Many children become novice monks and nuns. Some are orphans and others are put in the monasteries by parents who are too poor to take care of them themselves. They are brought up and given schooling by the monks and nuns.
We visited one such orphanage and met with the head monk who explained about his orphanage. For their everyday needs they get offerings from the village, but their building was badly in need of repair. They were trying to fix it up themselves, but had no money to buy any materials. We donated what we could at that time, but before we return to Burma next summer we plan to organize a special Burmese dinner event at Hibernia one evening as a fundraiser for this orphanage.Here are some videos.....