BEAM Education Foundation

From uncertainty to opportunity ✨

Phyu Phyu Khaing was forced to leave school at 15—but she didn’t give up. With BEAM’s support, she found direction, earned an international scholarship, and is now studying Business Administration at the University of the People.

“Trust yourself. One day, you’ll realize how far you’ve come.”

Read her inspiring journey 👇
https://beamedu.org/beam-student-continues-her-education-journey-through-international-scholarship/

BEAM Student Continues Her Education Journey Through International Scholarship | BEAM By BEAM Staff “I am overjoyed that what once seemed impossible is gradually becoming reality,” says Phyu Phyu Khaing. “Since there is no educational gap and […]

Sometimes, all it takes is one decision to change everything.

From feeling lost and unsure about his future to earning a fully funded scholarship—Lyang Mai Twan’s journey is a powerful reminder of what’s possible with the right support and determination.

Through BEAM’s GED program, he found direction, confidence, and a community that believed in him. Today, he’s pursuing his university education without financial burden and dreaming bigger than ever—aiming to build a socially responsible business that gives back to society.

“Just do it. It could be the turning point in your life.”

Read his inspiring story and discover how one step can shape your future.

🔗👇

https://beamedu.org/lyang-mai-twans-journey-to-a-fully-funded-future/

Lyang Mai Twan’s Journey to a Fully Funded Future | BEAM By BEAM staff “I was lost. I had no direction, and I didn’t even feel confident enough to imagine a future,” says Lyang Mai Twan. Originally […]

[Burmese Version Below]

Bees’ Club is now calling for applications from Myanmar youth for the 4-day Youth Leadership Exchange for Peace (YLEP) program, where participants will have the opportunity to learn, discuss, and exchange ideas together with university students from the United States.
Throughout the four-day program, participants will engage in the following activities:
• Visits to significant cultural and historical sites in Chiang Mai to explore local heritage and traditions
• Cultural exchange between Myanmar youth and Utah Tech students
• Participating in sessions on Peace Building, Conflict Resolution, Leadership, and Storytelling
• First Aid and CPR Training, equipping participants with essential life-saving skills
• Joining Chiang Mai city tour and nature trip
• Meeting with local community-based organizations and individuals

This YLEP program marks the third collaboration between BEAM and Utah Tech University, designed for youth who are seeking meaningful experiences and opportunities for personal growth during the summer.

📍 Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
📅 Program Dates: May 15 (Friday) - May 18 (Monday)
📍 Eligibility: Applicants must be currently residing in Chiang Mai or nearby areas.

Agenda link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JoR6mkddoHqwj-irYnZ5teD7sQQ2S_CahE8T_g_p37k/edit?usp=drivesdk

Application Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddiHtjv7-pEzV7CXyEhKePNBhLxu6oE8TIvFuZo7KF33rmZw/viewform?usp=header
Application Deadline: April 25 (Saturday) 11:59 p.m.

📝 Selection Process
All applications will be carefully reviewed. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview, after which final participants will be selected.

Bees’ Clubမှ မြန်မာလူငယ်များအတွက်
အမေရိကန်ကျောင်းသားများနှင့်
အတူတကွ သင်ယူ၊ ဆွေးနွေး၊ ဖလှယ်နိုင်မည့်
4ရက်တာ Youth Leadership Exchange For Peace(YLEP) ကိုပါဝင်ရန်လျှောက်လွှာများခေါ်ယူနေပါပြီ။

ယခု (4)ရက်တာ(YLEP) programတွင် Activitiesများအနေဖြင့်
• ချင်းမိုင်မြို့၏ အထင်ကရနေရာများကိုသွားရောက်ပြီး ယဉ်ကျေးမှုအနုပညာများကိုလေ့လာခြင်း။
• အမေရိကန်ကျောင်းသားများနှင့် မြန်မာကျောင်းသားများအကြား ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဖလှယ်ခြင်း။
- Peace Building, Conflicts Resolution, Leadership Session and Storytelling Workshop Sessions များကို သင်ယူခြင်း။
• Essential life-saving skillsတစ်ခုဖြစ်တဲ့ First Aid & CPR Training များအပြင်
• Chiang Mai City Tour
• ချင်းမိုင်မြို့ရှိ လူမှုအကျိုးပြု အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၊ လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များနှင့်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း
တို့ပါဝင်တာဖြစ်လို့နွေရာသီမကုန်ခင်အချိန်လေးမှာအတွေ့အကြုံအသစ်များရှာဖွေနေတဲ့မြန်မာလူငယ်တွေအတွက်သင့်တော်သောနေရာတစ်ခုဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

📍 Eligibility
ချင်းမိုင်မြို့အတွင်းနှင့် အနီးတစ်ဝိုက်
နေထိုင်သူများသာ လျှောက်ထားနိုင်ပါသည်။
📅 Program Duration – May 15 မှ 18 ရက်နေ့အထိ

Agenda link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JoR6mkddoHqwj-irYnZ5teD7sQQ2S_CahE8T_g_p37k/edit?usp=drivesdk

Application link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddiHtjv7-pEzV7CXyEhKePNBhLxu6oE8TIvFuZo7KF33rmZw/viewform?usp=header
Application Deadline ကတော့ 25ရက် Aprilလ (စနေနေ့) ည၁၁နာရီ ၅၉မိနစ် အထိဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

📝 Selection Process
လျှောက်ထားသူများထဲမှ ရွေးချယ်ထားသော applicants များကို
interview session မှတဆင့်ဆက်လက်
ရွေးချယ်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

[English Version below]

ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ စနေနေ့ (မတ်လ ၂၁ ရက်) က ကျွန်တော်တို့ရဲ့ Bees’ Club နဲ့ BEAM အဖွဲ့သားတွေဟာ Chai Lai Orchid နှင့် Daughters Rising အဖွဲ့သားများဆီကို လေ့လာရေးခရီး သွားရောက်ခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။ 👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏼🐝🌸

Daughters Rising အဖွဲ့အနေနဲ့ ပညာရေး၊ အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကျောင်း သင်တန်းတွေနဲ့ လူမှုအသိုင်းအဝိုင်း ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး စတဲ့လုပ်ငန်းတွေကတစ်ဆင့် မိန်းကလေးငယ်တွေနဲ့ အမျိုးသမီးငယ်တွေရဲ့ စွမ်းဆောင်ရည် မြှင့်တင်ပေးနေပုံတွေကို အနီးကပ် လေ့လာခွင့်ရခဲ့တာဟာ တကယ့်ကို မျက်စိပွင့် နားပွင့်ဖြစ်စေတဲ့ အတွေ့အကြုံတစ်ခုပါပဲ။ 💁🏻‍♀️✨

ဒေသခံ တိုင်းရင်းသား လူနည်းစု အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းနှင့် အမျိုးသမီးငယ်တွေအတွက် ဘေးကင်းပြီး ရေရှည်တည်တံ့တဲ့ အခွင့်အလမ်းတွေ ဖန်တီးပေးနိုင်ဖို့အတွက် သူတို့ရဲ့ ကြိုးပမ်းအားထုတ်မှုတွေကိုလည်း အများကြီး သင်ယူခဲ့ရပါတယ်။

ဒီခရီးစဉ်မှာ နှစ်ဦးနှစ်ဖက် လုပ်ဆောင်နေတဲ့ လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်တွေ၊ အတွေ့အကြုံတွေကို ပွင့်ပွင့်လင်းလင်း ဖလှယ်ခွင့်ရခဲ့သလို၊ လူငယ်စွမ်းဆောင်ရည် မြှင့်တင်ရေးဆိုတဲ့ မျှော်မှန်းချက်နဲ့ ​​ရှေ့​လျှောက် ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်​စေမယ့် တူညီတဲ့ အခြေအနေတွေကိုလည်း ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြပါ​သေးတယ်။📄
​ဒါ့အပြင် အဖွဲ့ဝင်တွေအနေနဲ့ Daughters Rising ရဲ့ စီမံကိန်းတွေ၊ မိန်းကလေးငယ်တွေအတွက် scholarship အခွင့်အလမ်းတွေနဲ့ ဒေသခံ တိုင်းရင်းသားတွေအတွက် အကျိုးပြုနေတဲ့ Chai Lai Orchid ရဲ့ လူမှုစီးပွား​ရေး လုပ်ငန်းတွေကိုလည်း လေ့လာခွင့်ရခဲ့ပါတယ်။

ဗဟုသုတတွေတင်မကဘဲ ဆင်လေးတွေကို အစာကျွေးတာ၊ ရေတံခွန်ဆီ သွားရောက်တာ စတဲ့ သဘာဝနဲ့ ထိတွေ့ခွင့်ရတဲ့ အစီအစဉ်တွေကြောင့် ဒီခရီးစဉ်ဟာ ပိုပြီး အဓိပ္ပာယ်ရှိကာ အမှတ်တရဖြစ်စေခဲ့ပါတယ်။ 🐘🌊⛰️

အခုလို နွေးထွေးစွာ ကြိုဆိုပြီး စိတ်ခွန်အားတွေ ပေးခဲ့တဲ့ Daughters Rising အဖွဲ့ကို အထူးပင် ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိပါတယ်။ ဒီအရာ​တွေကို တန်ဖိုးထားပြီး နောက်အနာဂတ်မှာလည်း ရေရှည်လက်တွဲသွားနိုင်ဖို့ကိုလည်း မျှော်လင့်မိပါတယ်။

Just like bees visiting flowers to spread pollen, our Bees’ Club and BEAM staff spent this past Saturday (March 21) visiting the inspiring team of Daughters Rising at Chai Lai Orchid. 🐝🌸

It was an eye-opening experience to dive deep into their missions of empowering girls and young women through education, vocational training, and community initiatives. We learned so much about their commitment to creating safe, sustainable opportunities for marginalized ethnic communities.

The visit created a space for open exchange, where both sides shared their works, experiences and discussed potential areas for future works, with a shared vision of youth empowerment.
Throughout the visit, members were introduced to the organization’s various projects, scholarship opportunities for young girls and their impactful social enterprise at Chai Lai Orchid for the indigenous community. Moreover, our visit was further enriched by shared experiences in nature, including feeding elephants and visiting a waterfall, making the visit both meaningful and memorable. 🐘💦

A massive thank you to Daughters Rising for the warm hospitality and the inspiration. We’re so grateful for this connection and can’t wait to see how our relationship grows in the long run!

English & Thai Version Below 🇺🇸 🇹🇭

📢 Job Vacancy: Thai Literacy Assistant Teacher

BEAM Education Foundation is looking for a Thai Literacy Assistant Teacher to join our Non-Formal Education (NFE) Program in Chiang Mai. If you are passionate about supporting marginalized youth through education, we want to hear from you!

Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Employment Type: Full-time
Application Deadline: 5 April 2026
View full job description and apply here: https://beamedu.org/job-vacancy-thai-literacy-assistant-teacher/

📢 รับสมัครงาน: ผู้ช่วยครูด้านการรู้หนังสือภาษาไทย

มูลนิธิการศึกษาประกายแสง (BEAM) เปิดรับสมัคร ผู้ช่วยครูด้านการรู้หนังสือภาษาไทย เพื่อเข้าร่วมโครงการการศึกษานอกระบบ (สกร.) ณ จังหวัดเชียงใหม่ หากคุณมีความมุ่งมั่นในการสนับสนุนการศึกษาแก่เยาวชน มาร่วมเป็นส่วนหนึ่งกับเรา

สถานที่ปฏิบัติงาน: เชียงใหม่
ประเภทการจ้างงาน: ประจำ
หมดเขตรับสมัคร: 5 เมษายน 2569
ดูรายละเอียดงานทั้งหมดและสมัครได้ที่นี่: https://beamedu.org/job-vacancy-thai-literacy-assistant-teacher/

Contact Information: 📧 Email: [email protected] 📞 Ph: 081-9938227

BEAM CYLD Application 2026-2027

Friendly reminder: Only 5 days left until the deadline—please make sure to submit on time.

Application Deadline: Feb 28th 2026

Hello!!

BEAM Education Foundation is calling for new applications to our Community Youth Leader Development Program for the 2026-27 school year. Community Youth Leader Development Program (CYLD) is the updated design of the former higher education preparation program (GED program), which operated as one of major activities at BEAM since its establishment in 2010.

What is the CYLD Program?
This intensive 10-month online learning program is for serious learners who are strongly motivated and ready to engage in rigorous academic and leadership training. While GED preparation is deeply challenging, this is NOT just a GED program; graduates from the CYLD program will be prepared for higher education and leadership within their communities.
Learn more here: https://beamedu.org/cyld-program/

Who can apply?
​​We encourage individuals ages 16 and up from marginalized communities, particularly Myanmar migrants and refugees, with strong aspirations and commitment to prepare for higher education and community leadership to apply for the program.

CYLD program instruction is conducted entirely online via Zoom and in English. Applicants should have an intermediate level English language skill (B2 or higher) to be eligible.

What is the application process?
APPLY - The application is open starting TODAY (February 2nd) until February 28th, 2026 (11:55 pm Thailand Time)
ENTRANCE EXAM - select students will be invited to take the CYLD entrance exam in March.
INTERVIEW - Students with the highest marks on the entrance exam will be invited to interview with CYLD staff.
SELECTION - final selections will be announced in the first week of June 2026.

If you have any questions, please message us on our page.

Application link: https://forms.gle/SmS74xw6CeefnK1S9

2nd Poster Featuring the Complete Lineup of University Programs & Scholarship Organizations for BEAM Education Fairs

📅 Save the Date!
When: February 24–26, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM
Where: Join us remotely via Zoom or tune in live on BEAM’s Facebook and YouTube channels.

🎓 Explore a full lineup of university programs and scholarship opportunities designed to help you take the next step in your academic journey.

Action Required:
Pre-register now through our landing page to receive the official meeting link. Don’t forget to submit your questions in advance—our Chat Moderator will make sure they’re addressed by the presenters during the live session.

Pre-register here: https://forms.gle/deaxJJSkXNK1e4ed7

We look forward to seeing you there!

🎓 SAVE THE DATE: BEAM Education Fair 2026 for perspective university applicant!

Are you interested in studying at a public university in Thailand but not sure where to start? Want to explore different majors and academic programs?

Come to the BEAM Education Fair. We are here to help you make the jump to higher education.

Coming Soon: We will release the full schedule of school presentations shortly. Stay tuned!

Need Guidance?
Is your goal to attend a Thai public university? Don't let confusion stop you. Register at the link below to connect directly with school officers and get the answers you need.

Pre-register Link: https://forms.gle/deaxJJSkXNK1e4ed7

When: February 24–26, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: Join us remotely via Zoom or watch our live broadcasts on BEAM Facebook and YouTube.

Action Required: Pre-register now via our landing page to receive the meeting link. Submit your questions in advance so our Chat Moderator can ensure they are answered by the presenters during the live session.

Don't wait—secure your spot and start your undergraduate journey today!

Hello!

Interested in joining BEAM’s Community Youth Leadership Development Program and want to learn more, but not sure where to start?

Join our CYLD Application Information Sharing Session to learn more about the program and get clear guidance on the application process.

📅 Date: [Friday, 13th Feb 2026]
⏰ Time: [8 pm Thai Time]
Platform: Zoom (link will be shared after registration)

Register now: [https://forms.gle/wdGpw4GBv6soh5az7]
Registration deadline: 12 February 2026

Do not miss this opportunity to get your questions answered and prepare your CYLD application with confidence.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Hello!!

BEAM Education Foundation is calling for new applications to our Community Youth Leader Development Program for the 2026-27 school year. Community Youth Leader Development Program (CYLD) is the updated design of the former higher education preparation program (GED program), which operated as one of major activities at BEAM since its establishment in 2010.

What is the CYLD Program?
This intensive 10-month online learning program is for serious learners who are strongly motivated and ready to engage in rigorous academic and leadership training. While GED preparation is deeply challenging, this is NOT just a GED program; graduates from the CYLD program will be prepared for higher education and leadership within their communities.
Learn more here: https://beamedu.org/cyld-program/

Who can apply?
​​We encourage individuals ages 16 and up from marginalized communities, particularly Myanmar migrants and refugees, with strong aspirations and commitment to prepare for higher education and community leadership to apply for the program.

CYLD program instruction is conducted entirely online via Zoom and in English. Applicants should have an intermediate level English language skill (B2 or higher) to be eligible.

What is the application process?
APPLY - The application is open starting TODAY (February 2nd) until February 28th, 2026 (11:55 pm Thailand Time)
ENTRANCE EXAM - select students will be invited to take the CYLD entrance exam in March.
INTERVIEW - Students with the highest marks on the entrance exam will be invited to interview with CYLD staff.
SELECTION - final selections will be announced in the first week of June 2026.

If you have any questions, please message us on our page.

Application link: https://forms.gle/SmS74xw6CeefnK1S9