Shanta Foundation

Alleviating poverty is not a simple goal. Shanta Foundation has grown directly from our experience partnering and working with Myanmar villages to build sustainable futures.

   Shanta’s ability to help begins with our belief in the existing agency of villagers; that they have the potential to identify and solve their own problems and create a path out of poverty- permanently.

   Since 2006, Shanta Foundation has partnered with poor rural villages in Myanmar using our holistic, six-year partnership to build thriving communities through sustainable programs in health, education, leadership, women’s empowerment, livelihood, and infrastructure.

Testimonials

"Shanta Foundation has one of the most sustainable community development programs I've seen in Burma-for only a fraction of the money that has been poured into similar UN efforts elsewhere in the country."-Priscilla Clapp, former U.S. Chief of Mission to Myanmar

"The beauty of our model and the six years we spend with villages is that when we step away, it's because a village doesn't need us anymore."-Anna Pool, Board Member

"After our village partnered with Muditar, there were many development projects in the village. It took all the villagers - including the women-to meet regularly to discuss village issues. Because of these regular village meetings, all the villagers have more unity and the groups have made improvements to our village rules and the completed projects we only dreamt of." Myo Gyi (VDT member)