On March 28, 2025, a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar near Mandalay, causing widespread devastation for the nearby populations. The epicenter was just 17 kilometers from the city, and tremors were felt across the country, reaching as far as Thailand.
When a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28 of this year, ADRA was quick to act – thanks to the strength of our network, our partnerships, and our supporters.
The BRIGHT project, implemented by ADRA, focuses on improving access to education for conflict-affected communities, with a particular emphasis on empowering girls and women.
During our Easter campaign in 2023, you learned about Aissa – a 15-year-old girl in Niger who’s involvement in the BRIGHT project helped her reignite her education journey.
Through your commitment to ADRA, you are part of bringing education to children in hard-to-reach and fragile places. But education is more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. It’s also learning about one’s value as a human. It’s learning, perhaps for the first time, of the inherent rights one is born with. This kind of education is just as life changing as that which happens in a classroom.
Do you have a teacher that greatly influenced you? I think we all do. They’ve enriched our lives and we enjoy the benefits to this day.
In many countries, especially those that suffer from conflict, students don’t have the chance to benefit from the wisdom and guidance of good teachers. Your support is helping to change that.
17-year-old, Nang San Noon is from Myanmar. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nang San Noon was unable to attend school. A short time later, the BRIGHT project came to her village and introduced a vocational training program. Nang San Noon became interested in this, and since she was no longer able to … read more
ADRA Canada will partner with Global Affairs Canada to implement the project BREAKING Barriers, Improving Girls Education, Hope and Totality (BRIGHT). ADRA Canada believes that every child everywhere has the right to an education. Through the BRIGHT project, ADRA will work over the course of four years (2020-2024) to make education available in … read more
Aye Aye lives in a remote village in the Kayin state of Myanmar. When she was still quite young her father died and her mother had a difficult time supporting the family without him. Like many of the Karen people who live in Kayin state, she decided to cross over into Thailand and … read more
Ever since she was a child, Bu Ja Pu has heard the sounds of gunfire and shelling where she grew up in the Kachin State of Myanmar. It is a seemingly never-ending internal conflict that has been going on since 1961. In spite of the conflict, Bu Ja Pu was able to attend … read more
