100 Schools

On January 1st 2025 we completed our 100th school.
This school is a high school built in the village of Own Ton in Mandalay Division.
There is also a 2 floor library and Teacher Accomadation.
This is the same village where we built our very first school in 2005 which is a primary school.

August 22nd 2025. We are now building the 104th School in Ma Gyi Kan in Mandalay Division. Amazing, we have passed our aim of building 100 schools in Myanamr.
See pictures of the hard working volunteers from Ma Gyi Kan village helping build the school and photos of the construction.

24th April 2022
Please check out 100schools.org. Look under " News" section.
From 2004 - 2022 over 80 durable schools have been built.

Sand plays a very important part in the construction of a school. It's part of the foundation, it's used in making the bricks and it's part of the mixture in the concrete.
For that reason it is very important that we use the right kind of sand. There are several different kinds of sand, sand which is mixed in with the earth, sea sand, desert sand and fresh water river sand. The only type of sand which is properly suitable for construction purposes is the freshwater river sand. This is not always readily available but nonetheless even if it means trucking it in from a long distance away,it is the only type of sand we ever use .
In the first photo grainy , raw earth sand , and in the second photo smooth and fine freshwater river sand.

22nd. March 2021 With each school we build, Maung Maung Gyi and the crew somehow come up with a new idea to make that next school a little better than the previous one. To give you an example, lately, we've started making our own aluminum frame desks using the first quality teak for the desktoptop. These desks are very strong but they are also lighter in weight which makes it much easier for the children to move them to the side of the classroom each day when it's time to sweep the floor. Plus the teak tops are by far the best type of material for the students to do their schoolwork since teak is the only wood that we know of that does not warp so even over time the desktops still remain flat. The children also really enjoy being in a classroom with clouds on the ceilings . No doubt it makes it easier for them to daydream during class.
Another thing we started doing a while back is to plant young trees in front of each school when we build it so that three to four years down the road when the trees have grown up, during the hot season the children can eat their lunch under their shade.

March 12th 2021
Ye Twin Kaung a Primary school in Sagaing Division. Looking lovely and now finished!

Toilets for the students at Kyat Twin Kan School, Kyaukpadung Township in Mandalay Division.
Kindly donated by Save the Children U.S.A
November 2020.

November 15th 2020.
78TH SCHOOL. Than Htaw Gyi School in Kyaukpadung Township , Mandalay Division completed. A Middle school, grades 5-8.
Kindly donated by Save the Children U.S.A

Little students at Kyat Twin Kan School. Nov. 2020

77th SCHOOL :Kyat Twin Kan school completed. 3rd November 2020.

3rd November 2020. Completed school: Kyat Twin Kan School in Kyaukpadang Township in Mandalay Division. This is a Middle school , grades 5-8.
Kindly donated by Save the Chilldren U.S.A.