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Kangyidaunt Community, Myanmar

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Kangyidaunt Community, Myanmar
  • Population31,593
  • Villages44
  • Temp 23°C
In Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region, families in the rural community of Kangyidaunt rely on farming to survive. But climate pressures and limited services are making it harder to provide for their children — leaving many without the health, protection and support they need to thrive.

Sponsorship is helping to tackle 3 big challenges facing children in Kangyidaunt:
  1. Families can’t earn enough to provide for their children.
  2. Many children suffer from malnutrition.
  3. Children are at risk of violence and child marriage, with limited systems to help keep them safe.

Building a brighter future together


By sponsoring children in Kangyidaunt, you are making an incredible difference in the lives of vulnerable children and their families.

Your support is helping improve the physical, emotional, spiritual and social well-being of the most vulnerable children in the Kangyidaunt community.

Through decades of experience, we have proven that the most effective way to help a child is to strengthen their entire community, caring for every child along the way.

Together, we are tackling the hard problems, changing mindsets and behaviours, and addressing the root causes of poverty. By working alongside children, families and community members, we are helping create lasting change that will benefit generations to come.

Your support will make a life-changing impact for children in Kangyidaunt

You’re helping set up savings groups, equip families to start small businesses, and train farmers to grow more crops and income.

You’re helping improve community health services, strengthen nutrition support, and ensure vulnerable children receive care when they need it most.

You’re helping strengthen local protection networks, raise awareness of children’s rights, and ensure vulnerable children receive the support they need.

Meet some of the children and families you'll stand alongside

Thet, 23-year-old mum-to-be: "For a pregnant woman, walking that far is exhausting, but there is no other choice."

Thet, 23-year-old mum-to-be: "For a pregnant woman, walking that far is exhausting, but there is no other choice."

Thet is seven months pregnant with a baby boy. The nearest health centre is nearly an hour's walk from her home, and in the wet season the road barely qualifies as one. She's been to the local health education sessions, and she knows what her body needs. The challenge is being able to afford it. Her husband's daily wages stretch only so far now that she can't work. "If something happens suddenly," she says, "how will we reach help in time?No mother should have to ask that question. Thanks to your support, more women are accessing the care and support they need for safer pregnancies, safer births, and healthier futures for their children.

Kyaw, 50-year-old dad: "I did everything right. I followed every instruction. I spent nights without sleep, sitting with them, focused entirely on saving them.

Kyaw, 50-year-old dad: "I did everything right. I followed every instruction. I spent nights without sleep, sitting with them, focused entirely on saving them.

Kyaw is a dad of three and one of eight farmers chosen to lead his village into modern livestock farming. World Vision's training gave him the skills to breed, to feed and to manage his animals as a way to support his family. He applied every lesson but when his two piglets fell ill, he sat up through the nights worried. "I kept thinking of my children's future," he says. What Kyaw learned is that no farmer can fight their herd’s diseases alone. "Biosecurity is our only line of defence, but right now, it is our weakest link." Vaccines, waste systems, village-wide protection. That's what your sponsorship builds next.

"Why not our children?"

In a village where preschool has been unheard of for generations, one mother decided to change that.

Read more about May and her mum

May, age 5, wants to be a doctor.

Transforming communities together.

We will partner with the Kangyidaunt community until 2032. Almost all of our staff working in Myanmar are Myanmar nationals. Real change doesn’t happen in a season. It happens over years, by listening, building trust, and turning up again and again until the work belongs to the community itself. Our job, and yours, is to walk alongside them and make sure they have what they need to keep going.

Started 2022

Completing 2032

Did you know?

Did you know?

The Ayeyarwady River, which runs through the region where Kangyidaunt sits, is Myanmar's lifeline. It feeds the rice paddies of the delta, carries goods between the country's interior and its coast, and gives its name to the whole Ayeyarwady Region.

 You'll hear "Mingalaba" almost everywhere you go in Myanmar. It's the standard greeting in Burmese, the country's official language. And if you meet someone with what looks like paint on their cheeks, that's thanaka, a paste made from tree bark that's been used as natural sunblock and skincare for centuries.

 Myanmar's monsoon runs from May to October. For Thet and the families in Kangyidaunt, that's the half of the year when dirt roads turn to mud, footpaths flood, and the walk to the nearest clinic stops being a walk at all. The rains shape almost everything about daily life here, including how children get to school.