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We support local initiatives and create community-based projects within Myanmar - all with the commo What are these projects about? Why this format? E.g.

We see our main task in informing and connecting. We don’t offer ready-made solutions – we develop the way to go together with the communities. We believe that the agents of change are the communities themselves and we try to find the current weak points together and think of solutions. After this step is concluded we become active: where we can provide knowledge we do (e.g. in form of explanation

s to visitors in several languages), where we can’t we connect to someone who can. Where material/financial assistance is needed we do our best to provide it for now – but at the same time we encourage the communities to become active themselves to find long-term strategies. The past years have been very difficult in the area and taking chances was often connected to taking risks. Also the resources are so limited that people just don’t dare to experiment – and that is where our creativity workshops will come in. Training and trying out will be at the core of all of our projects. At the moment the communities face many changes: after years of instability and conflict it seems now the silver lining has finally been reached. At the same time this is overwhelming for many. The communities are suddenly exposed to many groups showing interest: tour guides and tourists, religious missionaries and the government. They do not have a lot of experience in communicating with them and who those visitors are and what they exactly do here is unclear to them. The same for NGOs: they show up, which is generally seen as positive as they provide vaccinations. But nobody knows who exactly they are and if they will come back and when. Hand in Hand

The communities currently feel neglected and cannot rely on anyone. And we think they shouldn’t – primarily they should rely on themselves. And that is where we come in: Only when our advice and action are clearly requested we will get active. We see ourselves as community consultants: We do not want to overrule the interests of the communities. Together with them we want to find out what they are and empower them to follow their own ways. We do not want their dependency – that is why we only conduct projects in gaps that currently cannot be filled otherwise. We plan to close them so successfully that we can drop out as soon as possible – having developed those solutions together with the communities they also know now how to organize themselves for the next upcoming issue to solve. We try to establish our support as subtle as possible. the teacher will give the school-start-bags to the children herself without us being present. In this way they will not know the behind-the-scenes (the cliché of Foreigners coming and giving presents does not need more fuel and we are happy to help without being seen). At the same time we know that you as supporters and donors want to know what is happening: therefore the explanations in the villages to bridge the language barrier and enable the villagers to communicate what is currently going on. And for the same reason this website shall serve as an independent and reliable information platform. It is also a feedback loop for the improvement of our projects and approaches and the exchange with the community. Who are the Three MaMas? Ma Ma is Myanmar and means “elder sister”. In some European languages Mama means “mother”. A MaMa is a person who cares for others and is not afraid of taking on responsibility. We chose this name, as the three of us are all elder sisters and often adressed in this way (in Myanmar it is more common to adress people as “sister” and “brother” than using the first name). It also coincides with our quite present character trait of mamaness towards each other and others. We want to do something together and we want to do good. For that we throw in all we got, so far mostly a lot of goodwill, our individual strengths and a lot of mamaness of course. Angela - Mandalay Headquarter - Creative MaMa

Jella - Field Missions - Connecting MaMa

Sophia - Yangon Ambassadress - Representative MaMa

19/10/2019

Brand new for you: Wild Bee Honey!
Collected in the Kengtung mountain forests from wild bees. It is a wild flower honey of intense taste with herbal notes. Compared to our single flower honeys, this honey is less sweet and characterized by a richer texture (ideal as bread-spread).

You can get it at Wai Wai's Place (Sanchaung and Downtown locations) and on Saturday mornings at the Yangon Farmers Market!

17/10/2019

Some impressions of our last trip to Kengtung and the new hand-woven shawls we sourced there for you!
Available now at Wai Wai's Place in Sanchaung 😊

30/06/2018

Sunshine, lake and many rarities & their engaged producers awaiting you! Kokkoya Organics and many more!

23/06/2018

Love to see our customers feed backs! 😍
Find us at Yangon Farmers Market every Saturday! Follow the page for more detailed event updates! 😍

09/06/2018

Good morning! We're ready for you - Introducing our newest honey batch: Thumbai Flower! Come and try it!
Meet local farmers for breakfast & grocery shopping here until 12 noon 🍯🌱🌽🍓🍞

04/06/2018

So happy to see our Hapbee Wrap in use!! 😍
Want some fresh cut fruits but not the single-use plastic bag? Use our Hapbee Wrap to store them and help !

How do you use your beeswax wraps? Tag to let us know. 😉

Photo credit to our friend Alessandra. Thank you for sharing!

01/06/2018

A teacher with a vision & a school with a view! Visiting our school's village to see the finished new and chat with the teacher | with the start of rainy season quite a challenge - 30.59 km - 340 min - 541 m height difference in sunshine and rain | for @ Kyaingdôn, Shan State, Burma

26/05/2018

It's still not too hot to shop - two of the three Ma Mas are waiting for you 😉 come and try our honey and see how the beeswax wraps work! We are at the Yangon Farmers market till 11!

21/05/2018

Awesome range from Hla Day! With our new product beeswax wraps featured!

Do your part to stop using single use plastic. Let's try harder to be kind to our planet, and support local social businesses at the same time! 💚

With ChuChu, Kokkoya Organics, , and

16/05/2018

Our Lychee Flower Honey in this week's Kokkoya Organics CSA veggie bag!
Raw and unheated, our honey is packed with natural enzymes and pollen. It is one of the best healthy sweeteners for your daily use.
Clear in texture and sour-sweet in taste, this is my instant favourite! (even though I say that every time after tasting a new type of honey😆)

Hope Kokkoya's lucky CSA members will enjoy them as much as I do. 😋

20/04/2018

A Trio is complete! The new harvest from Lychee Flowers adds another very specific fresh, light taste with notes of citrus fruits to our honey variety | @ Yangon

29/03/2018

New stuff coming up! Collaboration is a winner! Thanks to Kokkoya Organics 🤗🤗🤗

Introducing beeswax wraps from Three MaMas Projects !

These work like cling wrap, keeping leftovers, or cut fruit/veg fresh in the fridge, or wrapping a sandwich for lunch or a picnic!

They are joining our sustainable packaging range to help us phase out rubber bands! Soon our members will get a bouquet of veggies in their reusable recycled plastic bags, sitting next to the cotton mushroom bags! 💪

Address

Kokkoya Organics, No. 48, Bawga 2 Street, Thuwunna, Thingangyun
Yangon

Telephone

09763362650

Website

http://threemamasprojects.com/

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