Crossing the Gain Line
What are some of your wins since LNY 2022?
At Crossing the Gain Line, we are proud to have seen tremendous success over the past year. Our rugby training groups have increased from two groups to four and our teams recently participated in their first tournament - with some children even winning their age division!
Each month our food assistance program provides basic food such as rice, to more than 200 families. This allows them to spend spare money on fresh fruits and vegetables. As well as this ongoing project, each week online English lessons are provided by us to some of the older children that we coach.
Our Vocational Training Support had its first result this year with 5 of our older players graduating from the Shwe Sa Bwe restaurant hospitality (11 months) course. Crossing the Gain Line was able to help them with onboarding costs, such as transport, lunch money etc. We look forward to our players entering the world of work with a qualification that is recognised in the hospitality industry throughout the world.
Big Wins
Growing the rugby program to just over 200 kids
Developing an online english program
Sustaining the food assistance program to make monthly donations
Playing in a tournament with international schools in Myanmar
Getting our own playing kit for players
What are you currently working on?
We are currently working on growing our online english program. We would like to get more volunteer English teachers and help more young people develop their english.
We would also like to participate in more tournaments.So we are working on making contacts with international schools and looking at a possible Thailand trip sometime in the next couple of years.
All our coaches are from Myanmar, and we are looking to improve their rugby and coaching knowledge by providing them opportunities for further education in the coaching field.
How can we help/support you right now?
The donation that you made in 2022 helped us in expanding our rugby program to more children and a repeat donation would go a long way to us maintaining and growing this program.
We need more online English teachers who can commit to volunteering one hour per week and we need more tablet computers for our children to access these teachers. So any appeal you can make to secure a surplus tablet or teacher would be greatly appreciated.
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