"We don't want outstanding students to drop out of school just because they cannot afford it, and that is why we started helping them out," says U Sein Win Aung, chairman of the association.

The program was handed over to the association from the Su Xiuyu (Daw Zin Khine) Foundation, a Chinese education foundation that has been extending scholarships to students from Myanmar since 2013.

"Such assistance means a lot to me. I really appreciate it," says Ma Su Lin Naing, a fifth-year student at the Yangon University of Education, who has been granted scholarships since her first year.

The association has given assistance to 538 students since 2013.

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