Q-1. How Eden Centre was established?

Before the year 2000 there was no service center for both physical and intellectual children with disabilities in the country like other country. Only a ‘School for Disabled Children (SDC)’, mainly for intellectual disabilities, which is run by the ‘Department of Social Welfare (DSW). When the founder is working at Spastic Children Association of Penang, Malaysia as a physiotherapist he was told by a friend of him, who is established a residential center for person with disabilities, ‘Eden Handicap Service Centre, Penang’, that “it is a call for you to go back to your country and start this mercy ministry”. The founder replies him that “it is a good idea, I come here to earn money to take care for my wife and two kids back in my country, may be somebody will do it. Now, you are the one who told me to go back to my country and start disability ministry. If it is GOD who want me to do, HE will directly tell to me”.

After working at Malaysia for one year Tha Uke got a better job at ‘St. Luke’s Hospital for the Elderly, Singapore’ as a physiotherapist and work at another two years there. After living separately with his family for nearly three years Tha Uke has taken a leave and went back to Myanmar to visit his family. His daughter has already grown up and enjoy family life fully and taste the blessing of fatherhood. After two weeks together with family it is a time to go back to Singapore to work and earn money for living.

After understanding the parent’s love towards own kids personally the LORD allow him to hear HIS calling to start caring mercy ministry for children with disabilities back in Myanmar through a dream. After hearing that calling Tha Uke has experience a peace in his heart and decided to come back to his mother country without knowing what to do but only firmly believed that GOD, his Father, will never fail. Tha Uke comes back to Myanmar in August 1998 and settle to live at Yangon with his family, they pray together for nearly two years for the guidance of GOD. He met with Ms. Lilian Gyi, a special education teacher, and start learning about children with disabilities in Myanmar slowly.

Tha Uke starts to volunteer to provide physiotherapy services to some physical children with disabilities and on 18th April, 2000 the LORD open a door to have own day care center, establish jointly with Ms. Lilian Gyi and family at Yangon.  

Q-2. Who is Eden Centre for Disabled Children?

Eden Centre for Disabled Children (ECDC) mission is to serve children with physical and intellectual disabilities with love, as a charity organization, and disseminate social model of disability. ECDC is a mercy ministry, to introduce the love of GOD to children with disabilities and their family members through its action of love. These actions of love, services, include special education service, conductive education service, Inclusive education service, rehabilitation service, social care service by dedicated persons and also equip, care giver training, parent of children with disabilities so that they can maximize the potential of their child and enjoy their family well-being.

Equipping parent of special child, “Family-Based Education (FBE) Program Approach” is an innovation of Eden Centre to reach out parent and children with disabilities throughout the country, where majority are impossible to access necessary services from skill personnel at service provision schools or centers.

Q-3. What kind of services for children with disabilities are available at Eden Centre?

In Eden Day Care Centre we admit children with physical and intellectual disabled children, under 18 years, and provide the following services according to their needs. These main services include: -

· Special Education by trained special education teachers

· Conductive Education by trained special education teacher, physiotherapist and social worker

· Rehabilitation by qualified physiotherapist

· Social care service by social workers and

· Music Therapy, Hydrotherapy, Disabled Sport, were also provided by some experienced volunteers

Additional services such as diet supplement, excursion, pre-vocational session, online service, home visit, compassionate support, referral services and providing mobility equipment, etc. are also provided.

Q-4. How Eden operates to reach set goals?

Eden always respects and value ‘FREE WILL’ of each individual as GOD value it (salvation is not by force). Eden Centre is a space or a place where love can practice or experience or share through providing necessary services for children with disabilities and interact each other. Our focus is to respond the demand or needs of children with disabilities, and our compassion and professionalism reflect our faith.

We help children with disabilities to access their fundamental rights, such as right to education and various services, right to play and fellowship with peer, right to express their emotion and feelings, etc. as much as possible. All activities are rendered based on Christian values and seeks mutual understanding with people of all faiths.

Q.5. How schedule for the students?

As we have our own limitation of infrastructure for student with disabilities, only ten class rooms and two therapy rooms, we cannot accommodate more than 100 students at the same time. To benefit more needy children, we split the students into four group, namely morning and evening session, those who come two days per weeks and three days per week session, etc. and also online service as well. In this 2025-26 academic year more than 350 students were registered as student.  

Q.6. What are the requirements for admission at Eden center as a student?

As long as a child is special need s/he is qualify to admit at Eden Day Care if the vacancy is there. ECDC accept all children with physical and intellectual disabilities irrespective of race, religious, gender, class, ethnicity, language, color, etc.

For admission as student a child’s medical record together with doctor referral letter, birth certificate, a copy of house hold registration, photo are required for record and documentation purposes.

Q-7. How do you get the financial to run the organization?

As a charity organization ECDC is totally depend up on donation of likeminded people from all sort of walk of lives. The organization was not financially backed up by any faith-based group, endorsement fund, government support, or a long-time individual sponsor, etc.

To access necessary services at Eden Centre some children with disabilities got regular financial sponsor. Some individual donor occasionally donates and support the charity work, receiving admin cost from some projects implemented by the organization, fundraising activities of our staff, and selling our services and training to other stakeholders, etc. are our source of income to run the organization till today. 

Q-8. Is evangelism being part of the organization mission?

As Eden Centre was established by local dedicate persons to response a calling from the LORD, we are serving the LORD through serving the needy in action, a mercy ministry. 

Q-9. What are the uniqueness of Eden Centre? 

Some uniqueness of Eden Centre for Disabled Children are: 

• A charity organization where services are free of charge.
• A place where anybody can contribute in as many ways as possible
• Services are provided by qualified professional, experiences skill staff
• Disseminate ‘Social Model of Disability’ and promote awareness of Inclusive Education
• Published disability related resources, translation, book, book-let, brochures and research
• Actively participate for the development of disability sector in Myanmar
• Since the beginning more than 10% of the organization staff are person with disabilities
• Always try to respond the demand regards to disability field and
• Innovate “Family-Based Education (FBE) Program Approach”

Q-10. What are the future plans of Eden Centre?

Eden Centre is always trying to provide necessary services to have well-being for both a child and the family. Future plan of Eden Centre are: 

• to find ways and means to reach out more children with disabilities and their families
• to extend both Day Care Centre and our innovated “Family-Based Education (FBE)” program
• to start “Training Centre” at Centre for Disability in Development (CDD), Hmawbi
• to start “Vocational Training” for our ex-students and other persons with disabilities
• to extend our “Inclusive Nursery” program by admitting more student

Q-11. Why children with disabilities should come to Eden Centre?

Children with Disabilities should come to Eden Centre for services because

• Eden Centre is a charity organization, free of charge for all services with love by staff
• There are various types of quality services delivered by related professionals, dedicated skill persons
• Eden Centre is not only service provision Centre for children with disabilities but also training Centre for both parent and staff
• Eden Centre aims to become happy family with children with disabilities
• Resourceful in terms of information, literature and human resources, etc.
• Always welcome and can sense family spirit
• Have good track record
• A Day Care Centre for all children with disabilities irrespective of race, gender, religious, color, class, language and treat equally with respect

Q-12. Why people should support Eden Centre?

Eden Centre would support because of

• A charity organization, not-for-profit
• Have a good track record
• Accountable, Transparency,
• Maintain a quality service for the student
• Status is stable, legal, and accessible