New shelter/home for the rice paddy farmer and his family
The home/shelter for the rice paddy farmer and his family is almost collapsing and a new dwelling is desperately needed. If you look closely, you can see the old building…
MYITTA GAY HAR (LOVE VILLAS) ORPHANAGE, MYAUNGMYA, MYANMAR, (BURMA)
Love Villas Posts
New Roof for Rubber Production House on the Plantation
Since the old roof was a thatched roof, using palm fronds, which meant that during the rainy season there were plenty of leaks, the team went to work and put…
Christmas Vacation at the beach
From the 24th to the 28th of December 2017, Mark Peschel, Alicia and Stephan took the entire Love Villas family to Chaung Tha beach for a holiday. After a 4h…
Fixing the walkways between the villas
Because a lot of the work at the orphanage is done by the house parents themselves, and because the quality of the materials available is often questionable, a regular maintenance…
Quilts for the children
After many weeks of sewing and stitching and putting various pieces of fabric together by committed ladies at the Southern Californian 55+ active living community at Trilogy Temescal Valley, and…
New Plantation Shelter
Burma is in the tropics and MyaungMya is in the Irrawaddy river delta, which means it is hot and humid almost all year round. Getting out of the sunshine and…
Tractor Repairs
The most common mode of transport for the kids at the Love Villas is the tractor. Going into town, going to the farm or to the veggie patch, the tractor…
The MGH Family at the Beach
As a Christmas present, each child at MGH was given a small sum of money. The children elected to pool their resources and go to the beach. David and Grace…
Quilts for MGH
The wonderful ladies at the Trilogy Active Living Community in Temescal Valley, California, have been stitching quilts together for months. To account for the tropical climate in Burma, the quilts…
Daily Life at Love Villas…
Everybody rises at 5:30am, lights out is at 9:30pm School is Monday to Friday, rest day is Saturday, Sundays everybody works the fields and around the orphanage There are 2…