Our Team | BRAVEHEART

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.

Despite the extension of semi lockdowns in many townships, government departments and other services are resuming their normal operations. So is our Braveheart Foundation! Our services are resuming regularly to fulfill various demands from our constituencies.

Be strong and let’s face this pandemic in solidarity.

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.

Aung Myo Win

Database Officer

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 people.

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

Htut Aung

Paralegal

Htut Aung live in Hlaingtharyar Township. He is a second year student of Philosophy. He is a member of the National Paralegal Network. Now, he become a paralegal in Braveheart Foundation and aim for educate local communities about the importance of civil documents. He wants to support community in raising awareness of citizenship. He has been working in social development and so many experiences in community development.

He participated in Hlaingtharyar Youth Network, and worked at the YMCA as a community facilitator from 2014 to 2015. He also worked at the World Vision Myanmar as a field facilitator from 2015 to 2016, worked at MAM as a logistic in 2016, worked at FT. Ltd as a designer from 2016 to 2018, and participated in Action-Aid Myanmar team as a male role model and a paralegal from 2018 to 2019.

Nang San Seng

Paralegal Coordinator

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.

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.

Chan Kywe Kywe

Project Officer

Chan Kywe Kywe is a passionate project officer with over 4 years of experience in public administrative field and over 3 years of experience in travelling industry. She earned a degree in BA English back in 2011. In her copious free time, she enjoys reading books. Her long-term goal is to become a national-level researcher in social development field. She wants to use her untiring commitment and drive to bring more dignity and autonomy to the citizens of Myanmar.

Victor

Paralegal Coordinator

Born and raised in Kalay Township and originally Chin ethnic. Victor has been working in social development, experienced in community development and psychosocial support training. He participated in community development and civic empowerment course in Thailand and Burma Young Community Leaders Programmed in New Zealand. He had involved in leading some small grants projects for CSO capacity building in Kalay-kabawand Chin State.

He started working with Braveheart Foundation in 2019 where he closely coordinates with community based paralegals in Hlaingtharyar in accessing civil documentations for undocumented people.

Ye Lin Thu

Information Assistant

He was born in Thandwe, Rakhine State and originally Arakan Ethnic. Graduated from Dagon University with B.A(English). He joined to our Braveheart Foundation at 1^st January 2019 and working as Information Assistant until now. In addition, he is responsible to almost all online queries concern with Myanmar Citizenship. He searches knowledge and news of Myanmar citizenship and updated citizenship news of Neighboring Countries, share them back at Braveheart Foundation Facebook Page.

Khin Thawtar Soe

Paralegal

Khin Thawtar Soe is a second year student of Physics, interested in working as a paralegal and joined Braveheart in 2017. Her main responsibility is to help the orphan’s group for the civil documentation. By working as a paralegal, she became more understanding of citizenship rights. Moreover, she got her CSC in 2018 during her service in Braveheart.

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.

Tun Tun Win

Paralegal

Tun Tun Win is an Indian, born in Hlaingtharyar and has two children. He has been involved in Hlaingtharyar Youth Network (HYN) as a secretary in 2013 and a member of the board of directors in Township Development Network of Hlaingtharyar. In addition, he worked as a counselor in YMCA counseling center for three years. He started working in Braveheart Foundation as a paralegal in 2017.

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.

Yan Paing Tun

Paralegal

Yan Paing Tun involved in child protection and anti-human trafficking program of Hlaingtharyar social organizations in 2013. In 2019, he worked in Braveheart Foundation as a paralegal. He himself is a migrant and he wants to promote citizenship rights for migrants in the area. He is interested in Braveheart’s mission in providing services for civil documentation.

Simon Htin Kyaw

Paralegal

Simon Htin Kyaw lives in Hlaingtharyar. He is a Karen ethnicity and well understood of Karen migrant group in Hlaingyharyar. He has experience working in office administration with World Vision Myanmar. After Nargis Cyclone hit Myanmar 2008, he worked as a field supervisor in life-skills project of Karuna Myanmar Social Services(KMSS) at Delta regions for 8 years. In addition, he was involved in child development program of World Vision Myanmar for 5 years. Simon joined Braveheart in 2019. He wants to help the ethnic group for civil documentation.

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.

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.

Ah Moh

Paralegal

Ah Moh is working as a Paralegal, who is an Akha ethnic, lives in the Yang Lu village, Mong Zem group, Kengtung Township. She is a Third year student of specialization in Myanmar Language, at Kengtung University of Distance Education and joined Braveheart Foundation in July 2018. According to her experiences, there were still a lot of undocumented people in today’s generation as their parents did not recognize the importance of citizenship card, which is because people from the rural side, are far from the law. Therefore, she wants to help the community to aware the importance of citizenship and the details application process. She also wants to be a good Paralegal.