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The
Su Htwe is a little girl, born on 7th
July 1995. She is from Hlaing Tharyar, a new township in Yangon,
some 20kms north-west of the city centre. Most of its 160,000 inhabitants
have been resettled from slums around Yangon. People have few job
opportunities and struggle to earn a living from casual labour on
construction sites, or by working in local factories. Families often
end up in debt simply trying to make ends meet.
People suffer many poverty-related problems, such as bad health,
malnutrition, skin diseases and diarrhoea, especially among children.
Many children do not attend school because parents cannot afford
fees, or they have to work to help support their families. People
lack basic services like electricity and rely on candles and firewood,
which increases the hazard of fire in the thatch-roofed huts. A
lack of sanitation and access to clean water also contribute to
poor health.
Child sponsor funding enables World Vision to work in partnership
with local communities to help improve the quality of life for families
in Hlaing Tharyar. To find out more about World Vision's work, click
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