Back to School in the Deltaေလေဘးသင့္ေဒသရွိ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အခက္အခဲၾကားမွ စာသင္ေနရ

Back to School in the Delta
By MIN LWIN
Thursday, June 12, 2008, -->

The new academic year started in Burma on June 2. In the Irrawaddy delta and the western suburbs of Rangoon, schoolchildren are returning to schools that still bare the scars of Cyclone Nargis.
In Kungyangone Township, 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of Rangoon, a primary school in the village of Manka Lane still had a gaping hole in the roof. Children arrived on the morning of June 2 for lessons; however, several students had to be taught in a plastic tent, according to residents in Kungyangone.
Schoolchildren have to study in their teacher's home at Ma Wun village of the Irrawaddy Delta because their classroom was damaged. (Photo: Reuters)“There is so much suffering at school and so much sadness and loss,” said a private secondary school teacher in Kungyangone Township. “Two of our students died in the cyclone.”
Aid agencies said that the May 2-3 cyclone destroyed and damaged an estimated 4,106 schools while 100 schoolteachers were killed. Most of the 1,255 schools completely destroyed by Cyclone Nargis were in the Irrawaddy delta. The education of an estimated 500,000 children has been disrupted.
An unknown number of schoolchildren were killed in the storm. However, aid agencies have said that 40 percent of the population are children and it is more likely that youngsters were killed in the tidal wave due to lack of strength. Therefore, if 134,000 are officially dead or missing, it would appear that between 50 and 60,000 children were killed by Cyclone Nargis, mainly in the delta region.
"Reopening schools before they are repaired can cause the children more misery and psychological harm," said a former headmaster in Rangoon.
Schoolchildren in Manka Lane village had to study in a tent because their classroom was damaged. (Photo: Moe Aung Tin/ The Irrawaddy)He said that reopening schools before they were adequately prepared and possibly unsafe would only exacerbate problems, leading to greater anxiety, trauma and a sense of isolation among children.
A Rangoon resident who returned from the delta said that text books and teaching materials for schools were lost in the tropical storm.
He told The Irrawaddy on Thursday that students were being taught in damaged buildings in Taw Kyaung village, five kilometers (three miles) from Kungyangone. “If it is raining, the students have to hold an umbrella in the classroom while they are reading or studying,” he said.
Residents in Kungyangone Township complained that the Asia World Company, a private contractor responsible for reconstruction in Kungyangone Township, has begun rebuilding in and around the town, but that schools in outlying areas have still not been repaired.
An official from the Burmese Department of Education No.1, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the military government had ordered the reopening of schools as quickly as possible, but that many of the schools were still in an unsafe condition for students.
She said, “The schools should be safe and secure environments, so that the students can attend and return to normal, and that the learning process can restart.
“The first task is not reopening schools and teaching—the first task we face is creating a safe and secure environment for our students,” she added.-->

ေလေဘးသင့္ေဒသရွိ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အခက္အခဲၾကားမွ စာသင္ေနရမိုးေအာင္တင္/ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္း

ဇြန္၁၂၊ ၂၀၀၈
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ဆိုး၀ါးစြာ ခံစားရသည့္ေဒသမ်ားရွိ စာသင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ားကို တျခားေဒသမ်ားနည္းတူ ဇြန္လ ၂ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ျပန္လည္ဖြင့္လွစ္ခဲ့ရာ ေနရာ မလံုေလာက္မႈေၾကာင့္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားမွာ ခက္ခဲစြာ စာသင္ၾကားေနၾကရသည္ကို ေတြ႕ရွိရသည္။
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္သင့္ မန္းကလိပ္ ေက်း႐ြာ မူလတန္းလြန္ေက်ာင္း (ဓာတ္ပံု - မိုးေအာင္တင္)
ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ မန္းကလိပ္ေက်းရြာ အုပ္စု ရွိ မူလတန္းလြန္ေက်ာင္းတြင္ ၁၂ေပx၂၀ေပႏွင့္ အျမင့္ ၅ေပ ခန္႔ရွိသည့္ အျဖဴေရာင္ ရြက္ဖ်င္တဲအတြင္း ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား စာသင္ၾကား ေနၾကရသည္ကို ေတြ႕ရသည္။
အဆိုပါရြက္ဖ်င္တဲမွာ ေဆာ္ဒီအာေရဗ်ႏိုင္ငံမွ လွဴဒါန္းထား ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး တဲ အလံုး ၃၀၀ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အန္ဂ်ီအို အဖြဲ႕ တဖြဲ႕၏ တာ၀န္ခံတဦးက ေျပာဆိုသည္။ ရြက္ဖ်င္တဲကို ေျမႀကီးေပၚတြင္ ထိုးထားျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး မိုးရြာ သည့္အခါ ေရ မျမဳပ္ေစရန္ အုတ္နီခဲမ်ား ခင္းထားသည္ ကိုလည္းေတြ႕ရသည္။
ေကာ့မွဴးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္း-ရန္ကုန္ ကားလမ္းေဘး ရွိေက်းရြာ မူလတန္းေက်ာင္းတြင္လည္း ၿပိဳပ်က္သြား သည့္ ေက်ာင္းအေဆာက္အဦမွ သြပ္မိုးကို၀ါးညွပ္ကာ ယာယီမိုး ထားသည့္ တဲထဲတြင္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အကာမဲ့စြာ စာသင္ ၾကားေနၾကရသည္ကို ေတြ႕ျမင္ရသည္။
ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္းရွိ ေက်းရြာမ်ားမွ မူလတန္း ေက်ာင္းမ်ားတြင္ မူလတန္းပညာေရးမွာ အခမဲ့ပညာေရး ျဖစ္သည္ ဆိုသည့္ စာတန္းကိုခ်ိတ္ဆြဲကာ ေက်ာင္းအပ္ လက္ခံေသာ္လည္း ဖတ္စာစာအုပ္မ်ားမွာ တစံုလ်င္ က်ပ္ တေထာင္၊ တေထာင့္ငါးရာ စသျဖင့္ အတန္းေပၚမူတည္ၿပီး ၀ယ္ယူရျခင္းျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ ေက်ာင္းသာမိဘတခ်ိဳ႕မွာ ယခုလိုကာလ တြင္ ၀ယ္ယူရန္မတတ္ႏိုင္ၾကဟုလည္း အဆိုပါ ရြာမ်ားတြင္ သြားေရာက္ ကူညီေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနသည့္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦး ကေျပာဆိုသည္။
ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းၿမိဳ႕မွ ၃မိုင္ေက်ာ္ေ၀းသည့္ ရြာအထက္တန္းေက်ာင္း တေက်ာင္းတြင္ တပိုင္းၿပိဳက်သြားသည့္ ေက်ာင္းေဆာင္ႏွင့္ ေခါင္မိုးလြင့္သြားသည့္ အပိုင္းတို႔ကို ျပန္လည္မျပဳျပင္ရေသးဘဲ အပ်က္အစီးၾကားထဲတြင္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား စာသင္ၾကားေနၾကရသည္။
သြပ္ျပန္မမိုးရေသးသည့္ ေနာက္ေက်ာင္းေဆာင္တေဆာင္အား ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ ကူညီသည့္ စစ္စိမ္းေရာင္ တာလပတ္ဖ်င္ကို ၀ါးျဖင့္ ယာယီညွပ္မိုးထားသည္ဟု အဆိုပါရြာမွ ရြာခံတဦးကေျပာျပသည္။
မိုးရြာလ်င္ အမိုးမွေရစိမ့္ယိုသည့္အတြက္ စာသင္ခန္းထဲတြင္ ထီးေဆာင္းေနၾကရၿပီး စာသင္ၾကားႏိုင္ျခင္းမရွိဟုလည္း ၎က ေျပာသည္။
ေက်ာင္းေဆာင္အျဖစ္အသုံးျပဳ စာသင္ေနရေသာ ႐ြက္ဖ်င္တဲတခု (ဓာတ္ပံု - မိုးေအာင္တင္)
ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းၿမိ႕ရွိ အထက္တန္းေက်ာင္းအေဆာက္အဦမ်ား ကိုသာ အဆိုပါနယ္ေျမတြင္ တာ၀န္ယူထားသည့္ ေအးရွား ေ၀ါလ္ကုမၸဏီမွ ဦးစားေပးျပင္ဆင္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ကားလမ္းေဘးရွိ မူလတန္းေက်ာင္းတခ်ိဳ႕မွာ ယခုတိုင္ မျပင္ဆင္ႏိုင္ ေသးသည္ကို ေတြ႕ရွိရသည္။
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ ခံရေသာ ဟိုင္းႀကီးကၽြန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အတြင္းရွိ ေက်ာက္ေခ်ာင္းေက်းရြာတြင္မူ အေဆာက္အဦ မလံုေလာက္ျခင္း ေၾကာင့္ တေန႔လ်င္ ႏွစ္ခ်ိန္တက္ေသာေက်ာင္းအျဖစ္ ေျပာင္းလဲကာ ယခုလ ၆ ရက္ေန႔မွ စတင္ ဖြင့္လွစ္ခဲ့သည္ဟု အဆိုပါ ရြာမွ ျပန္လာသူတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းတို႔မွ ဆိုး႐ြားစြာ ပ်က္စီးသြားခဲ့သည့္ စာသင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ား အားလုံးကို နဂုိအေနအထားျဖစ္ေစရန္ ျပန္လည္ ျပင္ဆင္ႏိုင္ျခင္းမရွိေသးေသာ္လည္း အစိုးရက အေျခခံပညာ ဦးစီးဌာန (ေအာက္ ျမန္မာျပည္) မွ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ပညာေရးမႉးမ်ားသို႔ တတ္ႏိုင္သမွ် ေစာလ်င္စြာ ေက်ာင္းျပန္ဖြင့္ရန္ ညႊန္ၾကားခ်က္မ်ားကို ေပးပို႔ထား သည္ဟု ပညာေရး၀န္ထမ္းတဦး က ေျပာဆိုသည္။နအဖ စစ္အစိုးရကမူ မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ခံရသည့္ ေဒသမ်ားတြင္ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ၿပီးစီး၍ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ႏိုင္ငံပိုင္သတင္းစာမ်ားတြင္ မၾကာခဏ ေဖၚျပေလ့ရွိသည္။

WFP Forbidden to Buy Rice from Local Dealers မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ စပါးစုိက္ဧကပ်က္စီးမႈ

WFP Forbidden to Buy Rice from Local Dealers
By VIOLET CHO
Wednesday, June 11, 2008, -->
An official from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has confirmed that the Burma

Local donators prepare bags of rice for cyclone survivors at a

monastery on the outskirts of Rangoon. (Photo: AP)

government has told the food relief

agency that it will no longer be permitted to buy rice from local dealers to feed survivors of

Cyclone Nargis.
“This is an issue that has come up, so we are preparing to import rice,” said WFP spokesman Paul Risley. He added, however, that the agency would “need to receive notification and approval from the government” before it could begin to import rice.
According to Risley, the WFP’s operations in Burma currently have only enough rice left to last another six weeks. The UN recently said that cyclone survivors in the hard-hit Irrawaddy delta could need food assistance for as long as a year.
Due to severe damage to rice fields and lack of farming supplies, many farmers will not be able to plant rice in time for this year’s monsoon season.
According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, about 200,000 hectares, or 16 percent, of the delta’s total 1.3 million hectares of agricultural land were severely damaged in the cyclone and would “not be available for planting this season.”As UN aid agencies express concern over possible food shortages in the coming year, the Burmese military government continues to deny that the country is facing a serious problem.On Wednesday, Soe Tha, the minister for national planning and economic development, described rumors that the country’s rice supplies were inadequate as “groundless.” “Some organizations were spreading groundless information such as there was or would be a shortage of rice in Myanmar [Burma],” he was quoted in the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper as saying.“The rice output in the storm-affected areas in Ayeyawady [Irrawaddy] and Yangon [Rangoon] Divisions made up only 2.3 percent of the nation’s total rice output. The uncultivable acreage is barely 1 percent of that of the whole nation,” he added.Despite such reassurances, however, the regime has cancelled planned exports this year of up to 600,000 metric tons of rice to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.The WFP has provided more than 11,000 metric tons of rice to storm-affected communities and all of this rice was bought from local rice dealers.Business sources in Rangoon suggested that the government’s decision to ban the WFP from purchasing rice from local dealers was unjustified.
“The government has a huge reserve of rice as they cancelled rice exports to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. If the government allowed it, it could be sold,” said a Rangoon businessman.
Cyclone Nargis hit Burma in early May, killing up to 134,000 people and leaving 2.4 million destitute.

မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ စပါးစုိက္ဧကပ်က္စီးမႈ တျပည္လုံး၏ (၆၀) ရာခုိင္ႏႈန္းရွိဟု အေမရိကန္အစိုးရမွန္း

NEJ/ ၁၂ ဇြန္ ၂၀၀၈

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ ပ်က္စီးခဲ့သည့္ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တုိင္း (၄) ခု၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီး မႈသည္ တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၆၀) ရာႏႈန္းနီးပါးရွိသည္ဟု အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္ စုိက္ပ်ိဳးေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။
ဧရာ၀တီ၊ ရန္ကုန္၊ ပဲခူး၊ မြန္ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တုိင္း (၄) ခု၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈသည္ ဧက (၁၀) သန္းရွိသည့္အတြက္ တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၆၀) ရာႏႈန္းနီးပါးရွိသည္ဟု ဇြန္လ (၁၀) ရက္ေန႔စြဲျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္သည့္ အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္စုိက္ပ်ိဳးေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။
အေမရိကန္အစိုးရ၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈ ခန္႔မွန္းခ်က္သည္ ျမန္မာစီးပြားေရးပညာရွင္မ်ား တြက္ခ်က္မႈႏွင့္ ကုိက္ညီေနသည္။ ျမန္မာစစ္အစ္ိုးရဘက္ကမူ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈကုိ မုန္တုိင္း က်ၿပီး (၁) လေက်ာ္သည္ထိ ထုတ္ျပန္ႏုိင္ျခင္း မရွိေခ်။
ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းရွိ ေရတုိ ေရရွည္ စပါးအပ်က္ႏႈန္းမွာ ပ်က္စီးမႈႏႈန္း အမ်ားဆုံးျဖစ္ၿပီး တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၃၇) ရာခုိင္ႏႈန္းရွိသည္ဟု အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းရွိ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၆.၄) သန္းအနက္ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၃) သန္း မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ပင္လယ္ေရ အလႊမ္းခံခဲ့ရသည္။
ေမလ (၃၀) ရက္ထိ ေလ့လာခ်က္အရ ပင္လယ္ေရ ျပန္က်သြားသည့္တုိင္ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၂.၇) သန္းမွာ အတုိင္းအတာတရပ္ထိ ေရက်န္ေနေသးသည္ဟုပါ အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္ စုိက္ပ်ိဳး ေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာက ေထာက္ျပထားသည္။ တနည္းဆုိရလွ်င္ မုန္တုိင္းအၿပီး တလၾကာ သည့္တိုင္ မူလက ပင္လယ္ေရလႊမ္းခဲ့သည့္ စပါးစိုက္ဧက၏ (၈၀) ရာႏႈန္း ေရက်န္ေသးသည္ဟု ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ။