If people are educated they can check the government abuse of power, if people remain uneducated the government can rule and oppress as it wishes.
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In 1991, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent campaign for democracy in Burma. In tribute to her fearlessness and in keeping with our mission to educate young Burmese who will contribute to and become guardians of Burma's democratic development, Prospect Burma adopted the chin-thei for its symbolic attributes of courage and guardianship. The Burmese chin-thei or leogryph (a mythological half-lion, half-griffin) symbolizes courage and vigilance. It will be familiar to anyone who has visited Burma as pairs of these distinctive maned and seated creatures with flame-like decorations are commonly found on either side of the entrances to Burmese Buddhist temples where their role is to keep watch and to ward off evil spirits. They mark the point at which visitors to temples must remove their shoes and socks before beginning to climb the stairway leading to the temple platform and shrines. The huge guardian chin-thei figures at temple entrances are usually made of brick, which is plastered over and stuccoed, and painted in bright colours or dazzling whitewash. In World War II, the chin-thei was adopted as the emblem of General Orde Wingate's famed Chindits (their name being a corruption of the Burmese term), the long range penetration force that fought behind the Japanese lines in 1943 and 1944. |
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American Friends of Prospect Burma
1 Mar 2012Zali Win, Director of our US support group, American Friends of Prospect Burma, was a welcome visitor at our basement office in London recently. Zali has been instrumental in reigniting American Friends of PB which was originally set up by[…]
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Prospect Burma Alumni - the "ripple effect" of your support.
1 Mar 2012
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Having trained over 300 community health workers at the Health and Hope centre in Mizoram last year (all of whom are now back working in remote villages in Chin state), PB alumnus, Dr Sasa, is building a new centre in[…] -
Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31st March 2011
1 Feb 2012
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2010-11 Annual Report and Financial Statements.pdf
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