Due to these unprecedented times due to Covid-19 Sanon Training Restaurant have been closed since March 2020.

The class of 2020 will not be taking place and our 2019 students have had their training suspended until Sanon reopens in 2021. Restaurant staff has been furloughed and students returned home. We have continued to support our students by providing them and their families money every month ensuring they have sufficient to buy rice and oil to sustain their families.

Our volunteers also had to return home to their countries. However it will be a new beginning also for Sanon Training Restaurant going forward and working within the government guidelines to ensure our customers and staff are safe at all times within the restaurant environment, when it reopens in 2021.

Restaurant manager Lim has returned from Yangon and has been busyworking on maintenance work at the restaurant and its grounds, refreshing the garden furniture, making the vital changes to seating and working arrangements in line with the local government guidance and eagerly waiting for approval so Sanon Training Restaurant can reopen. What does that mean for Sanon? An uncertain future but one we hope to be able to resume and continue to work towards our pledge of training disadvantaged students. We aim to continue with our mission of changing lives and building futures for Myanmar youth.

We at Sanon are have plans afoot and are keen to ensure a safe return for our students to allow them to resume their training and English language tuition.

September 2020