Our Team | BRAVEHEART

Nyein Chan Ko Ko

Information Officer

He was born in Minbu Township of Magway Region . He is a graduate of Mathematics. He started in 2022 in collaboration with the BRAVEHEART Foundation in Yangon Region as an Information Officer. He will be serving information through the Braveheart Foundation Facebook Page and answering queries from online media and phone calls about legal identities. He will be responsible for discussing the application process for citizenship.

Lu Awng

MEAL Officer

My Name is Lu Awng. I was born and my native town in Myitkyina, Kachin State. I got my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (B.A) from Myitkyina University. I had done an officiate NGO working in life for 4 years. I had done work experience in M&E main activities are The Monitoring process is routine when working with project teams, we need to be able to connect with each other and get the information we need without the hassle, Developed Project /M&E Log frame and M&E Work plan and Data collect/ Data entry/Data Analysis, Questionnaire and Format etc.

Now I was joining for the post of MEAL Officer Working based in Yangon Head Office at Braveheart Foundation Myanmar. I take responsibilities to identify the criteria and outputs as per project nature and the M&E plan for the projects separately, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans and to perform M&E Process with team together.

Thida Seinne Lei

HR Officer

My name is Thida Seinne Lei. I’m 45 Years old and live in Yangon. I got my Bachelor Degree in Physics and Diploma of Human Resource Management.

I was served as HR/Admin Coordinator up to 31 Dec 2021 in Consortium Dutch NGO’s (CDN) Yangon Office. I worked at CDN on various positions as Admin and Finance assistant post base on Laputta Office from 2010 to 2011, as HR and Admin Assistant post base on Yangon Office from 2011 to 2014, as Senior HR and Admin Officer post base on Yangon Office from 2016 to 2018. During the CDN, I support for HR/ Admin/ Liaison/ Logistic and Finance.

I have also worked as an office assistant in Cyclone Nargis Emergency Operation of United Nation World Food Program (UNWFP) in Bogalay Township form June 2008 to January 2010. During this period, I assist for HR, Administrative and Finance.

I have also worked as Community Level Extension worker in Livelihood and Food Security 3 year project of UNDP/FAO-MYA/96/008 and UNDP/FOA-MYA/98/008 at Bogalay TSP from 1998 to 2002. During this period, I supported to community by project guide line.

I have also worked at Intern (Field worker) at UNDP/MICRO CREDIC project at Bogalay TSP from 1998. During this period, I supported to women development, data collection and monitoring activity.

I have experience in company filed from 2002 to 2008 as a manager in Myanmar Real International Co., Ltd and Assistant manager in Cheon Language Academic (Korea), I have to take the responsible for sales & marketing (Home Decoration) and also manage the cash transaction of the Cheon Language Academic.

Twal Tar Lamin

Paralegal

She is a graduated B.Sc (Zoology) on 2018. After graduated she worked sales and communication position at (Life Project for Youth) social business program. From 2020 to 2021, she volunteered for NGO jobs. Now she started working in BraveHeart Foundation as a paralegal.

Nyein Nyein Kyaw

Finance Assistant

She was borned in Mrauk-U, Rakhine State. She studied at High School in Sittwe in 2017. She worked as a Recorder (Finance assistant) at Kaixi Myanmar Garment Factory for 5 years until 2022. She joined the Braveheart Foundation as a Finance Assistant in May, 2022.

San Thit Lwin

Paralegal

San Thit Lwin is a first year student majoring Chemistry at West Yangon University. He has previously worked as a cashier at Lotteria Myanmar in 2020 and City Mart Holding Co.Ltd in 2021. In Addition, he used to work as a promoter of MMI Advertising Ltd.

He joined the Braveheart Foundation in May 2022 as a community based paralegal. He believes he can be involved legal awareness raising and growing the movement of community, as well as data collection and gathering evidence for cases.

Wut Yee Nwe

Paralegal

She lives in Hlaingtharyar Township. She worked as a Community Facilitator at April 2017 to December 2021, about 5 years in Pan Taing Shin Community Base organization. She is currently working as paralegal at the Braveheart Foundation to educate to undocumented community in Hlaingtharyar Township.

Thin Pa Pa Tun

Network Coordinator

She was graduated Distance from the West University. She has experience 4 years in Non-Government Organization (AMA) worked at Health Service and Legal Service for community as a M&E officer and Project Coordinator (HIV).
She started working as Network Coordinator in Braveheart Foundation at April 8th, 2022. She mainly working communication for the network members, coordinate and support in organizing meeting and workshop.

Zaw Phyoe Htet

Paralegal

He is a high school student. From 2015 to 2016, he volunteered for UNICEF Myanmar for one year. In 2020, he started as a volunteer in the Braveheart Foundation and helped raise awareness about the legal identity in the community in Hlaingtharyar township. He is now a Paralegal of the Braveheart Foundation and he will continue to identify undocumented people in Hlaingtharyar township and help them obtaining Citizenship Scrutiny Cards.

Nang San Seng

Local Coordinator (KTG)

Nang San Seng is a Khun Shan ethnic, lives in Taryaw, Kengtung Township, and Eastern Shan State. She graduated with a Bachelor degree majoring in Physics from Taunggyi University. She used to work with World Vision International (Myanmar) for many years. 2014 census data indicated that Kengtung Township has 21013 undocumented people, which made her interested in citizenship field. Therefore, she joined Braveheart Foundation as a Local Coordinator running with 8 Paralegals in Kengtung Project in June, 2018. Those to whom without documentation made her wonder what are the reasons for lacking any proper documents. Thus, that arouses her to help the Community to get more aware of citizenship right, basic rights and to have accessed according to the existing law.

By getting Capacity of related knowledge from Braveheart, she did regular monitoring visit on how the Paralegals implemented the work in their respective target villages. Under her supervision, all of the Paralegals performed well and monthly targets were achieved. On the other hand, she also wants to continue gathering more volunteers from the other villages to provide them the capacity training on specific laws and regulations related to citizenship, so that they could empower the community to access basic rights and justice.

MHWAYE MHWAYE

Center Coordinator (Hlaingtharyar)

Her name is Mhwaye Mhwaye. She was born in Hlegu, Yangon. She graduated with a Bachelor Degree majoring in English from Dagon University. She used to work with World Vision International Myanmar (WVI) and Brac Myanmar in 2016 to 2022.She have many experiences in community field and good communication with government authority, Project implementation, Reporting, good relation with clients and Hotline Sector experiences.

Now she work as Center Coordinator (Hlaingtharyar) running with 10 paralegals in 2022, Braveheart organization. She gets capacity of knowledge from Braveheart, she coordinated good relationship with management team and paralegal team, manage the successful of paralegal team activities, support the team with various administrative tasks, follow with workflow procedures, inform and report concern paralegals team activities.

Htet Htet Wai Aung
Paralegal

Htet Htet Wai Aung was born in Hlaingtharyar Township. She is a native of Hlaingtharyar. She is a final year electrical power engineering student from West Yangon Technological University. She worked as a tutor at Global Hope for two years. She worked for Sathapana Company for more than a year. She started joining to Braveheart foundation as a Paralegal on january 2022.

Khin Thazin Aye

Paralegal

She lives in Hlaingtharyar Township and is the second of three children. She studied up to Basic Education High School and attended English speaking, Basic computer, Professional behavior and business training at Life project 4 youth (LP4Y). Then serve as a volunteer for the Braveheart Foundation from 2019. She joined Braveheart Foundation working as a paralegal in 2021. She assists undocumented people to access civil documents and raises awareness on citizenship rights.

Aung Myo Win

Data Analyst

He holds a B.Sc (Physics) degree from the University of Yangon and worked for six years at Myanma Agricultural and Rural Development Bank. Then as a private business worked as an Electronic Service technician for 10 years. He participated with the Braveheart Foundation in disaster relief programs, Child Rights programs, parliamentary education programs and voter education training, since 2010. He served as a librarian at BRAVEHEART e-Library and provided Computer and Internet training for young peoples.

Now he takes responsibility as a Data Analyst for Capacity building and research on anti-discrimination and legal identity program.

Khine Ran Thein

Admin Assistant

I was born in Rathedaung, Rakhine State. In 2016, after high school in Sittwe Township, I came to Yangon to attend Mobile phone software training and worked Honor Mobile Company. Assisted in organizing workshops organized by the Yangon Region Department of Ethnic Affairs. Participated in Rakhine Youth Development Forums Provided political knowledge. The wings institute Reconciliation Exchange Program Federal system; Peace building; Participated in the study of Nation-building and Reunification. In 1st December 2020, volunteered for the Braveheart Foundation on programs related to ethnic rights and civil rights. I am now the Admin assistant in charge at Braveheart Foundation.

MYAT ZAW HTWE

Project Coordinator

His name is Myat Zaw Htwe. He was born in Yangon. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Law (LL.B) from Dagon University. He has been working in Company Life for about 17 years. He had working experiences in Administration Field, Project Development and Implementation Field and also knowledge in the Call Center Sector.

Now he takes responsibility as Project Coordinator to participate and assist the Project Director in project management activities, maintaining and monitoring the project schedules, assessing & overseeing paralegals and promoting their capacity and coordinating and synchronizing between the Project’s Stakeholders.

Ah Sae

Paralegal

Ma Ah Sae is a law student, who is an Akha ethinic, lives in Kart Pha village, Kart Pha group, Kengtung Township. She joined the Braveheart Foundation in July 2018. She is very interesting and enthusiastic in her current job as a paralegal because it is generally related to the law. During her community activities, she realized that most of the villagers from the hilly area are far from the law. Therefore, she wants to make more community awareness for those people in order to know the justice and basic rights themselves, and access to the law.

Do Phar

Paralegal

Do Phar is an Akha ethnic, who lives in Hwe Poong village, Mong Larng village tract, Kengtung Township. He joined the Braveheart Foundation in July 2018. Do Phar graduated with a bachelor of Arts in Economics from Mandalay University. According to his experiences, his environment villagers were ethnic groups who can’t read and speak Burmese language and also afraid to deal with Government staff. Community people need Identity card, however, they don’t know how to apply the documentation process . Therefore, he wants to give awareness education about citizenship rights and supporting the Community apply application process by working as a paralegal.

Stephen

Paralegal

I am Stephen, lived in Hwe Kwere Village Tract , Phar Yan Noi village Tract , Kengtung Township and my ethnicity is Lahu . My educational background is that I am attending third year with Geography Major. Before I joined to Braveheart Foundation, I serve as a volunteer for our village. Also assist in applying CSC, newborn update and household list. In 2019, I joining a ToT Citizenship section by Braveheart Foundation . Because of Training, I could study 1982 Myanmar citizenship law and citizenship rights . After that, I became a staff of Braveheart Foundation.

Hnin Wutt Yee

Finance Officer

Hnin Wutt Yee is the Finance and Admin Officer and she joined to Braveheart Foundation which is mainly working for Capacity Building and Research on Anti-discrimination and Legal Identity in 2017. She had two years of experience in the administrative field before.

She was graduated from Bago University of Distance Education with Bachelor of History in 2011. She also got a Diploma in Accounting and Finance (LCCI) in 2019.

Lwin Mar Oo

Paralegal

Lwin Mar Oo received B.Sc. (Bot) and became a volunteer in child protection program of Save the Children in Myanmar. She has so many experiences in the private sector as an Accountant, a Finance Manager and a Secretary before she joined Braveheart Foundation.

She learnt about Braveheart from her friend and joined to Braveheart in 2019. She wants to support community in raising awareness of citizenship and importance of civil documentation.

Than Htaik @ Yadana

Founder and Director

Than Htaik @ Yadana co-founded Braveheart Foundation in 2000 as a Language Training Centre to provide local youths with language proficiency in Myanmar. After several years of working in the education sector, during the country’s democratic transition period, Yadana navigated Braveheart Foundation to civic movements. First engagement was child rights and extended to land rights and ethnic rights respectively in following years. He also worked as an informal secretariat for 29 Ethnic Ministers across the country.

Seeing the shocking result of undocumented population according to 2014 Census (more than 11 million out of 51), he steered the organization’s engagement in citizenship issue in 2017 with Namati as a technical backstop. The first pilot project was in Hlaingtharyar of Yangon and later expanded to Kengtung of Shan East. Community-based paralegals were deployed to carry out daily activities on the ground for both projects.

Paralegal model is quite new in Myanmar but it has many potentials to effectively empower local communities whom were suppressed for many decades. Therefore, he volunteered in Myanmar National Paralegal Network ever since 2016 and still facilitating not only as a coordinator but national focal for regional network as well.

Maung Maung Thein Pe

Chairman

He established his own company, and operated the logging services from 1989 to 1996. He has acquired bids as a timber representative for Indian, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China s’ Companies, in Myanmar timber Enterprise from 1997 to 2000. Since 2001, he has been working on environmental conservation. In 2006, after he established an environmental conservation NGO for, setting up of Community Forestry, reforestation, and conservation of mangroves and forests. He has been a Chairman of the Environmental Conservation Working Group at Myanmar National NGO Network, which was set up in 2008, and he has worked there for four years.

In 2009, he collaborated with the Faculty of Fisheries of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, to conduct Freshwater fisheries research in five Southeast Asian countries. Since 2010, he has been working with the Braveheart Foundation for, the ethnic rights and regional development in cooperation with the Ministers of Ethnic Affairs, ethnic customary land ownership right, legal services of vacant land law, awareness of Farmland law, and activities for the child rights.

Since 2016, he has served as a Chairman of the Braveheart Foundation for Civil Rights. From 2017 to now, he is a national level member of the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade -voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) which is cooperated with the Government of Myanmar and the European Union, and is also working as a Team Leader in (FLEGT-VPA), Yangon Region.

Yee Mar Thin

Paralegal

Yee Mar Thin works as a paralegal and lives in Shwe Lin Pan, Hlaingtharyar Township. There are still many citizens who do not understand 1982 Citizenship Law of Myanmar. Although she received B.Sc. (Phys), she joined Braveheart in 2018 and involves in legal empowerment for marginalized community especially in assisting civil documentation. She is eager to increase community awareness on the importance of citizenship. She wants to be a good paralegal.

Thandar Win

Paralegal

Thandar Win has experience in child protection program of Myitta Yin Khun from 2009 to 2010. In 2018, she joined Braveheart Foundation working as a paralegal. She assists undocumented people to access civil documents. In addition, she raises awareness on citizenship right, helps in document collection and accompanies clients to immigration office.

Thin Thin Khaing

Paralegal

Thin Thin Khaing received a BA Degree in Business Management in 2005, born in Magway region. She worked as a volunteer in MMA of Mental Health Project and Action-Aid Myanmar before she joined Braveheart as a paralegal in 2018. She loves her profession as she has an opportunity to learn about citizenship and she can apply her knowledge and skill for community benefits.

Amy Tun

Paralegal

Amy Tun lives in Hlaingtharyar Township. She is a third year student of Chemistry and a member of the national paralegal Network which is an importance of civil documentation for everyone. Now she is a paralegal in Braveheart Foundation. She wants to support community in raising awareness of citizenship. She has been working in social development and experienced in community development. She participated in World Vision Myanmar as a Community Base Organizer from 2014 to 2016. She also worked in Equality Myanmar Office as a Community Organizer from 2017 to 2018 and she involved in Tdh-L Hlaingtharyar office as a Community Mobilizer from 2018 to 201.She loves her job. She believes that she will be more familiar the citizenship working group by working as a paralegal.

Dee Na

Paralegal

Ma Dee Na is a Paralegal, who is a Lahu ethnic, lives in Naung Voe Kao village, Mong Zem group, Kengtung Township. She was a health volunteer at the World Vision Project and has done a lot of health education in the village. She is an expert in knowledge sharing as well. In July 2018, she joined the Braveheart Foundation. Regarding her experiences, most of the Lahu ethnic people from the hilly area, do not realize the importance of the citizenship card. Therefore, she wants to help the Lahu people by sharing the knowledge for the importance of citizenship documents as much as she can. And she also wants to be a good Paralegal.

Charles Shepherd

Paralegal

Charles Shepherd is a Lahu ethnic, living in Poon Pin village, which is about 10 miles away from Kengtung Township. He is a final year student, majoring in Geography. According to his best of knowledge as a native ethnic, most of the villagers are working on the China-Myanmar border, and they are exploited and victims of human trafficking as they don’t have citizenship card. He joined the Braveheart Foundation, which is working for the citizenship, as a Paralegal in July 2018, because he thought it would help the local community to obtain their citizenship documents. He wants to become one who gives awareness raising about citizenship rights and help for the application process in Lahu villages.