Kayan Community Development Services

Kayan Community Development Services is a non-profit organization that serves to improve the life of the Kayan people. We increase education and do community development projects.

Vision

  • Accessibility to equal rights and multi-development opportunities regardless of ethnicities or religious.
  • Access to basic and higher education for everyone.
  • Promote the development and benefits to the people in Kayan region, Myanmar.

Our Value

  • Respect and accept the differences (ethnicities, religious, physical base, age, gender, properties base).
  • Respect to equality and human rights (local culture, child rights, woman rights, disabilities rights and gender rights).
  • Do no harm to community and environment.
  • Corporate with others (individual, local authority or organizations).
  • Know Individual and Social responsibilities.
  • Accountability on actions.
  • Value organizational ethics (honesty, no bias, no corruption, lead with example, and respect individual)

Overall Goal

  • To promote education and the sustainable community development among Kayan region in Myanmar.

KCDS provide basic and higher education, community development, awareness raising and sustainable training activities, ethnic culture conservation and environmental conserve activities. 

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SRHR training at Kin Bon Taw IDPs camp

YLED program 2021-2022 academic year

What we do

Our vision

We want to see our Kayan people not just survive the day but thrive. Our vision is to see a world in which all Kayan people have access to education, electricity, transportation, health care, adequate nutrition, clean water and employment opportunities.

Our projects

Currently only 5% of children in Middle Kayan Region in Myanmar finish high school. There are many obstacles standing in the way of children receiving education. There is only one high school for over 55 villages, and this means that children must walk very far through mountains every day if they are to attend school. Because of poverty, many children go to work in the farms instead of going to school.

Read about the Boarding House Project

As our project goal: to empower young people with leadership and community development skills to make positive changes in their own communities. KCDS have done several activities during these years. Such as, Leadership Empowerment training for 28 young participants, PAL community analyses training. The quantities were not go well as we planned but the qualities of these participants will surely make a big change of the region if they can continuously use the skills from this project training.

Read about the Leadership Empowerment Project