| Administrative History | Allocations: 1983-1986, 1988-1990. See later annual reports for any subsequent allocations.
Burma (now Myanmar) became independent of Britain in 1947. It became a Socialist Republic in 1974. The name Myanmar was adopted in 1989.
In the early 1980s Save the Children (SCF) staff assisted the World Health Organisation with the implementation of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation in Myanmar. SCF established a country programme in Myanmar in 1995. SCF's programme has included projects relating to HIV/AIDS education and prevention in Northern Shan, Mon and Kayin states, disability, disaster-preparedness, Early Childhood Care and Development, and Water Sanitation.
Refugees from Myanmar: In 1978 SCF sent emergency aid for Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar [then Burma] and living in camps in Bangladesh. When thousands more Muslim refugees fled to Bangladesh in 1991-1992, SCF established a refugee relief project in the camps. |