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Phaung Daw Oo monastic school in Mandalay could hold the key to Myanmar’s future
- U Nayaka and his mother in their home at Phaung Daw Oo school, Mandalay, which he founded in 1994 to educated impoverished children©Sophie Gerrard
- A portrait of U Nayaka, taken when he was 17 years old, hangs in the school office©Sophie Gerrard
- U Nayaka wears a traditional orange monk’s robe©Sophie Gerrard
- Aiknyi, a former pupil of Phaung Daw Oo, left Mandalay after graduating and established his own school in his home village©Sophie Gerrard
- Young novice monks attend class at Phaung Daw Oo©Sophie Gerrard
- A novice monk in class. More than 6,000 deprived children take lessons at the school each day©Sophie Gerrard
- Schoolgirls play a jumping game in the playground after class©Sophie Gerrard
- A monk looks out through the window of the novice monks’ dormitory at Phaung Daw Oo©Sophie Gerrard
- Young children gather with their teacher in class. A dark green sarong and white shirt is the uniform of teachers and pupils across the country©Sophie Gerrard
- Kindergarten children wearing traditional thanaka (made from ground bark) on their faces©Sophie Gerrard
- A kindergarten boy, hard at work©Sophie Gerrard
- Eie Thazin Myat (left), seven, is known as “Morning” because that’s what she used to call everyone when she first came to the school aged three, not speaking any English. She stands with her elder sister Su Htet Myat, nine, outside the home for orphans at Phaung Daw Oo©Sophie Gerrard
- Yi Mon (right), a 29-year-old teacher, with some of the 25 orphaned children she shares her house with©Sophie Gerrard
- Htet Htet Lin, 14, also known as Lisa, helps prepare breakfast at the orphanage at Phaung Daw Oo. It costs 62p per day to feed a child at the orphanage on three meals of rice, beans, vegetables and chilli sauce©Sophie Gerrard
- An orphaned girl who was brought to the school by U Nayaka from her village in the south of Myanmar following Cyclone Nargis©Sophie Gerrard
- Female empowerment classes called “colourful classes” help teach girls the principles of self-respect and women’s rights©Sophie Gerrard
- An English exercise book sits on a classroom desk©Sophie Gerrard
- A student completes her homework after class©Sophie Gerrard
- A pile of homework exercise books in the orphanage©Sophie Gerrard
- Ei Shwe Sin, also known as Nancy, used to be a student at Phaung Daw Oo but now helps to lead teacher training sessions at the school©Sophie Gerrard
- A monk looks out over some of the school’s buildings©Sophie Gerrard
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