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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.


village women sift gravel to make the concrete floor blocks at Aund
Nyint


Class at Thripitsaya before the new building was built


Primary School at Thegaunde before windows, wall, and new block floors
were added.