About the Author

Graduated from ‘Rangoon Art and Sciences University (RASU)’ majoring in Botany and gained his B. Sc degree in 1981, gained a Diploma in Physiotherapy from the ‘Institute of Para-medical Sciences, Rangoon’ in 1985. He worked for seven years as a physiotherapist under the Ministry of Health from 1987 to 1994 at Pakokku and Falam Civil Hospital. He also worked for the ‘Spastic Children Association of Peneng, Malaysia’ as a Physiotherapist from July 1995 to June 1996 and during that time he volunteered at the ‘Eden Handicapped Service Centre, Penang’ twice a week, from that experience the sprit to serve disabled children in his country was conceived. He moved to Singapore in July 1996 and work as a Physiotherapist at ‘St. Luke’s Hospital for the Elderly’ until August 1998. During his stay in Singapore he became a member of ‘Singapore Physiotherapy Association' (SPA) in 1997. Frustrated at the inherent lack of disabled centres for the physically and intellectually disabled in Myanmar, he returned to Yangon to set up his own centre, and has remained since. Setting up the centre in April 2000, his hard work paid off and after running the centre for more than four years he won a ‘British Schevening Scholarship’ in 2004. He studied a one year post graduate course, ‘Disability Studies’ at the ‘University of Leeds' in the United Kingdom and gained his Masters degree in December 2005