Off-grid Solutions Project
Myanmar activities overview
About 400 children participated in an essay contest
We want to give children the opportunity to cultivate their minds and to acquire the ability to write on their own. It was from this desire that we started the competition for children to write book reports based on the learning material "If You Could Have a Sunao Mind; What Konosuke Matsushita Wanted to Teach Junior High School Students," which is a book that serves as an entry into the Matsushita Philosophy of Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Panasonic. Approximately 10,000 copies were translated into the Myanmar language and distributed to around 1,600 locations including junior high and senior high schools in the Ayeyarwady Region. Among those, pieces of writing were collected from around 400 students from 50 Association for Rengein Tanjoji International Cooperation (ARTIC) assist schools and an awards ceremony was held at the ARTIC Human Resources Development Center. (March 2019)
Twelve pieces of writing were chosen as outstanding works and 103 people participated in an awards ceremony, including the winning children and their families and teachers, and the Deputy Director of the Ayeyarwady Region Education Office participated as a guest. Additionally, the learning materials for the contest, "If You Could Have a Sunao Mind" (authored by the PHP Institute) is a book that conveys the habit of mind for realizing success at work and a happy life, which Konosuke Matsushita, who was also a philosopher, spent his life to attain, in an easy-to-understand manner for children.
Also, on March 1, which was the day before the awards ceremony for the contest, a lecture in two parts was held by the PHP Institute to introduce Konosuke Matsushita's Management Philosophy to Japanese corporations operating in Myanmar. The first part saw about 50 participants from 33 corporations who are members of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Myanmar, and the second part saw 18 participants from small to medium enterprises and consulting firms. There was also an introduction of Panasonic's Off-grid Solutions Project in Myanmar.