Announcements

CLASSICAL CONCERT  ON SEPTEMBER 22ND

Please come to a Classical Concert in the gracious surrounds of The Savile Club in London on Wednesday, 22nd September at 6.30pm.

We are extremely privileged to have Akiko Ono and three of her students from the Menuhin school on violin and Nathan Williamson on piano.  

The programme is Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor and Dvorjak: Piano Quartet in A Major.

Tickets are priced at £20 for a welcome drink and the concert, and a three course dinner with wine is available for an additional £30.

Bookings direct to The Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, London W1K 4ER  Tel: 020 7629 5462
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ANOTHER BOOK AUCTION!

PROSPECT BURMA is offering for sale to highest bidders books on Burma that have recently been donated to us. All funds raised are used to support the scholarships programme. If you wish to purchase any books please send in your bids by SEPTEMBER 30 2010 at latest (using the bidding form provided at the end of the list) either by post to: PROSPECT BURMA, BOOK AUCTION BIDS, c/o PORTER'S LODGE, RIVERMEAD COURT, RANELAGH GARDENS, LONDON SW6 3SF, UK, or by email (putting BOOK AUCTION BIDS in the subject header) to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please do not send any cash/cheques with your bid. Successful bidders will be notified and invoiced, with postage and packing added at actual cost. Prospect Burma reserves the right to withdraw a lot. Books are hardback copies unless specified as paperback (p/b).

Please alert your Burma bibliophile friends to our book sale. Copies of the list can be downloaded below:

 Prospect Burma Book Auction List

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We hope you will bid generously to help us find a good home for the books AND thereby enable us to fund more students desperately in need of our support. We thank all those who responded to our earlier Spring book sale.

BURMESE ARTS FESTIVAL

The inaugural Burmese Arts Festival (October 14th to 17th) brings together a unique group of Burmese contemporary artists and artists inspired by Burma to London's Free Word Centre. Curated by Prospect Burma supporter and internationally acclaimed artist and performer, Htein Lin, the festival will include a celebration of Burmese culture.
For more information visit www.burmeseartsfestival.com

Message to all students
You can now meet fellow Prospect Burma grantees in our new Facebook group, available to all students and alumni. If you would like to join please read the instructions in the Student News section.  

PROSPECT BURMA gives young Burmese people access to education – one of the United Nation’s fundamental human rights. Since 1988 Burmese universities have been repeatedly closed and education remains in crisis. A whole generation has been deprived of education and the effect on Burma’s future is incalculable. 

Since our foundation in 1989 we have funded scholarships for over 1,500 Burmese students, enabling them to qualify as professionals and to go on to work for Burma both inside and outside the country.

We also fund free English language tuition for desperately poor Burmese refugees in Delhi, a teacher training programme for Burmese in Thailand who in turn train other teachers in Burma, and English language courses inside Burma. 

As the message below attests, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi endorses the work we do and she generously donates part of the income from her Nobel Peace Prize and other prizes towards our work. 

If you would like to apply for one of our scholarships or make a donation, click Scholarships or How to Help.

DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI APPEALS
FOR PROSPECT BURMA

The future of my country lies in the hands of the younger generation. Under the present military government the whole educational system is neglected and higher education is virtually non-existent with the frequent closure and repressive control of the universities. Prospect Burma is a non-political charity which does its best to fill the gap. It funds scholarships for young Burmese, most of whom have been forced to look for their education abroad. It arranges training and educational courses in Thailand and elsewhere. I warmly commend its work to you, and hope that you might be able to offer it financial help.

Aung San Suu Kyi