Last year the Kiwanis Club of Gaylord proved itself truly
international in scope when it supported work initiated in
Myanmar (Burma) by one of its members. Pete Clapp, working
with the Global Community Service Foundation, has funded school
improvements in the villages of Kya-O, East Palinn, Nyaung Oo,
Thegaunde, Aund Nyint, Thin Thaunt, Sinluang, Thiripitsaya, Twin
Hwa, and Tet Thein.The $1000 grant from Kiwanis of Gaylord
was added to other monies which went improve village school
buildings (metal in place of palm-thatch roof, concrete instead
of dirt floors, windows where there were none, and added
school rooms and walls). In a half-dozen or so of these villages
the common pit toilets for the schools were replaced with new
flush toilets with septic tanks and fields. A media room was
established in one school which had access to electricity. In
addition, efforts were made to purify the water in an ancient
reservoir, which fills during the rainy season and is used by
several villages for the next 8 months although it is a source
of many water-borne diseases.
Pete will be going back again in November - continuing to
bring U.S. currency into the country for these projects.
Kids like their "new" school at Aund Nyint -- no more dirt
floors.
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