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 there remains in crisis. A whole generation has been deprived of education and training in vital skills; the effect on Burma's future is incalculable.

In response:

• We give scholarships to needy Burmese students, regardless of religious or ethnic background, some of whom are refugees. The short term effect is that individual lives are transformed by the qualifications they gain with our support, which enable them to find meaningful work and start to rebuild their lives.
  
  
• In the long term, we are helping to build a vital task force for Burma's future. All our students are committed to returning home when possible and to using their new expertise to rebuild civil society in Burma when the time comes.
  
  
• In consultation with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi we have identified certain subjects as vital to the future of Burma. We make a priority of those subjects, which include public health, education, the environment, human rights and technological development. In many cases, when our students return, their skills will literally be unique within Burma, as these are areas of expertise which are developing and changing fast while knowledge inside Burma stands still, isolated as it is from the rest of the world.
  
  
• In addition to the main scholarship programme, we fund English language and vocational courses for Burmese refugees and migrants within Asia.  In Delhi, where there are over 10,000 Burmese refugees we have been running an English Language and computer school. Have a look at the school. We also help fund the Teacher Training for Burmese Teachers Centre in Chiang Mai funded and directed by Prospect Burma Trustee, Dr Thein Lwin, and are currently developing and monitoring a three year Prospect Burma  Education Project with his Centre.