MoeMaKa Multimedia 2021 Budget Report to IRS and State in USA

		MoeMaKa Multimedia 2021 Budget Report to IRS and State in USA
No	Program	Detail Description	Amount
1	Humanitarian Support	To Provide financial & material assistance to democracy activists, human rights defenders, human rights lawyer and civil society organizers in Myanmar (Burma) and neignbouring countries such as in Thailand, India for their effort in strengthening democratic civil society in Burma, also known as Myanmar.	48,650.00
2	Community Awareness	Aware Myanmar (Burma) Culture & Community in USA - To Support, Promote & Organize Myanmar Burmese Community Events and Activities to raise awareness on Myanmar (Burma), Myanmar Burmese langauge & culture in Northern California and across USA.	48,626.00
3	Media Programming	Creativity, Reporting & Publishing Myanmar (Burma) - To suppot & organize Myanmar Burmese writers & reporters' works and report on Myanmar Burma & Myanmar Burmese Literature. To publish & present online multimedia website, social media and also on Short-Wave Radio Broadcast over Myanmar airwaves.	83,147.00
		Total Program Expenses	180,423.00

 

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MoeMaKa Books in Print published in Myanmar - Highlights (2019)

Here are the book covers that we published ...

2 Moemaka Magazines

5 Article Books

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Year 2018 - MoeMaKa Highlights

Year 2018 - MoeMaKa Highlights

Supporting, organizing Burmese community events and activities to raise awareness on Burma, Burmese language and culture in USA. The amount $5,000.00 from public donation was used for this program.

Creativity & Reporting Burma Project - supporting and organizing Burmese writers & reporters' works and reports on Burma & Burmese Literature. The amount $ 5000.00 from public donation is used for this program.

Total of Donation 10,000 already distributed in Year 2018.

Published Monthly Magazine in Burma - MoeMaKa Monthly Magazine - 8 publications.
Compiled and Published Books & Media written by MoeMaKa Contributors - 10 Publications.

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Year 2017 - MoeMaKa Highlights

Supporting, organizing Burmese community events and activities to raise awareness on Burma, Burmese language and culture in USA. The amount $5,300.00 from public donation was used for this program.

Creativity & Reporting Burma Project - supporting and organizing Burmese writers & reporters' works and reports on Burma & Burmese Literature. The amount $ 11,841.00 from public donation is used for this program.

Total of Donation 17,141.00 already distributed in Year 2017.

Published Monthly Magazine in Burma - MoeMaKa Monthly Magazine - 12 publications.
Compiled and Published Books & Media written by MoeMaKa Contributors - 4 Publications.

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Year 2016 - Highlights

Supporting, organizing Burmese community events and activities to raise awareness on Burma, Burmese language and culture in USA.
The amount $4,148.00 from public donation was used for this program.

Creativity & Reporting Burma Project - supporting and organizing Burmese writers & reporters' works and reports on Burma & Burmese Literature.
The amount $ 20,000.00 from public donation is used for this program

Burmese Helping Burmese - Supporting Drinking Water Project with material and aid assistance to Drought Area in Burma.
The amount 28,000.00 from public donation was used for this program.

All total amount together - $ 52,148.00 was already distributed in year 2016.

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MoeMaKa Monthly Publication printed in year 2016

Magazines printed monthly in year 2016.

1000 copies each.

Donated to community based public libraries and community centers in Burma.

Distributed through Burmese book shops in Burma.

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Year 2011 Highlights

Year 2011 Highlights

1. Weekly Interview Program with U Win Tin: Since his release from prison, MoeMaKa kept in touch with the major opposition figure to report his view and perspective on Burma's issues. It has covered critical political campaigns of the Burmese democratic activists, such as the boycott on the 2010 Regime's election and on the continuing struggles of Burmese oppositions under the new government elected from Regime's sham 2010 election.

2. Media coverage on Aung San Suu Kyi: Since her release from her house arrest in November 2010, we have covered and reported news of her activity, speeches, and events. We were also given a valuable interview with her to explain our existence and progress. She has shown her agreement and support of the mission of MoeMaKa Burmese news group for the struggle for democracy and freedom of expression in Burma.

3. Media coverage and Raising Awareness on current community led campaign for Burma: Under the solidarity leadership of opposition leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi, U Tin Oo, and U Win Tin, the Burmese democratic community become mobilized again and started to raise funds and charities to support the Burmese political prisoners and their families. They also called for the release of all political prisoners inside Burma by signing the petition together with the leaders. The Burmese democratic community became actively involved in reforming the state with true federation, not like the state ran by the centralized regime backed by the dictatorial military leaders. MoeMaKa is continuing covering the situation and also help raising awareness of the issues towards the Burmese community.

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Year 2010 Highlights

Year 2010 Highlights 

1.      Media Coverage on Boycott 2010 Regime's Election:   We have continuously reported and covered boycott movements of the Burmese community and democratic opposition led by NLD on Burmese Regime’s 2010 Election. The whole international democratic community later regarded election as a sham election. MoeMaKa has done series of interviews with NLD leader U Win Tin of his opinion and his part with NLD struggle to lead the boycott movements.

2.      Media Coverage and Raising Charity Awareness on Natural Disaster Events inside Burma:   We have followed and presented news of fundraising events and relief works by the Burmese community to help Burmese victims suffering from natural disasters in Burma in 2010, which the Burmese regime ignored and neglected. Due to the lack of news coverage, Burmese community relied on news updates from MoeMaKa.

3.      Media Coverage on expelling Regime's Artists visiting USA; We also have reported and followed public protests and campaigns of Burmese Americans against the entertainment tours led by Burmese actress, Wyine Sue Khaing Thein who supports Burmese regime’s propagandas portraying Burmese democracy movements as terrorist and anarchy’s plots. Later the US Government revoked all the visas of Burmese tour group resulting in immediate return to Burma. It was encouraging news for Burmese democracy community.

4.      Media Coverage on Community Sponsored Social Service Award for Volunteers inside Burma;  We have continuously followed and informed the readers on the movements of  “Citizen of Burma Award”. Collective Burmese American communities from 15 cities organized this award movement. It was to honor the Burmese volunteer community leader inside Burma for his/her contribution and sacrifice. MoeMaKa has provided insightful news and update of the open voting process on their web site, which attracted Burmese from all over the world to vote for their most loved community volunteer or volunteer association. It was one of the major interests of Burmese community and it had highlighted awareness on charity spirit among Burmese community.

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Looking Back 2009 - MoeMaKa

Looking Back 2009 - MoeMaKa
In the year 2009 -

1. We have presented over one thousand of news and articles of the stories of Burmese people and events on our website

2. We published 2 books in Burmese language

a. Collection of Articles Honoring late “Taryar Min Wai” who was one well loved and respected contemporary poet and political activist of 88 generation students in Burma

b. How to prose Burmese Poems for Beginner by late Tin Moe – a rare book by a late contemporary great poet

3. We have a close-up photo coverage on trial of Aung San Suu Kyi by Burmese Regime at Insein Prison in Rangoon, May – August 2009 reported by the Rangoon Local Team and the Thailand Communication Team

4. We have not only published online news but also circulated our daily publication in email newsletter to ten of thousands of subscribers inside Burma where ISP operated by Burmese regime banned media sites run by exile media groups.

We raised 81375.00 US$ from general public donation and 15000.00 US$ from grant received from OSI-Burma Project. We used most of the grant to provide financial and material support to Burmese writers, artists and contributors of inside and out of Burma. The remaining financial resources were used to support the basic operation of MoeMaKa, publication of books and sponsoring / supporting community activity and event for empowering democratic civil society inside Burma.

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MoeMaKa in 2008 - Report

MoeMaKa in 2008 - Report

In 2008, with Public Funding – US$ 69,200 and Grant received – 15,000.00, MoeMaKa has extended its services and works in the following area, 1. MoeMaKa Online in English (http://moemaka.org), 2. MoeMaKa Audio & Video Archives (http://moemaka.net) , 3. MoeMaKa Burmese website conversion into Unicode 5.1 compliance, (http://moemaka.info), 4. Community Building and Interaction Works inside and outside Burma (detailed explained later).

1. Current Situation

MoeMaKa has established and maintained as one and only community based station providing Burmese literature and audio/video archives run by Burmese volunteers and professionals among other Burmese Internet portals where total of 25 individuals are not paid for their works.

In year 2008, MoeMaKa has reached 3,000 subscriptions (last year with 2000 members) of its online free newsletter service.

It is now reaching a bandwidth of 80 GB a month from 8000 over unique Internet service provider (ISP) servers. Now it is hosting on 3 separate ISP web servers to balance the load of demands from the audience as some of the readers have to come out from inside Burma through firewall and proxy. We also have created MoeMaKa Mirror Websites on Google's free blogger service and Word Press free blog site to tunnel the audience as backup.

It is not only running with the individual volunteers but also with groups and organization from different location across the globe as to prove the positive effort of the strong networking function of MoeMaKa's teamwork.

2. Current Basic Operation

1.      Bi-Weekly Internet Radio Programs

2.      Daily Online Publication and Updates

3.      Web-Casting of weekly Video News and Archives

4.      Weekly Online Publication of news and articles in English

5.      Archiving and Cataloging of digital and multimedia materials (books, CD, periodicals) for Online Library

6.      Presenting, Shipping and Posting of materials distributed from Online Catalog Ordering System

7.      General Office and Communication (Internet, phone, periodicals, books, CDs, DVDs, hardware and software upgrades, postal charge and such general expenses.)

8.      Monthly Newsletter Publication (PDF free download, subscription based print version or email online newsletter)

9.      Burmese Helping Burmese, Fund Raising and Charity Drive to help Burmese artists and activists inside Burma who are socially and politically at the disadvantage by the suppression and repression of the Burmese junta and also to raise the awareness, moral support towards the democratic civil society of Burma

10.  Empowering community inside and outside Burma encouraging Burmese people to participate in democratic civil society activities such as Burmese literary talk, Burmese Community Discussion and Burmese Cultural Performances

3.                  Achievements in the year 2008  

1.      MoeMaKa in English – Setup http://MoeMaKa.org website in English format to present translated news and articles from Burmese language. (Part of US$ 7,900.00 – Internet Service Expenses)

2.      MoeMaKa Audio & Video Archives – Setup http://MoeMaKa.net website to house and present archives of audio and videos related to activity and event of Burmese intellects and artists from inside and outside Burma. (Part of US$ 7,900.00 – Internet Service Expenses)

3.      MoeMaKa in Burmese language compliance with Unicode 5.1 http://MoeMaKa.info – Setup and initialize the conversion process of data in Burmese articles from existing database into Unicode 5.1 compliance data format which will soon be universally available on future online community of open source and open OS. (Part of US$ 7,900.00 – Internet Service Expenses)

4.      MoeMaKa in Word Press Community, http://moemaka.wordpress.com - a mirror web blog site for Burmese audience inside Burma as an alternative under the restricted and heavy censorship of the Burmese regime. (Part of US$ 7,900.00 – Internet Service Expenses)

5.      Participating with Burmese in San Francisco Bay Area to co-sponsor "9th Annual Burmese Literary Talk" with 5 Burmese Writers living in USA (http://moemaka2008.blogspot.com) (Part of US$ 1,500.00 – MoeMaKa 5 Year Anniversary Meeting)

6.      Hosting 5th Anniversary of MoeMaKa, meeting with MoeMaKa Team and Burmese writers, contributors from inside and outside Burma. (Part of US$ 1,500.00 – MoeMaKa 5 Year Anniversary Meeting)

7.      Participating with Burmese in San Francisco Bay Area to arrange "Let's Sing Along with Mar Mar Aye", a Burmese cultural music show presenting Burmese classical music and songs to raise the awareness of Burmese culture and tradition in the international community.( http://marmaraye.blogspot.com ) (Part of US$ 7,900.00 – General Expenses)

8.      Raised US$ 20,000.00 from Burmese community outside of Burma to help and support Burmese victims from Cyclone Nargis which left hundred of thousands people homeless.

9.      Raised US$ 20,000.00 from Burmese community outside of Burma for MoeMaKa's initiated "Burmese Helping Burmese" to help and support Burmese activists, political prisoners, families and monks to comfort morally and financially to their everyday struggle of food, shelter and general assistance.

10.  Publication of Book, "Collection of Articles by U Thaung and his Friends", honors U Thaung aka Aung Bala, a great journalist and writer in exile who passed away in April 2008. ( US$ 3,000.00)

11.  Publication of Book, "Collection of Articles by U Win Tin and his Friends", honors U Win Tin who recently released from prison after serving 19 years of jail term by Burmese regime for his political belief and activity. (US$ 5,000.00)

12.  Distribution of Audio CD, "Collection of Songs by Mar Mar Aye in the year of 2007, 2008", where all songs encourage and honor the Burmese activists, political prisoners and Burmese monks under the oppression of the Burmese junta especially of 2007 Burma Saffron Revolution and 2008 Burma Nargis Disaster. (US$ 1,000.00)

13.  Extension and Establishment of MoeMaKa communication team and center in Thailand and Burma to communicate and speed up the process of gathering information, news and online web-casting activity. It also helps secure the channel to support and assist the contributors of MoeMaKa publication and operation. (US$ 2,000.00)

14.  Raised and spent US$ 11800.00 from the grant received to pay the contributor fees, advisory fees, and honorariums fees to writers, artists and professionals from inside and outside Burma for their works, advice and contribution.

15.  Initiated and maintain weekly and monthly group discussion and gathering among team members with the surrounding community to build friendly atmospheres to talk, discuss and arrange program for the better democratic civil society of Burmese people. (Part of US$ 7,900.00 – General Expenses)

16.  In 2008, October, MoeMaKa has been finally recognized from the IRS as 501 © 3, charitable non profit organization compliance with federal rules and regulation of the United States.

 

4.                  Other Operation of MoeMaKa

  Online Catalog Ordering System – http://shop.moemakacom . Present and help distribute 300 over books, audio and video products (grown from 100 last year). Almost 50% of the catalogs offer free download or free distribution.

Online Library – http://moemaka.net/library / http://sites.google.com/site/moemaka2008  http://www.scribd.com/group/70110-moemaka-burmese-archives ) List and archive most of all the books, digital materials and references purchased with MoeMaKa's fund and it is now reaching over 1000 records. You can download the PDF file from our website to look into the list of our books archive and also the books that are for sale too. http://moemaka.net/shop/redirect.php?action=banner&goto=3

 IT/IS Team – Setup and maintain daily operation of web hosting and content updating.

We are still hosting the following websites for the Burmese community;

http://aappb.org (Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – Burma),

http://mywebdigest.net, http://ezine.mywebdiges.tnet ,  (Myanmar Burmese Web Directory and Magazine Digest),

International Burmese Monks Organization, http://sasanamoli.org,

Palaung Women Organization at Thai Burma border, http://palaungwomen.org ,

Yaung Chi Oo, Burmese Migrant Workers Association to protect their rights and community, http://yaungchioo.org ,

http://zarganar.com , presenting works and reflection of banned and censored Burmese artists and media professionals inside Burma,

http://marmaraye.blogspot.com , presenting works, event and activities of Burmese classic singer and artist, Mar Mar Aye and her foundation, Mar Mar Aye Foundation,

http://childaidmyanmar.org , Building and maintaining website for Burmese Charity Drive run by Burmese monks to support Burmese orphans left by the Cyclone Nargis

 Production & Publication Team has coordinated works with other media group to share resources and assist on each other operation when requested such as – BIT Team (India) (Burmese Information Technology Team aka Myanmar ISP Team) on Burmese font and Burmese content archival support (since 2006), - Radio Lovers Group (Australia) on sharing radio and audio program for weekly radio presentation (since 2006).

 MoeMaKa (Info Comm) Team in Rangoon - After the 09 / 07 (September crackdown in Burma), Moemaka has managed to regroup not only outside Burma but also inside Burma to reorganize our priority and operation to enhance and advance the mission and vision of MoeMaKa organization. It successfully established the team member and group inside Burma especially in Rangoon to support and to report the news and features of Burma and at the same time to carry on the social support network of "Burmese Helping Burma" charity drive.

5.      MoeMaKa in the News

1.      After 2007 Burma Saffron Revolution, MoeMaKa is being recognized among Burmese media outside Burma as one of the volunteer news group with citizen journalists and active web bloggers where it produces photos and coverage representing the voice and reflection of Burmese people struggling for freedom and democracy in Burma. Some of the news and articles are collectively selected by Burmese reporters in Burmese radio programs such as RFA (USA) and DVB (Norway) to air back into Burma for broader Burmese radio audience.

2.      In August 2008, at the 20th anniversary of Burmese People Uprising of 8888, bay area local newspaper, Contra Costa Times, has published an interview article of MoeMaKa news group as an offspring of Burmese democratic struggle under the repressive regime.

3.      In December 10th 2008, on UN Human Rights Day event at White House with the US President, a representative from MoeMaKa team was invited as new technology media user or web blogger to represent the Burmese democratic bloggers for the Burmese struggle for human rights and freedom of press and expression together with other fellows bloggers from such repressive counties as Iran, Egypt, Cuba, China, Belarus and Venezuela.

6.      All the credits go to volunteer works and the charity of the contributors

1.      Without the help, support, advice and contribution of the MoeMaKa volunteer team of 25 people, MoeMaKa Contributing Writers and Artists of 50 people and more from inside and outside Burma, of the collective donors and their charitable donations from more than one hundred of Burmese and non-Burmese around the World and also of the continuous generous grant from the OSI-Burma project initiative, MoeMaKa would not be as successful and recognized as it is now today.

2.      Therefore for all the continuous building of MoeMaKa news group and for the establishment as a building stone for the Burmese democratic civil society, all the credit, acknowledgment and gratitude go to all the volunteers and charity of all contributors.

3.      The detailed income and expenses are attached for reference and reporting purpose.

7.      How the sponsorship of the granters be credited

1.      All the Granter's representing links are now displayed at the front page of our MoeMaKa website as "Friends of MoeMaKa".

2.      At least 10 copies of publication and production materials will be sent to all Granters' organization address and if possible, more copies could be able to obtain upon request.

3.      All the materials produced from MoeMaKa with the fund from granters shall be “copy right free” to all the Granters i.e. they are free to present or represent in their works or reports or publications.

8.  Conclusion and Resolution

            In the year of 2009, MoeMaKa has promised with more hard works and commitment towards building democratic civil society by presenting wide variety of news and articles covering Burmese who are constantly struggling for freedom of press and democracy in Burma and by involving with Burmese community in the activity and event to raise the awareness of Burmese democracy struggle among the Burmese people.

            We will be looking forward to team up with more volunteer team players and raise more fund and charity to provide assistance and support Burmese writers, artists, contributors and to do extension and addition of MoeMaKa’s operation facility inside Burma and Thailand.

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Year 2007 And MoeMaKa

Year 2007 And MoeMaKa

By Maung Yit, Dec 30th 2007



Departments supporting MoeMaKa’s main operation have done following tasks;

Online Catalog Ordering System – http://shop.moemaka.com . Present and help distribute 300 over books, audio and video products (grown from 100 last year). Almost 50% of the catalogs offer free download or free distribution.

Online Library – http://moemaka.net/library / http://sites.google.com/site/moemaka2008 ) List and archive most of all the books, digital materials and references purchased with MoeMaKa’s fund and it is now reaching over 1000 records. You can download the PDF file from our website to look into the list of our books archive and also the books that are for sale too. http://moemaka.net/shop/redirect.php?action=banner&goto=3
IT/IS Team – Setup and maintain daily operation of web hosting and content updating.

We are still hosting the following websites for the Burmese community; http://aappb.org (Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – Burma), http://mywebdigest.net (Myanmar Burmese Web Directory and Magazine Digest). In addition to that we setup and maintained the following in the year 2007, International Burmese Monks Organization, http://sasanamoli.org, Palaung Women Organization at Thai Burma border,http://palaungwomen.org , Yaung Chi Oo, Burmese Migrant Workers Association to protect their rights and community, http://yaungchioo.org , http://zarganar.com , presenting works and reflection of banned and censored Burmese artists and media professionals inside Burma.

Production & Publication Team has coordinated works with other media group to share resources and assist on each other operation when requested such as – BIT Team (India) (Burmese Information Technology Team) on Burmese font and Burmese content archival support (since 2006), – Radio Lovers Group (Australia) on sharing radio and audio program for weekly radio presentation (since 2006).

Burmese Helping Burmese – “Social Network and Fund Raising Charity Drive” among the Burmese outside Burma to help and support the grass root Burmese community in Burma who are actively working towards democratic civil society inside Burma, which is established soon after the 2007 September crackdown.

It raised total of nearly US$ 70,000.00 in 2007, which is now helping the following social, political and religious groups –

1. Political Prisoners and their family to assist their prison visit

2. Burmese Monks and Monasteries to support and rebuild back their daily operation after being brutally cracked down after September 2007.

3. Burmese Activists and their families’ members to sustain and to carry on their task and to support their social needs while building the democratic civil society

4. Burmese artists, journalist and media professional inside Burma with equipments, royalty and communication resources to carry on their reporting works and reaching out to us of the status and the struggle for democracy in Burma as monitoring and supporting team

MoeMaKa Team in Rangoon – After the 09 / 07 (September crackdown in Burma), Moemaka has managed to regroup not only outside Burma but also inside Burma to reorganize our priority and operation to enhance and advance the mission and vision of MoeMaKa organization. It successfully established the team member and group inside Burma especially in Rangoon to support and to report the news and features of Burma and at the same time to carry on the social support network of “Burmese Helping Burma” charity drive.

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Burmese Community and MoeMaKa in 2007

Burmese Community and MoeMaKa in 2007
by Maung YIT • October 11, 2007 •

MoeMaKa’s regular programs and articles on contemporary issues of Burma written by some artists and writers who are still inside Burma with hidden pen names ( It is considered most significant because MoeMaKa became trusted and credible by the Burmese audience and also by the artists and writers who are under the heavy censorship of military junta)

MoeMaKa’s Special Program – Letters from the Readers – which is sorely contributed by the Burmese audience inside Burma and overseas, expressing of their opinions and thoughts.

2007 June – MoeMaKa on the Blog (http://moemaka.blogspot.com ) – to overcome and by pass the internet censorship and filtering by the Burmese junta, MoeMaKa has setup its blog site with the same content from MoeMaKa as a backup and the easy assess for the audience inside Burma. It played significant part in posting and publishing news and photos of 2007 August and September protests and crackdown in most convenient and fastest way possible to reach the outside world.

2007 July – Remembering Poet Tin Moe – 6 Month Anniversary Literary Talk – with his fellow writers and artists, U Thaung, U Win Pe, Maung Swan Yi and Mar Mar Aye at the bay area in California with 400 Burmese audience to raise awareness on Burmese literature and Burmese issue on freedom of press and expression in Burma.

2007 August – Presenting MoeMaKa’s Video Archives on YouTube.com – starting with the uploading of video archive of the event of 19th year anniversary of Burma 8-8-88 People Uprising celebrated by 1988 student-activist group in Rangoon, Burma and followed by photo, video archive and presentation of news and event on Burma, it is considered milestone for us because through YouTube, more and more audience are drawn to MoeMaKa and we are in more visible position to raise the awareness on the struggle of freedom of press and human rights in Burma.

2007 August, September – Saffron Revolution related photos and news updates – with the volunteer team members of MoeMaKa inside Burma, we have significantly contributed and distributed day to day, hour to hour updates of the incidents and protests of Burmese activists, public, monks and the crackdown of the Burmese junta through the blog of MoeMaKa and they were instantly picked up and broadcasted on international main stream media such as like on CNN.

The best obvious photo example is – photos shot at the early morning raid by the Burmese army at Burmese monastery called Ngwe Kyar Yan in Rangoon, Burma.

We let every news agency to use them for free and the impact and the concern from the international readers on Burma was found to be very much important as it caused the tremendous pressure and reaction by the UN, US and EU to Burmese junta to stop the crackdown and stand down the human rights abuse on Burmese people.

2007 October – Technical Support to Sasanamoli, International Buddhist Monks Organization(http://www.sasanamoli.org) – which was formed after the crackdown on the monks by the Burmese junta inside Burma in the Saffron revolution to help and protect the monks and the freedom of religion in Burma. MoeMaKa also assist the Sasanamoli senior monk, U Kovida and his trip to west coast of USA to accept the honorary degree from the University of San Francisco to honor the Burmese monks inside Burma.

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MoeMaKa Report 2006

MoeMaKa Report 2006

Name:             MoeMaKa Radio & Multimedia Group

Subject:          Narative Report 2006

Atten:             OSI Burma Project, All Individual Contributors

Type:              Final

Date:               04/23/07

Table of Content

1. Looking Back 2006 – Initial steps and Achievements
2. Plan Ahead Year 2007 – Building up capacity and beyond
3. Major setback and boundary MoeMaKa facing
4. MoeMaKa Still Looking Forward

Current Situation

            MoeMaKa has established and maintained as one and only community based station providing Burmese literature and audio/video archives run by Burmese volunteers and professionals among other Burmese Internet portals.

            That is why within the year 2006, MoeMaKa has reached 1,600 subscriptions of its online free newsletter service. It is now reaching a bandwidth of 80 GB a month from 8000 over unique Internet service provider (ISP) servers. Despite blocking from the Burmese military regime's Internet censorship authority, we can see increasing numbers of Burmese Internet users from inside Burma visiting MoeMaKa through free proxy servers too. And after launching monthly newsletter publication, it has growing number of print subscription up to 500 orders.

            It is not only running with the individual volunteers but also with groups and organization from different location across the globe as to prove the positive effort of the strong networking function of MoeMaKa's teamwork.

How's self-funding used and affected for MoeMaKa

With self-funding, we are doing our basic services operational in the year 2006. They are itemized as follows;

1.      Bi-Weekly Radio Program Production

2.      Daily Online Publication and Updates (electronic news & literary journal)

3.      Archiving and Cataloging of digital and multimedia materials (books, CD, periodicals) for Online Library

4.      Presenting, Shipping and Posting of materials distributed from Online Catalog Ordering System

5.      General Office and Communication Cost (Internet, phone, periodicals, books, CDs, DVDs, hardware and software upgrades, postal charge and such general expenses.)

6.      Monthly Newsletter Publication (both PDF free download and subscription based print version)

7.      Awarding royalty fees to 10 writers who are mostly elderly and in need of health and medical care. (US $ 1000.00)

Production Highlights

We have produced and distributed following audio CD/DVD programs.

"Aung San Suu Kyi – Letter from Burma", the representation of    articles by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in audio CDs read and compiled by MoeMaKa's radio team.

"Khaing Mar Kyaw Zaw – Budding Flowers on the Borders", the representation of    articles by Khaing Mar Kyaw Zaw on the lives of displaced children at the Thai-Burma border in audio CDs read and compiled by MoeMaKa's radio team.

           

"Ludu Daw Ahmar – The Lives of Burmese in Upper Burma", the representation of    articles by Ludu Daw Ahmar on the rich and well-kept tradition of Burmese everyday life in audio CDs read and compiled by MoeMaKa's radio team.

"Zarganar - Four Fruits and The Colorful Burmese Anyeint", the DVD on the Burmese traditional and cultural show which was banned together with Zarganar, a well-known  Burmese artist and comedian who openly criticized the ruling military junta.

           

            Presentation Highlights        

We have reached significant recognition among the Burmese media professionals, Burmese artists and audience and following is the list that we considered ourselves some milestones;

MoeMaKa's Special Edition (Presentation) on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 61^th Birthday (19^th June 2006)

MoeMaKa's Special Edition (Presentation) on 18^th Anniversary of 8888 Burmese Democracy Uprising (8^th August 2006)

MoeMaka's Special Edition (Presentation) on 91t^h birthday of Ludu Daw AhMar – Burmese literary icon representing freedom of expression and struggle for democracy in Burma (29^th Nov 2006)

MoeMaKa in-house serials programs and articles by following Burmese artists in exile such as Tin Moe, Maung Swan Yi, Mar Mar Aye, Po Than (Ludu), Kye Mon U Thaung and Win Pe.

MoeMaKa's regular programs and articles on contemporary issues of Burma written by some artists and writers who are still inside Burma with hidden pen names ( It is considered most significant because MoeMaKa became trusted and credible by the Burmese audience and also by the artists and writers who are under the heavy censorship of military junta)

MoeMaKa's Special Program -  Letters from the Readers – which is sorely contributed by the Burmese audience inside Burma and overseas, expressing of their opinions and thoughts.

Grants Received

MoeMaKa has received the grant approval from OSI-Burma Project of 15,000 US$ for general fund and 5,000.00 for audio/video archive Separate Project. We do not receive further fund/grant from Prince Claus Fund, which we have expected 10,000 US$. However we still can manage to run our operation and production with the contribution from volunteer team members and from the Burmese community.

How grants used for MoeMaKa for the year 2006

1.      We have decided to maintain our basic operation within our budget managed from our own self-funding for this year 2006.

2.      Awarding advisory fees to our advisors and contributors. (US $ 5500.00)

3.      Providing material support for distributing 3 audio CDs mentioned above. (US $ 3000.00)

4.      Providing equipment storage and studio space rental. (US $ 4800.00)

5.      Purchasing 2 Notebook PCs and Upgrades. (US $ 1700.00)

6.      Traveling and Equipment Purchases related to Audio/Video Archive Separate Project. (US S 5000.00)

How the sponsorship of the granters be credited

1.      All the Granter's representing link are now displayed at the front page of our MoeMaKa website as "Friends of MoeMaKa".

2.      At least 10 copies of publication and production materials will be sent to all Granters' organization address and if possible, more copies could be able to obtain upon request.

3.      All the materials produced from MoeMaKa with the fund from granters shall be copy right free to all the Granters i.e they are free to present or represent in their works or reports or publications.

Other Achievements

           

            Workload

Other Departments supporting MoeMaKa's main operation have done following tasks;

Online Catalog Ordering System – http://shop.moemaka.net. Present and help distribute 100 over books, audio and video products. Almost 50% of the catalogs offer free download or free distribution.

Online Library – http://moemaka.net/library List and archive most of all the books, digital materials and references purchased with MoeMaKa's fund and it is now reaching almost 1000 records.

IT/IS Team – Setup and maintain daily operation of web hosting and content updating and also provide the back-end electronic documentation of MoeMaKa's operation with – http://moemaka.net/old-project. Provide hosting service to the following websites for the Burmese community; http://aappb.org (Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – Burma), http://mywebdigest.net (Myanmar Burmese Web Directory and Magazine Digest), http://mingalaronline.com (Myanmar Business and Community Directory) and  palaungwomen.org/ (Palaung Women Organization based in Thai-Burma border)

Production & Publication Team has coordinated works with other media group to share resources and assist on each other operation when requested such as – BIT Team (India) (Burmese Information Technology Team) on Burmese font and Burmese content archival support, - Radio Lovers Group (Australia) on sharing radio and audio program for weekly radio presentation.

In October 2006, MoeMaKa team had managed to host 3^rd Year Anniversary Mate Son Pwe (Gathering/Reunion) and Workshop with all interested advisors, team members, writers and audience from inside and outside Burma. We have established better understanding and interrelationship with the team members, contributors and audience.

 

            Manpower

Due to financial difficulty, some team members left MoeMaKa voluntarily letting other committed volunteer to step in to run the operation. However we have more recruitment of volunteers in the team, advisors and contributors.

The departed team members –

            Aung Din (Director)

            Khun Myo Nge (Officer, Production)

The existing team members –

Maung Yit (Director, IT/IS, Editors, Production, Operation)

Htain Linn (Officer, Editors, Production)

Zarny Win (Officer, Editors)

Chan Myay Ain (Officer, Operation)

                        The newly added team members –

Maung Maung Oo (Production)

Ottara Moon (Operation)

                        The existing advisors –

                                    Tin Moe (Poet in Exile)

                                    Maung Swan Yi (Critic in Exile)

                                    Mar Mar Aye (Artiste in Exile)

                                    Win Pe (Film Director, Writer and Artist in Exile)

                        Total Number of Contributors (Artist, Professionals and Donors)

                                    50 persons (estimate)

2.   Plan Ahead Year 2007 – Building up capacity and beyond

We are also planning to prepare and present "MoeMaKa in English" as MoeMaKa is to gain more audience not only with Burmese speakers but also with non-Burmese speakers to raise more awareness on building democratic civil society in Burma.

We have estimated self-funding and general fund of US$ 50,000.00 to run our basic day to day operation of MoeMaKa.

We have plan to setup new server and site design running with UTF-8 compliance web code which will house both English and Burmese character content in single web application. It will enable the Burmese audience inside Burma to browse our website seamlessly without any band width or technical delay.

As we have provided more detailed explanation in separate "Audio/ Visual Archive Project", our advisors, U Win Pe and Maung Swan Yi will be leading the project to collect more in-depth interview with senior Burmese intellectuals and artists abroad.

3.  Major setback and boundary MoeMaKa facing

1.      Up until now, MoeMaKa could not still be able to compensate the volunteer staffs for their valuable time and service. We still could not even employ a part time staff yet. Still, we have encouraged and requested them to continue their volunteer service and fund contribution to make our operation running so that the grant money could be able to spend on the more production of our works and on the royalty fees to the more needy Burmese writers and artists.

2.      In the long run, we have to prove that we can raise more funds from donor organizations to expand our operation, services and facility. We have to come up with more organized documentation and management order.

4.  MoeMaKa Still Looking Forward

We are deeply appreciated and obliged for the grant received. We would like to commit ourselves on making of MoeMaKa as a practical ground for building democratic civil society for the near future of Burma. We also would like to welcome more volunteers and support to make this institution a success as an example of Burmese communities inside and outside Burma to be more willing and daring to contribute towards democratic struggle of Burma independently.

Best Regards

Maung Maung Win

(Maung Yit)

On behalf of MoeMaKa Team

PO Bx 320207, San Francisco, CA 94132-0207, US. Phone – 415-595-1485

Attached:

Financial Report (Overall Cost and Expenses)

The List of MoeMaKa Award to 10 senior Burmese Writers inside Burma

MoeMaKa 3 Years Anniversary – Reunion Event & Workshop - Report

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