The Bamboo Delight Summer School and Library play a huge paper in the development of her community, there is no other place like this in town. All the kids (poor or rich) want to learn with us. Most of the kids before starting studying here, they have super low self-esteem, they don't dare to dream, their social and soft skills are extremely limited. They never use positive words to describe themselves, they don't have role models. But after they start studying here, year after year, is visible the difference on all of them, they become smarter, they believe they can do everything, they are happier, the smiles come out in their faces easily, the dreams start to flourish and their mind and eyes open to the wonders of the world. The year 2020 was extremely hard for all of us, in Myanmar was a year without school, the government school, where they go to learn the whole year term did not open (only the last year of high school level had classes for less than a month but with the
Ma Pu Sue, Yee Yee Min, 44 years old, born in Nyaung Shwe, mother of two, owner of Bamboo Delight Cooking Class & Restaurant and founder of Hand to Hand Charity . Pu Sue left school at the age of 14 to first work as a daily worker, then, eager to learn English, she attended an English-speaking class and worked as a tour guide and in the hospitality sector before starting her own business. In 2013, she opened a cooking class that she has been running twice a day with her husband. That same year, willing to provide educational activities to children from her neighborhood over the summer, she opened a library and summer school program as part of her charity project. The first year, she had 10 kids and in 2019 she hosted over 200 kids to whom she provided English and environmental education classes with the help of local and international volunteers. In 2017, to keep up with the tradition of her father welcoming guests in their home and cooking for them, she opened an informal restaur