Our Team | BRAVEHEART

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.

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.

Ma Shwe Hla

Volunteer

My name is Shwe Hla and I am a volunteer of Braveheart Foundation. I was born at Pan Mai Kham village, Mong Larp Village Tract of Kengtung Township and my Ethnicity is Lahu. There were many Ethnic people who do not have legal identity and they do not know that legal identity is not priceless one. Local communities are far away from law, therefore, they did not make CSC cards. So, there are many people who do not have legal identity although they are Ethical people. In July 2020, I joined to Braveheart Foundation. Why I would like to join Breaveheart Foundation is only one answer, I want to support communities to know how to apply legal identity and the process of legal identity.

U Mg Mg

Volunteer

I am Mg Mg , lived in, Tin Htet Village , Kart Htaik Village Tract and my ethnicity is Akha . I serve as a volunteer for our village Social development group. Before I joined to Braveheart Foundation, I serve as a volunteer for our village. Also assist in applying CSC, newborn update and household list. And another reason for joining Braveheart is that I want to give awareness to the community for importance for legal documents.

U Mar Lar Khit

Volunteer

My name is Mar Lar Khit , who is a Lahu ethnic , lived in Wan Lin Village , Mong Kung Village Tract , Kengtung Township . In my Community . There were many Ethnic people who do not have legal identity and they do not know that legal identity is important one. I really would like to help the ethnics who do not know the applying process, the difficulties of languages barrier. So I joined the Braveheart foundation at a Volunteer at to help my community.

Thuya Nyein Chan

Volunteer

I am Thuya Nyein Chan , Inn Thar and Rakhine ethnic . I lived in Kyaing Ein , Kengtung Township. I am a second year student of specialization in Computer Major. Before I joined the Braveheart Foundation, I serve as a Volunteer for COVID-19 prevention Volunteer group, Kengtung. I really would like to help the people who do not know the applying process and the important of legal document.

Benjamin

Volunteer

My name is Benjamin. I was born at Ho Jin (1) village, Loi Mwe Village Tract , Kengtung Township and my ethnicity is Akha . I am working at Braveheart Foundation as a Volunteer, after joining a ToT Citizenship section by Braveheart. In ToT section, I came to know how to apply a CSC card. I really would like to help the ethnics who do not know the applying process, the difficulties of languages. And another reason for joining Braveheart is that I want to give awareness to Ethnic group for the differences between having legal documents and undocumented person.

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.

Ei July

Information Assistant

She was born in Insein Township, Yangon. After achieving a bachelor of laws and diploma in business law from the University of Yangon, she has been working as a higher-grade pleader (lawyer). She joined to our team( Brave Heart Foundation) on 1 st September 2020. In addition to that, she is a program assistant of Myanmar Lawyer Network Organization. More importantly, served as a humanitarian youth volunteer in the program of the UEHRD which provides humanitarian assistance to the conflict-affected communities in Rakhine State and undertook as a representative of Yangon for the public consultation talks of the third round of the 21st Century Panglong Conference. Now, She is responsible to almost all online queries concern with Myanmar Citizenship. She searches knowledge and news of Myanmar citizenship and updated citizenship news of Neighboring Countries, share them back at Braveheart Foundation Facebook Page.

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.

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.

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.

Maung Maung Thein Pe

Yadana

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Aung Myo Win

Hnin Wutt Yee

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Ei July

Khine Ran Thein

Khin Thawtar Soe

Yee Mar Thin

Tun Tun Win

Thandar Win

Thin Thin Khaing

Yan Paing Tun

Lwin Mar Oo

Simon

Amy Tun

Htut Aung

Nang San Seng

Dee Na

Charles Shepherd

Ah Sae

Do Phar

Stephen

Ben Ja Min

Thuya Nyein Chan

U Mar Lar Khit

U Mg Mg

Ma Shwe Hla