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. In 2023, Shanta launched our development model in Zambia's Southern Province.
"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)
We partner with underserved rural villages to develop healthy communities. Through a collaborative process we empower local leadership to make effective, sustainable change focusing on education, quality health care and economic opportunities.
Since 2006, Shanta Foundation has partnered with rural villages in Myanmar to build a path out of poverty. Shanta's approach begins with the establishment of long-term partnerships that recognize the assets both the village and Shanta bring to the table. Over the course of six-years, entire communities transform from leaning heavily on Shanta for financial support and expertise, to holding the light and leading the way on their own path out of poverty.
Organization name
Shanta Foundation
2006
Tax id (EIN)
20-4246752
Category
Community Improvement & Capacity Building
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
PO Box 1603Headquarters
1309 E. 3rd AvenueLa Plata County, CO, US
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