TREC Project Story
Thriving Resilience through empowering community (TREC) project target communities locate in Yangon Region, Bago Region, and Ayeyarwaddy Region. There are five associations are conducted in this Project, they are Myaung Mya Association, Hinthada Association, Yangon Association, Pyi-tharyarwady Association and Nyaung Lay Bin Association. Even the target villages are accounted under KBC’s mission area, the Christians, Buddhists, spirit worshippers and other faiths dwells together in harmony. Majority of target villages are Karen and Bamar mixed ethnic communities those belong to rural areas where basic social services and economic opportunities are somehow marginalized or loosely covered. The interventions toward human rights, women empowerment, and capacity building programs by other agencies have never been in those communities. There are no armed conflicts or engagement in political or racial riots and clashes in target communities of focused areas. For the target communities and churches belong to ethnic Karen community, their motives, involvement and participation in peace building processes are also influencing factors as nationwide ceasefire process is on the way right now.
