Moegyo Humanitarian Foundation 2014 Highlights

Kani village High School building construction

With your support and donations, Moegyo Humanitarian Foundation is able to continue with the following activities and projects in 2014.

1. Moegyo Humanitarian Foundation donated US$1,000 to 3hird Medium (3M) in New York for their efforts in providing support for orphans and orphanages in Myanmar.

2. Continues providing monthly support of about $100 (100,000 kyats equivalent) to each to the following orphanages

   a. Mingalar Orphanage, Twantay Township, Myanmar

   b. Mya Theingi Orphanage, Yangon, Myanmar

   c. Kani Orphanage at Kani Village, Pyapon, Myanmar

   d. Pyinnyar Waddy Orphange at Kyite Latt, Myanmar

   e. Pay-Chaung Parahitta in Pay Chaung village, Kyite Latt, Myanmar

3. In addition to providing tutoring support for high school students who are taking university entry exams since June 2008 school year, Moegyo continues to provide scholarship of about $120 for each university and college student at Kani village and Kyite Latt. There are 26 university and college students currently receiving Moegyo scholarship for 2014-15 school year.

4. Continues providing monthly salaries of US$100 each for 9 teachers and US$80 for a maintenance personal at the Moegyo (1) Primary School in Panthapyay village near Lashio, Shan State, Myanmar.

5. Enables a construction project of a new High School building at Kani Village in Pyapon Township in Irrawaddy Division. So far, Moegyo was able to send over US$34,000 to fulfill the proposed construction project budget of US $40,000. See the photos of the new high school building near completion.

6. Due to the increasing numbers of students at Moegyo (1) Primary School in Panthapyay village in Lashio Township, Shan State, Myanmar, MHF is adding more classrooms, toilets and living quarters for the teachers. The foundation has funded the initial amount of US$20,000 for the project to start. Combined with construction and logistics cost, MHF estimated US$40,000 in total for the whole project and estimated to be completed by the late spring of 2015. The project manager from MHF is currently at the area overseeing the activities of the project.

7. Moegyo donated $10,000 to Myanmar Book Aid & Preservation Foundation in Myanmar to cover the logistics cost to send about 50,000 books full of container to the people of Myanmar from the United States.

8. The 7th Annual Moegyo Burmese Food Fair was held in Queens, New York on Sunday June 8th, 2014 and raised over $25,000 combined with donations.

9. On Sunday November 16, 2014, the first South Florida Burmese Food Fair was organized by Moegyo volunteers at Welcome Oriental Food Market at 1282 NW Federal Hwy, Stuart, in South Florida.

All this would not have been possible without your generosity, continued support and dedication.
Together, we can make a difference!

Thank you.

The Moegyo Team

7th Annual Moegyo Burmese Food Fair

Sunday, June 8th, 2014

12:00 noon to 3:30 pm

Long Island City
Aviation High School

 45-30 36th Street

Long Island City, NY 11101

Event entrance is on 35th Street

Corner of Queens Blvd and 35th Street

By Train: 7 train to 33rd St / Rawson St Station on Queens Blvd.

By Car: 35th Street between Queens Blvd (East Bound) and 47th Avenue

See the 7th Annual Moegyo Burmese Food Fair Menu.

 See the photos of 6th Annual Burmese food fair from last year.

REVIEWS

Dave of Eating in Translation said, "I arrived 15 minutes before the scheduled starting time and found the joint already jumping.".

Meg Cotner mentions Meogyo Burmese Food Fair as "the most anticipated food festivals in Queens" in the book "Food Lovers' Guide to Queens".

James Boo of the Eaten Path calls it, "a smörgåsbord of home-cooked Burmese food that joyously undoes New York’s lack of Burmese restaurants for one delicious day in Queens". 

Joe DiStefano of Chopsticks + Marrow calls it, "the grandaddy of them all Burmese food festivals".

Liz of GlobalAsianCulture.com said, "I just had the most amazing bowl of noodles in a long, long time.". 

Max Falkowitz of Serious Eats said, "lots of brothy noodles, salads with unexpected nuts, stewed meats, and slurpable desserts".

William of Edible Queens said, "Burmese food is just as amazing as I remember it."

Corey Reis of Marhaba Wa Aloha said, "As you don't often find Burmese food in Manhattan, I was looking forward to trying a new type of cuisine.".

Wendy Wong of Real Cheap Eats NYC said, "I got an excellent introduction to the cuisine at the Moegyo Humanitarian Foundation’s annual Burmese Food Fair in Long Island City, Queens."

This activity is not sponsored or endorsed by the New York City Department of Education or the City of New York.

Moegyo sends tens of thousands of books to the people of Myanmar (Burma)

Myanmar Book Aid & Preservation Foundation in Myanmar partnered with the Nargis Library Recovery in the United States has been working in rebuilding libraries and providing books to the people of Myanmar (Burma) since 2001. In 2013, it partnered with Daw Khin Kyi Foundation and Beyond Access to acquire and distribute books to the public libraries, schools libraries and universities across Myanmar. The process of shipping and distribution of 1,000,000 (a million) books donated by Thrift Books in the United States has begun in the late 2103 and expected to be completed by the end of 2014.

Moegyo Humanitarian Foundation is grateful to be able to provide the logistics cost to deliver a 40 foot container full of over 50,000 (fifty thousand) books from the United States to the people of Myanmar.