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Muir School for the Deaf, Myanmar (K – 6)

In 2004, DMI opened the Immanuel School for the Deaf, which is one of only three schools for the Deaf in Myanmar.  In 2015 the school changed its name to the Muir School for the Deaf which, in addition to honoring Neville Muir, the founder of DMI, also means “happy place” in Burmese. The school currently has about 38 students, most coming from remote villages in the surrounding Chin Hills and staying in the school’s dormitory during school terms. The students learn animal husbandry skills at the school’s piggery, which also provides a source of income for the school.

The school syllabus and exams are set by the local government hearing school, and our children are achieving very good results even compared to the hearing children. They are so happy to go to a school and have Deaf friends. These students live a very simple life and their Christmas celebration is usually a fishing trip. The school has a board of local people who contribute to decision making for the school.

During the pandemic and civil unrest, many students have not been able to come to the school, yet our teachers brave uncertainty and danger to go from house to house to teach our students in small groups. They also work to maintain the facilities at the school.

There are many Deaf adults in this area who have never been to school. So, signing classes have been started for them in a village where the Deaf people had no knowledge of Myanmar Sign Language. One of our teachers who is Deaf himself travels by motorbike to the village each weekend and teaches signing, good health, nutrition and child care. They have learned to sign and are becoming a Deaf community that can communicate with each other. A rice field has been purchased to help finance this school in the future.

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Ministry in Myanmar

DMI planted its first church for the Deaf in this strongly Buddhist country in Yangon in 1999. It has persevered through the pandemic and civil unrest, continuing to meet and grow, and currently has around 60 members. The church also serves as a hub for the entire Deaf community. As such, a number of Buddhist people attend the services just so they can join in the fellowship and lunch afterwards!

More recently, a second church was established in Pintaw Oo near Kalay in the north-west of the country, after it was discovered there were about 40 Deaf people in the one village. It currently serves about 25 parishioners.

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