Meet the Makers: Carpenters July 21, 2024 In June, we visited one of our carpentry workshops near Bago in Burma, and made this video while we were there of one of our salad bowls coming to life....
Our favourite Burmese salads June 14, 2024 If you'd like to wow your guests, or perhaps just your own taste buds, here are two of my favourite Burmese salads. The recipes come from the Rangoon Sisters, and...
On the Shadow Tracks: a review June 07, 2024 This is a fearless, phenomenal book. Myanmar is a place where “history weigh[s] so heavily…that decades of it ha[ve] to be explained before any conversation with an outsider could even...
News from Yangon May 08, 2024 I was in Yangon last week to spend time with our new Country Manager, Yadanar. As always, it was an invaluable week plugging into the heart of the company and...
An Update from Burma: March 2024 March 19, 2024 We were in Yangon last week to catch up with our team and makers. I took Jenny, our new Operations Lead, who had never been to Burma before. It’s always...
Our Sustainability & Human-Rights Manifesto February 22, 2024 How do we support our makers within the most challenging of contexts? We have recently launched our HRDD & Environmental Sustainability Manifesto to walk you through it.
The Changing Seasons October 19, 2023 Oooooh it's getting chilly. Did you have socks on in bed last night? If you have a fire, presumably you had it stoked. This morning, there are smiley faces in...
Noodles July 05, 2023 When I first moved to Yangon in 2015, I worked in an office on one of the busiest streets in the heart of downtown. I lived about half a mile...
Magical Monsoon June 21, 2023 Yesterday morning it rained in London. Proper rain. Big, splashy, drenching rain. Rain that carried on plopping off the leaves for ages once it had stopped. And for 20 minutes,...
Yangon Post: Issue Four | 2022/2023 October 26, 2022 It's here and is jam-packed with stories about Burma, its people, history and food, along with the inside track on Kalinko, our homes and our makers.
An update from Burma May 11, 2022 This time last week Sophie touched down in Yangon for the first time in just over two years. She has now spent a very happy week back in a place she...
An Ode To Golden Hour April 13, 2022 You’ve probably heard us wax lyrical about Yangon’s light. We feel like we must do it some sort of poetic justice, because when you see it, it’s hard not to...