PASDB with seniors and homeless families

PASDB FINANCE PROJECTS IN A HUGE SANCTUARY THAT HOSTS SENIORS AND HOMELESS FAMILIES

The gigantic ThaBarWa center was created in 2007 by Venerable U Ottamasara * (see below).

This sanctuary is accessible to the most vulnerable populations, without discrimination or restrictions (number, age, state of health, nationality, social status, religion, etc.).

Food, accommodation, care and education are provided free of charge.

ThaBarWa currently has more than 30 hectares and houses:

A meditation center;

Several hundred monks and nuns;

Several hospices in which around 1700 elderly people of both sexes (sometimes sick, infirm, blind, deaf, disabled or mentally disturbed) are fully supported;

A village, Saytanar Village, adjacent to the meditation center, where about 3,000 families, or about 15,000 people who were homeless, were given a title deed with a piece of land of about 20 square meters (15 x 15 feet), on which volunteers build huts **;

An orphanage;

A nursery;

A small hospital;

Schools.

Here is what Venerable U Ottamasara says of the center:

"Most people here are not healthy, not young, not rich, but their minds are healthy and clean, with fewer attachments than most people in the world. society. Here is the place of healthy and rich minds".

Hundreds of volunteers living around or in the center (nurses, doctors, etc.) contribute to its operation and 300 kilos of rice are cooked there daily!
The needs of ThaBarWa center are obviously huge, that is to say, the height of its area, its management and the free support of the 20,000 people who stay there permanently!

Projects
Venerable U Ottamasara wants to install several thousand additional families, who currently survive on the streets or slums of Yangon and Thanlyin.
That's why the center has just bought ten additional acres, a purchase made by a small contribution and a bank loan.

PASDB would like to support this new project, while providing regular help to the center.

*The Venerable U Otamassara is 49 years old. After graduate studies in English, especially at Yangon University, he was a successful businessman for several years. Then, discovering the meditation, he decided to bequeath all his accumulated wealth during his years of business, in favor of the most deprived Burmese. He became a monk in 2002 after several years of meditative retreat, then created the center in 2007.

**Most of the 3,000 families in the village (about 15,000 people) live well below the poverty line and can not afford rent. For many, a bamboo hut 15 feet by 15 feet is a life-saving alternative to street life. In Burma, as the cost of land has increased significantly due to the rapid development of recent years, many people have been forced to leave their homes. In the countryside, large areas of agricultural land were acquired for foreign companies. Without any means of survival, many displaced people migrate to Yangon in search of work but end up sleeping on the streets or under bridges. Displacement caused by development, exacerbated by natural disasters, has already left millions homeless.

Vous trouverez ci-dessous un aperçu photographique de l’environnement du centre.

Il faut noter que la promiscuité visible sur certaines photos pourrait paraître exagérée pour un occidental, mais elle fait partie du quotidien des birmans en général. En effet, même au sein d’un foyer de la classe moyenne birmane (et asiatique en général), on vit à plusieurs sur une petite superficie et les personnes s’en accommodent très bien.

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