[hre-asiapacific] AESE Resource Center Need for HRE Materials

To Whom It May Concern:

Alternative Education for Social Engagement (AESE), a non-profit
organization initiated by Burmese citizens to build and strengthen civil
society in Burma, requests your assistance in putting together a resource
center in the Shan state of Burma.

For 40 years, Burma (also known as Myanmar) has been ruled by an
authoritarian military regime, and during this time, the country has been
plagued by corruption, poverty, economic crises, drug abuses, an
intensifying AIDS crisis, ethnic repression, and the denial/abuse of
fundamental human rights.

In developing this resource center for Burmese activists and local
community members, AESE hopes to educate, inspire, and empower visitors to
the center, thereby establishing a foundation for broader social and
political change.  (This resource center represents just one project among
other social actions initiated by AESE.  AESE's other major work is
Leadership Training for Transformation.)  It is our hope that ALTSEAN will
be able to donate the following publication (and any other ALTSEAN
publications on Burma):

Burma: More Women's Voices. Edited by the Thanakha Team. Altsean-Burma.
Bangkok, Thailand: 2000.

  For your reference, I am attaching a complete list of materials that we
are hoping to assemble for the resource center.  And more generally, we
would appreciate any materials on the following topics: democracy;  
globalization; post-modern discourse; alternative education (home
schooling, community schools); re-evaluation counseling techniques;
socially engaged Buddhism; organizational development/management; popular
education/adult education; community building;  strategic planning;
leadership; feminism; nationalism ;  inspirational novels;  language
skills materials; dictionaries; encyclopedias; and
biographies/autobiographies of leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin
Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Mother Theresa, and Nelson Mandela.  
Introductory texts to the fields of political science, psychology,
sociology, philosophy, and economics would also be useful.  AESE welcomes
materials in English and Burmese (if available) and in any format.  DVDs
and paperbacks, however, are preferable.

  AESE would like to compile as many resources as possible in the next few
months to open the resource center before year's end.  We will, however,
accept donations on an on-going basis.  They can be sent to:

    AESE
    P.O. Box 263
    Chiang Mai University PO
    Chiang Mai, 50202
    Thailand

To contribute to this project, or for more information about the resource
center, please contact us at aese_resource_center@yahoo.com. We look
forward to hearing from you and will follow up by e-mail in the next week.

Sincerely,

  Sai Lang Won
  Project Coordinator




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