္ေျမာက္မႈႏွင့္ ကိန္းဂဏန္းဆုိင္ရာ ကၽြမ္းက်င္တတ္ေျမာက္မႈအား ေလ့လာအကဲျဖတ္ႏုိင္ရန္ (၁၀) ရက္ၾကာ အေျခခံ ဆန္းစစ္အကဲျဖတ္မႈသင္တန္းအား လြန္ခဲ့ေသာလ၌ ထိုင္း၊ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ေဒသတေလွ်ာက္တြင္ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ေက်းလက္ေဒသ၌ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားေကာက္ခံရာတြင္ Kobo စနစ္အား ပထမဆုံးအၾကိမ္ အသံုးျပဳျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ဤဆန္းစစ္အကဲျဖတ္မႈတြင္ ေျခလ်င္ျဖင့္သာ ေရာက္ရွိႏုိင္ေသာ ေက်ာင္း (၇၀) ရွိ ကရင္ကေလးငယ္ေပါင္း (၁၄၀၀) ပါ၀င္ပါသည္။ ရလဒ္အေနျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ကရင္ေဒသအတြင္းရွိ ကေလးငယ္မ်ား၏ စာတတ္ေျမာက္မႈႏွင့္ ကိန္းဂဏန္းဆုိင္ရာ ကၽြမ္းက်င္တတ္ေျမာက္မႈအား ျမွင့္တင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏုိင္ရန္ စိန္ေခၚမႈအခက္အခဲမ်ားအား ေျဖရွင္းေပးမည့္၊ ကေလးငယ္မ်ား၏ လုိအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားႏွင့္ လုိက္ေလ်ာညီေထြျဖစ္သည့္ - [KTWG and the QUEST Project(Karen Version)](https://ktwg.org/2017/09/ktwg-and-the-quest-projectkaren-version/) - [စာေပႏွင့္ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈအား ထိန္းသိမ္းေစာင့္ေရွာက္ ျမွင့္တင္ေပးေသာ စာအုပ္မ်ားအား ဖန္းတီးထုတ္ေ၀ျခင္း](https://ktwg.org/2017/09/စာေပႏွင့္-ယဥ္ေက်းမႈအား-ထ/) - စာေပႏွင့္ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈအား ထိန္းသိမ္းေစာင့္ေရွာက္ ျမွင့္တင္ေပးေသာ စာအုပ္မ်ားအား ဖန္းတီးထုတ္ေ၀ျခင္း စက္တင္ဘာ ၆၊ ၂၀၁၇ စာေရးသူ - Kyle Barker ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံနယ္စပ္ႏွင့္ ထိစပ္ေနေသာ ထိုင္းႏုိင္ငံေျမာက္ပုိင္းရွိ ျမင့္မားေသာ ေတာင္တန္းေဒသ၏ ဘီးရာမ်ားထင္ေနျပီး ဖုန္ထေနေသာ လမ္းတေလ်ာက္ ထူထူထပ္ထပ္ ေတာအုပ္ထဲမွ ရွင္းလင္းျပီး ေတာေတာင္ႏွင့္ ခ်ိဳင့္၀ွမ္းမ်ားျဖင့္ ၀ိုင္းရံထားေသာ ေနရာေလးသည္ မွင္သက္ရႈေမာဖြယ္ရာ ျမင္ကြင္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္ေနပါသည္။ ေကာ္ေဇာမ်ားခင္းထားသေယာင္ ထူထူထဲထဲသစ္ပင္မ်ားအၾကား ပုန္းရႈိးကြယ္ရႈိးျဖင့္ “ခြန္းထစ္” ဟုေခၚေသာ ေ၀းလံေသာ ေက်းလက္ရြာေလး တည္ရွိပါသည္။ ေဒသတြင္း လွ်ပ္စစ္ဓာတ္အားေပးၾကိဳးလိုင္းႏွင့္ ဖုန္းဆက္သြယ္မႈလုိင္းမ်ား ေရာက္ရွိေစရန္ ေဆာက္လုပ္ခ်ဲ ့ထြင္မႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ တခ်ိန္က တသီးတျခား ရပ္တည္ခဲ့ေသာ ထုိ စေကာကရင္ရြာေလးအတြက္ အခြင့္အလမ္းအသစ္မ်ားအား ေဆာင္ၾကဥ္းလာသလုိ လူ ့မႈအသုိင္းအ၀ိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ ဖိအားမ်ားကိုလည္း ျဖစ္ေပၚေစပါသည္။ - [Myanmar Indigenous Network for Education (MINE) is Formed](https://ktwg.org/2014/02/myanmar-indigenous-network-for-education-mine-is-formed/) - The Myanmar/Burma Indigenous Network for Education (MINE) was launched on Friday 21st February, International Mother language day. An ethnic education seminar hosted by the Karen Teacher Working Group (KTWG) in Mae Sot from 12 – 14 February led to the creation of MINE. The seminar was facilitated by Dr Joseph Lo Bianco, Professor of Language - [KTWG launches new film “Our Schools, Our Language and Our Future”](https://ktwg.org/2014/10/ktwg-launches-new-film-our-schools-our-language-and-our-future/) - The Karen Teacher Working Group (KTWG) launched its latest film “Our Schools, Our Language and Our Future” today in Yangon. The film investigates local education initiatives in communities across Karen areas of Eastern Myanmar. It shows KTWG’s work providing in service mobile teacher training, pre service teacher training, education assistance, community mobilization and support to - [Monthly Competition for KTTC Students](https://ktwg.org/2012/07/monthly-competition-for-kttc-students/) - On July 29, 2012, KTTC (Karen Teacher Training Collage) organized the second monthly competition for the students; this month it was a song competition. KTTC school teacher Th'ra Antonio said, "Mainly, we the teacher organize the competition for the students as we want them to use their skills, critical thinking and their own ability without - [KTTC Teachers and Students participate in Karen Nation Day Ceremonies](https://ktwg.org/2013/02/kttc-teachers-and-students-participate-in-karen-nation-day-ceremonies/) - On February 11st, 2013, North KTTC (Karen Teacher Training College) participated in Karen Nation Day Celebrations, which took place in Ei Htu Hta Camp for IDPs (Internally Displaced People). Saw Th'Dah Mei who is currently a student at KTTC and is the representative from Maguey Tavoy District, shared his own feelings when he said, "As - [Car Accident Damaged School Materials, A Child Died](https://ktwg.org/2013/03/car-accident-damaged-school-materials-a-child-died/) - A truck which carried Karen State Education Assistance Group (KSEAG) school materials got an accident on the 25th of February, it damaged some school materials and truck driver's child was dead in the accident. The accident happened around 06:00am on Tak-Maesot high way near the entrance to Maesot. h'ra Ko Lo Htoo, a coordinator of - [TPC 2nd Graduation](https://ktwg.org/2013/03/tpc-2nd-graduation/) - TPC (Teacher Preparation Center) held their 2nd graduation on 26th February in Mae Pa, Mae Sot. In this ceremony 68 teachers graduated and are now ready to serve in their areas; 18 of them are Karen. Many leaders attended the event, including a minister from the Thai MoE (Ministry of Education), Tak Provence. Mi No - [OKRSO Opened ToT Teacher Training](https://ktwg.org/2013/03/okrso-opened-tot-teacher-training/) - Oversea Karen Refugee Social Organization (OKRSO) opened ToT(Training of Trainer) in Klong Toei, in Bangkok on 10th March. The opening ceremony was held at Heart Convent School and more than 50 people were attended. Saw Hsiet Plong, a culture and literacy committee chairperson said, "Our objective is to let young Karen people who are coming - [Refugee Camp Mystery Fire Burnt, Killed Students, Teachers Includes Some Schools](https://ktwg.org/2013/03/refugee-camp-mystery-fire-burnt-killed-students-teachers-includes-some-schools/) - Camp Needs Emergency Relief Mae Surin Karenni refugee which burnt by mystery fire on the 22nd May at 14:20PM till 17:30PM killed 37 people Included 15 students, 3 teachers, 2 education staff and injured more than 200 people. 1 middle school, 2 primary schools, 2 nursery schools and more than 400 houses were destroyed by - [GBS and IHE Graduation](https://ktwg.org/2013/04/gbs-and-ihe-graduation/) - GBS(Global Border Study) and IHE(Institute of Higher Education) which run in Nu Poe Refugee Camp held their graduation ceremony yesterday. More than 100 people including parents and camp resident attended the event. Naw Eh Wah Paw, who finished 2 years of study at GBS and undertook her internship with KTWG (Karen Teacher Working Group) for - [Ta'ang Summer Vacation Training Successfully Completed](https://ktwg.org/2013/05/taang-summer-vacation-training-successfully-completed/) - Ta'ang SVT (Summer Vacation Teacher Training) which organized in Namchang village, Lashio Township was successfully closed on the 4th May. In this training, thirty local Ta'ang teachers was attended the training. Ashin U Sarsana, an abbot who organized SVT said, "I'm happy and proud to welcomed SVT in the monastery and it was very first - [EBCS Visits Shan Summer Vacation Workshops](https://ktwg.org/2013/05/ebcs-visits-shan-summer-vacation-workshops/) - 23 Summer Vacation Teacher Training Workshops are being implemented across Eastern and Northern Burma by the Eastern Burma Community Schooling (EBCS) project's partners. During April and May, KTWG's EBCS staff are visiting as many of these workshops as possible. 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Your support can make a real difference. $10 can provide a child with school supplies for an entire year. $50 can supply a classroom with educational games and storybooks. $100 can fund essential teaching materials for - [Contact](https://ktwg.org/contact/) - [About Karen Teacher Working Group (KTWG)](https://ktwg.org/about/) - Our Vision and Mission Our Vision Retention and promotion of Karen language, culture, history, identity and local governance. Our Mission To improve the quality of and access to education for Karen and other indigenous children in Burma. How we implement our mission We work toward improved quality of and access to education for Karen children - [Fast facts on Burma](https://ktwg.org/fast-facts-on-burma/) - Acknowledgement: Thanks to Karen News (karennews.org) The Population Burma has an estimated population of 55 million people, though no official census has been taken since 1983. The majority of Burma’s people are ethnic Burmans, and other ethnic groups (including Shans, Karens, Mon, Arakan, Chin and Kachins) add up to some 30 percent of the population. - [Tender Announcement for IT Devices for Indigenous Rural Areas](https://ktwg.org/tender-announcement-for-it-devices-for-indigenous-rural-areas/) - KTWG invites companies to provide quotations on the following items. Please see attached. - [KTWG Teacher training manual](https://ktwg.org/ktwg-teacher-training-manual/) - Central to all KTWG activities is our training manual, 'In the Hands of Teachers' which we developed and have been refining since 1998. The training manual and trainee's guide, attempt to bring together modern educational theory with Karen cultural teaching-learning processes. The training manual provides instructions for the trainer as well as content and activity - [Karen Language Resources](https://ktwg.org/karen-language-resources/) - Karen Language Course We welcome all to our Karen language course. We developed this course for foreigners working with the Karen people in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border. The course provides basic phrases for everyday use. You can also click the audio files to listen to the proper pronunciation. The course is organized into - [Our Programs](https://ktwg.org/our-programs/) - In Service Teacher Training KTWG’s Mobile teacher trainers (MTT) have been providing in service training for Karen teachers since 2001. MTT visit teachers in their schools, observe their classroom practices and provide support and feedback. Based on classroom observation and feedback from teachers MTT provide training in response to identified needs. Short training sessions for - [Useful links](https://ktwg.org/useful-links/) - Karen Organizations Drum Echo Karen Environment and Social Action Network (KESAN) Karen Women's Organization (KWO) Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) Education Resources Drum Publications (including Karen-English Dictionary) The Curriculum Project Mote Oo Karen/Burma Advocacy Support Amnesty International Burma Education Partnership (UK) Burma Issues Earthrights International Free Burma Rangers The Border Consortium (TBC) News organisations Karen - [Resources](https://ktwg.org/resources/) - Resources Karen Language Resources Karen Language Course We welcome all to our Karen language course. We developed this course for foreigners working with the Karen people in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border. The course provides basic phrases for everyday use. You can also click the audio files to listen to the proper pronunciation. The - [ဟီ၃္ခိ၃္ဒီဖ်၊၃္ကိုသရ၃္မု ၊္နံzဟဲကဲထီ၃္သးအဂ့ ၊္](https://ktwg.org/300-2/) - [Movies](https://ktwg.org/movies/) - KTWG Movies [Youtube_Channel_Gallery feed="playlist" user="PL6F93A963CC913B16" videowidth="480" ratio="16x9" theme="light" color="white" autoplay="0" rel="1" showinfo="1" maxitems="20" thumb_width="215" thumb_ratio="16x9" thumb_columns_ld="4" thumb_order="1" title="1" description="1" thumbnail_alignment="top" descriptionwordsnumber="20"] - [Community Mobilisation](https://ktwg.org/community-mobilisation/) - Community Mobilisation The program While visiting schools and teachers, our mobile teacher trainers (MTT) engage with parents and communities to support children’s learning and around education issues more broadly. We conduct parent education sessions to help parents, who may have limited education themselves, understand the value and benefit of education for their children. The sessions - [School Management](https://ktwg.org/school-management/) - Strengthening School Management The program Through our programs we support and help to strengthen school management. We do this at the local level by supporting head teachers and school management committees and by supporting the Karen Education Department’s (KED) education administration system. Our mobile teacher trainers engage local school management during their visits to communities - [Multi-ethnic Network](https://ktwg.org/multi-ethnic-network/) - Multi-ethnic Network - Eastern Burma Community Schooling Project (EBCS) The program In 2011 as the situation in Burma was evolving, KTWG recognized the need to connect with other ethnic groups across the country. We shared our model of working in Karen areas and helped develop a multi ethnic network of education actors. This network is - [Pre Service Teacher Training](https://ktwg.org/pre-service-teacher-training/) - Pre Service Teacher Training (Karen Teacher Training Colleges) The program The first Karen Teacher Training College opened in June 2004 as a training center for Karen youth interested in becoming teachers in schools in Karen State, Burma. A second campus opened in 2007. The colleges provide a two-year pre service teacher training program for aspiring - [In Service Teacher Training](https://ktwg.org/in-service-teacher-training/) - In Service Teacher Training The program KTWG’s Mobile teacher trainers (MTT) have been providing in service training for Karen teachers since 2001. MTT visit teachers in their schools, observe their classroom practices and provide support and feedback. Based on classroom observation and feedback from teachers MTT provide training in response to identified needs. Short training - [Education Assistance](https://ktwg.org/education-assistance/) - Education Assistance (Karen State Education Assistance Group - KSEAG) The program The Karen State Education Assistance Group was formed in 2005 to provide education assistance to Karen schools in Eastern Burma. Every year we provide teacher stipends, teaching materials, student learning materials and recreation equipment to schools across Eastern Burma. In 2013/2014, KSEAG supported 6154 ## Categories - [News](https://ktwg.org/category/news/) - [Join Us](https://ktwg.org/category/join-us/) - [Tender](https://ktwg.org/category/tender/)