Prospect Burma

It's Party Time! and tickets are selling fast...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:50:14 GMT

Please come and join us to mark the 68th birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at a reception on Thursday 20th June, 2013 in the delightful surrounds of Petyt Hall in Chelsea. Every two years Prospect Burma hosts a Summer Event to raise funds to support our work in providing a university education to Burmese students - all of whom commit to return to Burma with their new found skills when possible - to help shape the future of their country. Despite all the exciting changes in Burma that are taking place in Burma, and even with the best will in the world, it will be many years before the country can provide a decent university education to her students, and yet Burma is crying out for skilled graduates right now. The educational support our donors enable us to carry out is more urgent than ever, and we are endorsed by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who provides funds for our work from her Nobel Peace Prize.

Mirian Margolyes has graciously agreed to be our Guest of Honor and Celebrity Auctioneer and we are inviting you to an evening of wine and Asian fusion canapes, an auction, a bookstall and a crafts stall, a chance to meet our students, updates on Burma, and the work of Prospect Burma. This year is our 24th anniversary and we are delighted to welcome three tour operators to the event who will be able to answer all your questions on travel to Burma. They are Audley Travel, Mountain Kingdoms and Trans Indus and we are grateful to them for their support. The event takes place at Petyt Hall, 64 Cheyne Walk, London SW3 5LT on Thurssday 20th June from 6 to 8.30 pm. There are only a limited number of tickets and they are selling fast so please reserve your place as soon as possible. Tickets for a donation of £40 a head are available by sending cheques and a stamped addressed envelope to Elizabeth Bluck, Prospect Burma, Porters' Lodge, Rivermead Court, Ranelagh Gardens, London SW6 3SF. Please remember to bring cash or a chequebook on the night as we are unable to process debit or credit cards.

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Enjoyed your visit to Burma?

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:17:23 GMT

So many people are now visiting Burma and return home touched by the experience. We recently had a generous donation and message to say "Our family enjoyed a cycling tour of Burma last autumn, and as a result of what we learnt and saw we understand how vital your work is for the future." If you have just returned from a trip, or are planning to go and would like to help educate students who will help to shape the future of Burma, please support our work. We would also be most grateful if you could ask your tour operatior to promote Prospect Burma. Mountain Kingdoms' clients are offered a facility to donate to Prospect Burma on their return, and we have received many generous donations from them. Thank you.

President Obama at Rangoon University

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:18:08 GMT

President Obama addressed the students of Rangoon University yesterday and said "The future of this country is determined by the education of its youth..." To listen to his full speech please press read more www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTAeJJnqhbo

New Year Sales

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Are you surfing the web for New Year Sales? We'd be extremely grateful if you could help us whilst you shop online. All you have to do is go to Give as you live, nominate Prospect Burma as your charity, and then sit back and spend. And for every gift you buy, we get a little donation! Thank you and very best wishes to all of you for a very Happy New Year from all the students you are helping Prospect Burma to support.

Pat Gore-Booth Scholarship Fund

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A million thank yous to all our generous supporters who have matched donations or just sent in their own to raise money for the Pat Gore-Booth Scholarship Fund. We have now raised over £30,000! Lady Gore-Booth, who had been involved with Prospect Burma from its beginning in 1989, and was Vice-Patron, died in February 2012, aged 90. The Pat Gore-Booth memorial scholarships were initiated by one of PB's staff donating their fee for the month, and since then more contributions have come in from Trustees, staff, her family, friends and supporters. To read more about the fund, download our Summer 2012 newsletter: Summer Newsletter 2012.

Summer Newsletter and Booklets

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:20:58 GMT

The Summer Newsletter featuring Daw Suu's visit to London is now out. To read all about it click here Summer Newsletter 2012 . We have also produced mini-booklets on the work we are doing inside Burma and in India. To read about Prospect Burma's work in Delhi, click on this link: Prospect Burma in Delhi and for information on some of our work inside Burma click here: Prospect Burma in Burma. Or, to have a look at our main brochure click on Prospect Burma brochure.

Thank you to the ACE Foundation

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:49:05 GMT

Many thanks to the Trustees of The ACE Foundation (www.acefoundation.org.uk) for contributing so handsomely to our scholarship programme.

Aung San Suu Kyi and the People of Burma in the United Kingdom

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:53:57 GMT

Prospect Burma was delighted to be involved with the Burmese community in organising "An encounter with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the People of Burma in the United Kingdom" on June 22nd at the Royal Festival Hall. Prospect Burma's Chairman, Robert Gordon, had the honour of welcoming Aung San Suu Kyi, and following a brief meeting with Prospect Burma's Trustees, she addressed her people in Burmese and then took on a question and answer session before watching a cultural performance of song and dance.

Photo copyright Homer Sykes

American Friends of Prospect Burma

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:58:10 GMT

Zali 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 the late Jack Ringer, whose son, Jacob is also a director. We now have a preliminary US website http://www.prospectburma.us/
through which credit cards can be used to make donations. We are looking for help with fundraising in the US and if you think you can help us please contact Zali through the US website, or email me: beth@prospectburma.org

Prospect Burma Alumni - the "ripple effect" of your support.

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:31:01 GMT

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 Lailenpi, inside Chin State, due to open in April to train a further 400 community health workers. Our thoughts are with him and the community health workers whose skills are now aiding the lives of over 130,000 Burmese people in 147 villages, who previously had no access to medical care. Through the generosity of our supporters, Dr Sasa received a scholarship from Prospect Burma for seven years, and graduated as a doctor in 2009. All Prospect Burma's scholarship students commit to return to Burma with their new found skills when possible.