Suu Foundation (SF) is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation established in 2014 to support peacebuilding, education, health and human rights in Myanmar (Burma).
SF supports more than 50,000 beneficiaries through its programmes in healthcare, education and peacebuilding. We are the trusted partner of local organisations in states and regions across Myanmar, helping them to build their country anew as conflict continues following the military coup of 2021.
Our work is more essential than ever. More than five years on from the coup, targeted attacks against health and education facilities by the military junta have destroyed schools, hospitals and monasteries across the country. The courage and resilience of the people of Myanmar in the face of this onslaught is truly a story of hope, and Suu Foundation remains committed to working with a remarkable network of ethnic and civil society organisations, women and men who are creating new and community-based structures to meet the needs of Myanmar people.
Healthcare & Safeguarding
SF supports locally-led and inclusive community-based health organisations to provide essential, emergency, quality primary health care services, while ensuring the transition to a new decentralised and inclusive health system. This work is supported by the Government of Switzerland on a co-funding basis.
Central to this is maternal child health. Unintended and unsupported pregnancies in such dire conditions expose both women and newborns to significant risks, including life-threatening complications. Women are often forced to give birth in unsafe, unsanitary environments without skilled attendants, while newborns and children miss out on essential vaccinations and emergency care. Access to these services is therefore not simply a health intervention, but a core component of women's autonomy and dignity.
"In 2026, our ambition is to grow this provision and to integrate the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults through a public health approach that builds prevention, awareness, referral pathways and community accountability into health and community services."
Education
Suu Foundation promotes the education of Myanmar people through higher education and online learning. We work alongside trusted and experienced education partners in Myanmar's first national online higher education programme, offering scholarships, mentoring and mental health support in partnership with accredited international universities.
In a context where most children are denied education, our work is essential for Myanmar. Our partner Prospect Burma has been working in this space since 1987, and we are proud to work with them to enable individuals whose exceptional promise for Myanmar makes building their skills essential for the country's future.
Our ambitions for 2026 are to grow this opportunity with the new international partners we have secured, including in STEM subjects and professional qualifications in health sciences.
Peacebuilding
The Board of Suu Foundation has made peacebuilding the priority for 2026. The coup has caused massive destruction and destabilisation across Myanmar and its neighbours. Following the military's sham election, it is time to build the steps that enable a Myanmar-led, genuine peace process beginning with a cessation of violence and the release of all political prisoners.
With its many years of engagement with all partners across the country, Suu Foundation has a unique position from which to contribute to these efforts.
Our Core Principles
- We are committed to work with all the people of Myanmar without consideration of race and ethnicity.
- We trust the aspirations of the people of Myanmar for human dignity, and for freedom, democracy and inclusion, and we work with those who seek to advance this vision for their country.
- We want to be brave: our small size and the networks we have enable us to respond in agile ways to new circumstances.
- We want to focus our support on those communities who have been under-served by international grants in the past — we do not seek to replicate what others are doing, but to work in those places that are harder to reach.
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Registered 501(c)(3) · State of Delaware · Arcada, CA
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