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15/04/2026

🌼Happy Thingyan and Myanmar New Year from all of us at Prospect Burma.🌼

We are thinking warmly of our students and alumni across Myanmar and worldwide.

We wish you and your families peace and strength in the year to come.

With our very best wishes,

Prospect Burma

01/04/2026

“When opportunity becomes a lottery.”

In this compelling guest blog, Prospect Burma alumna Pan Ei Ei Phyoe (DPhil, University of Oxford) shares her personal perspective on the UK’s recent announcement of study visa restrictions and its impact on Myanmar students. Click here to read:

A Prospect Burma alumna reflects on the UK’s decision to restrict student visas and what it means for Myanmar students.

23/03/2026

Even when Borders Close, Opportunity Remains Open

At a time when some pathways to education are closing for Myanmar’s young people, others remain intact.

We are deeply grateful to our higher education partners around the world for helping us support the next generation of Myanmar’s talented young leaders and innovators.

Through these partnerships, our student's study in-person at leading universities, learning alongside international peers, accessing world-class teaching and resources, and building the skills and networks needed to contribute to Myanmar’s future.

In 2023, we started to establish a new set of university partners to create Myanmar’s first online scholarship programme, ensuring that talented students who cannot leave their country can still access high-quality international education.

All of this is made possible by supporters like yourself. Your donations fund tuition and living costs, internet access, and deliver mentoring, mental health support, and tailored guidance—ensuring that our students overcome challenges and pursue their education with confidence and purpose.

The impact our students create is clear in the stories shared through our Founding the Future campaign. From alumni leading community development projects, protecting the environment and establishing alternative education spaces, to our online students running community health initiatives in Myanmar’s most dangerous conflict areas, each story shows how education empowers them to create meaningful change.

Your support ensures that nothing - not even borders - can block our students’ ambition. Every donation helps a Myanmar student continue their education, develop essential skills, and create a brighter, stronger future for their country. Invest in Myanmar’s future today.

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17/03/2026

A Scholar’s Journey: Nolan’s Path Through Conflict and Education

When the 2021 Myanmar military coup disrupted Myanmar’s fragile education system, thousands of young people suddenly saw their futures placed on hold. Schools closed, universities stopped functioning, and an entire generation of students was left uncertain about whether they would be able to continue their education. In the midst of this national crisis, Nolan chose not only to protect his own academic path but also to create opportunities for others.

In 2021, he helped establish the Fire Fly Education for All project in a rural village in Rakhine State. At a time when formal schooling had collapsed, the project became a vital learning space for students affected by poverty and conflict. Nolan served as head teacher, organising lessons, mentoring students, and ensuring learning could continue despite the instability around them.

What began as a small community initiative became a symbol of resilience. Students studied with limited resources and under difficult conditions, yet many have now successfully completed high school and are planning their next steps into university.

While working to sustain education for others, Nolan’s own life was shaped by displacement. Seeking safety, he eventually crossed into Thailand, where he lived without formal documentation and faced daily uncertainty. Continuing his education under these circumstances required extraordinary determination.

His perseverance was eventually rewarded. With the support of a Prospect Burma scholarship, Nolan completed his Associate Degree with Honours, an achievement that reflects both academic excellence and remarkable resilience.

Today, Nolan continues his Bachelor’s degree with a clear goal: one day returning to Myanmar as a public health professional, helping rebuild communities that have endured years of conflict and instability.

Nolan’s story is a powerful reminder of the impact education can have. Even in the most difficult circumstances, he helped keep learning alive for rural students while continuing to pursue his own future.

If you would like to support scholars like Nolan, please consider making a donation to Prospect Burma. Our students are extraordinary individuals who are not only pursuing their own education but are building better futures for the communities they call home.


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08/03/2026

Six women.

All frontline health professionals.

All working in regions where hospitals have been damaged, occupied, or destroyed.

By day, they treat patients in conflict-affected communities.
By night, they study for their Master’s degrees in public health, pharmaceutical management, procurement and supply chain management, and digital health.

Since 2021, Myanmar’s formal health infrastructure has been dismantled. In its place, community-based systems have emerged — fragile, under-resourced, but determined.

These six women are part of that system.

Through Prospect Burma's online scholarship programme delivered in partnership with international higher education institutions, they are completing advanced qualifications while remaining in service to their communities.

This is more than education.

It is clinical leadership in crisis.
It is more resilient medicine supply chains.
It is digital health innovation.
It is public health strategy under pressure.
It is the long-term rebuilding of a nation’s healthcare system.

On International Women’s Day, we recognise not only their resilience — but their expertise, their commitment, and their leadership.

They are not waiting for the future.
They are building it.

05/03/2026

Prospect Burma is deeply saddened to learn of the UK Home Office decision to stop issuing study visas to students from Myanmar.

Since our foundation in 1989 as a UK charity dedicated to expanding access to international higher education for young people from Myanmar, we have supported 71 talented and committed students to study at universities across the UK. Upon graduation, most have returned to Myanmar to serve as lawyers, civil society leaders, journalists, environmentalists, health professionals and educators.

These students were not driven by personal gain but by a strong sense of responsibility to build the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to make a positive difference in their home country.

At a time when Myanmar faces unprecedented challenges from nationwide conflict ignited by the 2021 coup, investment in higher education is essential. The students we support consistently demonstrate their resilience and integrity. Many of our alumni return to work in education, healthcare, environmental protection, governance and community development. Others contribute through cross-border partnerships and capacity-building initiatives that directly benefit people and communities on the ground.

Applicants for our in-person scholarship programme look to the UK and its world-leading universities as a place where they can excel in their education and look forward to their future careers with ambition and purpose. We believe in the power of education to build bridges and strengthen long-term international relationships. Restricting access to UK universities risks isolating a generation of young leaders and impoverishing the wider experience of higher education for all learners.

Prospect Burma remains committed to supporting Myanmar students in their pursuit of education and to advocating for pathways that enable them to learn, grow, and contribute meaningfully to their country’s future.

For enquiries, please contact [email protected]

04/03/2026

Our students demonstrate extraordinary resilience, determination, and commitment to both learning and community service — often pursuing education in the face of conflict, displacement, and profound uncertainty.

Aung Si Kyaw’s education was interrupted by crisis, but his commitment to learning never stopped. Now studying Global Economy at a university in Japan, he continues to serve displaced communities in his home country of Myanmar while preparing for a career in conflict recovery.

Born and raised in Rakhine State, he was the first in his family to attend university.
Three months later, COVID-19 closed the Yangon University of Economics.

Civil war followed. Then came internet shutdowns. His dream of higher education seemed over. But his commitment to his community never stopped.
He volunteered in IDP camps, ran a mobile library, and joined a youth association — determined to keep learning and serving.
With Prospect Burma’s support, he gained an IELTS qualification which helped him to secure a place at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan to study for a bachelor's in Science in Global Economy, and gained a partial tuition fee waiver.
Prospect Burma is providing him with a scholarship to cover the remaining tuition fee and supplement his living costs.
He has not forgotten Myanmar.

Alongside his studies, he has supported Karenni refugee communities along the Thai border through youth workshops, and plans to mentor students hoping to access higher education.
His goal is to research development policy and conflict resolution so he can help rebuild opportunities in Rakhine State and across Myanmar.

He is not just following in the footsteps of Prospect Burma alumni. He is shaping what comes next.



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17/02/2026

Alumni Impact – Public healthcare in Myanmar

In the Shan–Kayin border area, underinvestment in public health services, long-standing conflict and population displacement have left many communities with minimal access to healthcare. Remote terrain and insecurity make it difficult for local people to reach clinics, increasing vulnerability to tuberculosis, malaria, maternal health complications, malnutrition, and unsafe water and sanitation.

Our recent online diploma graduate is helping communities build the skills to care for themselves. She trains local health workers, auxiliary midwives and peer educators, while helping establish village health committees and mother-support groups to improve access to care, strengthen early referral systems, mitigate the spread of disease, and increase nutrition support for some of the most hard-to-reach communities.

May’s postgraduate diploma in Digital Health, supported by Prospect Burma, equipped her with practical skills to use digital tools to interpret test results, strengthen communication and supervision with health workers and volunteers, and improve patient record management. “These skills have made me more efficient in my work and helped me to make evidence-based decisions that strengthen our programmes.” Prospect Burma is now supporting May to continue her studies online for a Master’s in Global Procurement and Supply Chain Management so she can “better manage the purchase and distribution of humanitarian kits and other essential supplies.”

This is what long-term investment in education makes possible: people equipped with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to strengthen communities, improve healthcare, and protect the wellbeing of the most vulnerable.

The Future Was Founded Here.

12/02/2026

The future was founded here. Through education. Through people.

Long-term investment in education creates graduates like Kyaw Myo Lwin, who are applying specialist knowledge to restore ecosystems, protect coastal communities, and strengthen Myanmar’s response to climate change.

Myanmar is already experiencing the effects of climate change, while more than 60% of the country’s mangrove forests have been lost in the past 20 years — putting coastlines, fisheries, and livelihoods at risk. Restoring these ecosystems is now a critical task.

After receiving a Prospect Burma scholarship in 2019 to study for a Master’s degree in Forestry, Kyaw Myo Lwin returned to Myanmar to work with an international NGO developing programmes focused on blue carbon ecosystems, including mangroves, seagrasses, and seaweed.

“When I completed my Master’s, I returned to support the Haing Gyi project in the southern Ayeyarwady region and successfully established 206 hectares of mangrove plantation. I have since been promoted to Carbon Officer at the Head Office, where I use the skills developed in my studies to calculate how much carbon mangrove forests absorb, helping us design projects and monitor their success.”

Kyaw Myo Lwin’s Master’s research, ‘Establishment of site- and species-specific allometric models of dominant mangrove species and estimation of mangrove biomass in the Letkhokkon area, Myanmar’, was published in Tropics and is available here: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tropics/advpub/0/advpub_SIMM01/_article

The Future Was Founded Here.

26/01/2026

We’ve had an amazing response to our in-person international scholarship opportunity for 2026/27 with over 1300 applications in progress on our site.

The application window closes on 31 January, and the team is now preparing for the review process.

If you are interested in learning more about our scholarships and the talented students we support, please contact us today.

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If you’d like to support young people from Myanmar to access education, you can make a donation here:
https://donorbox.org/founding-the-future-campaign

21/01/2026

At Prospect Burma, we believe that education transforms lives. Our scholars are exploring new ideas, building skills, and discovering their passions every day.
Even in times of uncertainty, learning creates hope, creativity, and resilience. We are proud to support talented young people in Myanmar as they grow, explore, and inspire tomorrow.
Let’s celebrate the bright possibilities that education brings! 💛

If you’d like to support young people from Myanmar to access education, you can make a donation here:
https://donorbox.org/founding-the-future-campaign