Charity-Oriented Myanmar

PROFILE

Charity-Oriented Myanmar
No.250, Ayetharyar Street, ManAung Quarter,
Tamwe Township, Yangon, Myanmar.
comcharity@gmail.com
Full Name of Organization : Charity-Oriented Myanmar
'ge-a½SUaqmifjrefrm (Mother Tongue)

Abbreviation : COM
Year of Establishment : November, 2005.
Name of Founder/leader : Chan Nyein Aung (President cum Program Coordinator)
Names of Contact Person : Nway Nway Tun (Assistant Program Coordinator)
Total Number of Staff : 12 (Permanent), 42 (volunteers)
Bank Address : Myawaddy Bank Ltd.
No.24/26, Sule Pagoda Road. Kyauktada Township, Yangon,
Myanmar.
Tel: 387321, 256059,256057
Fax: 095-01-250093, 01-243432
Office Address : Pizimaryone Monastery,
No.250, Ayetharyar Street, ManAung Quarter, Tamwe
Township, Yangon, Myanmar.
Contact Number : 095-1-400163
E-Mail Address : comcharity@gmail.com
Background
Three Myanmar youths established the Pizimaryone Monastic Charity Development
Training Centre (PMCDT) in November, 2005 and upgraded it into Charity–Oriented
Myanmar (COM)

Vision/Mission
To contribute the social activities to the needy and wanting people regardless of any
boundary.
Main Goal
To provide the needy and wanting people in health, basic and professional education,
livelihood and water & sanitation program, that will lead them to self-reliant societies without
discrimination of race, religion, gender and age.

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Objectives
• To ensure that the community be in unity in order to promote a better society.
• To increase sanitation facilities and improved hygiene through WASH activities and
hygiene knowledge.
• To provide learning opportunities with new technologies, for a level of people, so that they
would involve in building the country to a developed nation with high technologies.
• To give youths' health knowledge of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Malaria and etc.
• To give basic educational opportunities to orphans, impoverished children who cannot
have the access of Education because of their various problems.
• To help as far as possible those who are learning at Monastery and Charity schools.

Activities
1. Capacity Building training for youths at Pizimaryone Monastic Charity Development
Training (PMCDT) center (Tamwe township, Yangon division)

2. Window Library Project. (Yangon Division)

3. HIV/AIDS awareness training in Yangon division.

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 4. Education and living standard development programs for Monastery schoolchildren
(2008-2009 Academic Year) (Kamakasit (west) Monastery, Dala Township, Yangon Division)

5. Nargis Relief & Rehabilitation Programs:

No Village Name Village Tract Activity Partner Funded Period Remark

Dala 5,900,000 kyats
June 17- (paung kuu granted)
Township, Rebuild the 5,900,000
1. - Paung Kuu July 17, 2,629,050 kyat
Yangon (130) houses Kyat (COM's
2008 contribution)
Division Total=8,529,050 kyat
KawHmu Distribution
June-
Township, Food Item and CARE-
2. 16 villages - November,
Yangon Non-Food Myanmar
2008
Division Items

Distribution
Dedaye 1st July-
Mosquito net,
Township, Norwegian November,
3. 8 villages Education kits 2 million
Ayarwaddy People’s Aid 2008
and Fencing 5
Division
ponds

Thone Htet,
August,
Ahkei Dedaye local donors
2008
4. Chaung Wa Township, Built the bridge from Magwe 500,000
(west) Ayarwaddy Division
Division.

Thone Htet,
Community
Ahkei Dedaye local donors
Rebuild the 5 contributed half of
5. Chaung Wa Township, from Magwe 500,000
houses the expense.
(west) Ayarwaddy Division
Division.

Target Beneficiaries
The needy and wanting people in Myanmar without discrimination of race, religion,
gender and age.

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Recommendation for Charity-Oriented Myanmar
Organization Experience
COM portfolio focused on the theme of education, capacity building for youths,
establishing library, health and water & sanitation programs through 2005 to until now. In there
we got some achievements done by our organization which are;
1. COM has founded Pizimaryone Monastic Charity Development Training (PMCDT) center in
2005.
2. COM has conducted HIV/AIDS awareness training in 2005 at PMCDT Centre.
3. COM supported to Monastery Education at west Kamakasit Monastery, Dala Township,
Yangon Division for a (2008-2009) academic year.
4. COM has established Window Library in 2007.
5. COM has been supporting books to Law Ka Ah Lin Library, TaungTwinGyi Township,
Magwe Division since 2007.

Supported Organization and supported funds

COM has been supported by MBCA in 2005-2006 for HIV/AIDS awareness training by
CBI in 2007 until now for capacity building for the staff, by AFXB from 2007 until now for
prevention and HIV/AIDS awareness training by British Council for WASH project in March,
2008 with the amount of USD 3460 and by American Centre for library service from 2007 until
present time.
For Nargis Respond and Rehabilitation Programs, COM has been supported by Paung Kuu
(Consortium), CARE Myanmar and NPA. In addition, COM is the one of member of MNGO
network group through September to till now.

Key strength of Organization

COM is able to provide the needy and wanting people in health, basic and professional
education and livelihood. It has experience in implementing water sanitation project and
founding library. It has strength of working for social development.

Reference:

COM is recommended by CBI, AFXB, MBCA, BC, AC, CARE Myanmar, Paung Kuu and NPA.

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 Organization’s Management Structure

Management Unit / Steering Committee

President cum Program Coordinator

(Chan Nyein Aung)

Assistant Program Coordinator

(Nway Nway Tun)

Project Manager-1 Project Manager-2 Admin/HR Manager Finance Manager IT Manager

(Development Program) (Cyclone Program) (Han Myo Htun) (Yamin Soe Yu) (Pyae Phyo Paing)
(Phyo Thi Khine) (Aung Kyaw Minn)

Project Officer-1 Project Officer-2 IT Officer

Admin & Finance Officer
(Development Program) (Cyclone Program) (Khin Naing Naing) (Soe Moe Thein)
(Zayar Win) (Naing Zaw Tun)

Admin Assistant
(Htet Naing Win)

Line Management