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A beautiful little video with english text about one of our favourite projects in Myanmar. We started working with this underprivileged neighbourhood early on in our work, 2018 I guess it was and our team has been there regularly ever since. (20,000 people, climate refugees from many years back, live in a tarpaulin city withContinue reading “Community Gardening in Media”

Ko Inda Aung Soe of Bokashi Myanmar talking about himself and why we do what we do at the BM team as a part of his scholarship application journey. Get selected or not is one thing, keeping trying every time is a real spirit to go with.

Turn the waste into compost and grow vegetables that contribute to the well-being of the daily food consumption that we eat. This one is a leafy vegetable that we grow in the golden garden in 8miles of Yangon, the urban downtown of Yangon, Myanmar. Through this practice, we address to take action on the immediateContinue reading “Clean to Green”

Dear friends and supporters, We are thrilled to share with you the incredible journey we embarked on just a few days ago, on June 12th, 2023. Our mission was to bring hope and assistance to the 400 families residing in one of the most devastated squatters areas in Yangon, Myanmar. We organized a rice donationContinue reading ““Rice Donation Brings Hope””

အောက်မှာ မြန်မာလိုပါ ပါသေးတယ်နော်။ New research from Harvard shows that air pollution is linked to higher Coronavirus death rates. The more pollution in the air, the sicker people are likely to get. Lockdown has not helped reduce air pollution in Yangon. Even though there are fewer cars, the air pollution readings for Yangon are still veryContinue reading “AIR POLLUTION MAKES COVID-19 WORSE”

Effective Microorganisms (EM) ပါဝင်တဲ့ အကျိုးပြုအနုဇီဝလေးတွေပါဝင်ပြီးပျိုးယူထားတဲ့ ဖွဲနုအချဉ်တမျိုးပါ။အီးအမ်ဆိုတာက လူ၊ သစ်ပင်၊ တောတောင် ရေမြေ နဲ့ လေ စတဲ့ သဘာဝထဲက လူနဲ့ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် အပါအဝင် မြေသားစတာတွေကို ကောင်းကျိုးပြုတဲ့ မျက်စိနဲ့ မမြင်ရလောက်အောင် သေးငယ်တဲ့ အကျိုးပြု ပိုးကလေးတွေပါ။ ဂေဟဗေဒနဲ့လည်းသဟဇာတဖြစ်ပြီး ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ကို တစုံတရာ ညစ်ညမ်းစေမှုမဖြစ်စေတဲ့အပြင် အရည်အသွေးပိုမိုးတိုးတက်အောင်ပါ ပွားများပြုပြက်ပေးတတ်တဲ့ သက်ရှိအနုဇီဝလေးတွေမို့ အခုဆို နိုင်ငံပေါင်း တရာကျော်မှာ အသုံးပြုနေကြပါပြီ။ Bokashi ဒါမှမဟုတ် Effective Microorganism ဒါမှမဟုတ် EM Bokashi လို့ Google တို့ Youtube တို့မှာ ရိုက်ရှာလိုက်ရင်လဲ အများအပြားကို တွေ့ရမှာပါ။ နိုင်ငံအသီးသီးမှာ အသုံးပြုနေကြတာမို့ပါ။ EM research OrganizationContinue reading “Bokashi Bran ဆိုတာ ဘာပါလဲ။”

အောက်မှာ မြန်မာလိုပါ ပါသေးတယ်နော်။  New research from Harvard shows that air pollution is linked to higher Coronavirus death rates. The more pollution in the air, the sicker people are likely to get.  Lockdown has not helped reduce air pollution in Yangon. Even though there are fewer cars, the air pollution readings for Yangon are still veryContinue reading “Air pollution makes covid-19 worse”

A quick summary of everything that’s happened here at Bokashi Myanmar this past year — it’s a LOT! We recently had a visit from our bokashi colleagues from New Zealand and Belgium, and they were amazed that we’ve done – and learned – so much this year. When you’re in the middle of it allContinue reading “Bokashi Myanmar is growing!”

We had a great visit this week from Drew Binsky, global YouTube star and all-round nice guy. He’d picked up on what we’re doing with food waste here in Yangon after our TEDx talk in Yangon recently, and came out to our bokashi yard in North Dagon to see what we were up to. TurnedContinue reading “The FOOD WASTE MAN!”

Taking part in a TED talk is an amazing experience. This month we got to do it here in Yangon: Inda stepped up on stage and talked about what we are doing at Bokashi Myanmar and our mantra of “Organic waste is not trash”. Months of work go into a TEDx event like this. TheContinue reading “Our TEDx talk in Yangon!”

Last night the team returned from Ngwe Saung, a beautiful beach some 6 or 7 hours of shaky driving west of Yangon. We’re feeling pretty happy, because we’ve started something there at the beach that hasn’t been done before. We’ve helped stop the food waste at one of the biggest hotels on the beach. We’veContinue reading “Bokashi at the beach”

The theme for World Environment Day this year was air pollution. A HUGE subject that gets way too little attention. Which is really a pity. Maybe that will change now? There are so many aspects of it that it’s hard to know where to start. But one central part of the problem, in Myanmar andContinue reading “Our future up in smoke?”

Last week we took part in the Food & Hotel Myanmar expo in Yangon, a huge event with hundreds of chefs vying to be the best. The hotels, restaurants and resorts of Myanmar were gathered in the huge venue to soak up the inspiration — get new ideas and make new contacts. Watching these chefsContinue reading “Hotel food waste is history!”